Obama And The Wall
During my recent travels to the Middle East, I found that although Obama fairs much better than his rival, early enthusiasm for his candidacy has been replaced by skepticism.
During my recent travels to the Middle East, I found that although Obama fairs much better than his rival, early enthusiasm for his candidacy has been replaced by skepticism.
Karen Kisslinger | Posted 07.24.2008 | Politics
The term Teflon John has been used to refer to the guy who just seems to float on down the campaign river after making mistakes that might topple, upset or even sink any other ship.
Michael Carmichael | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics
Three days into his international fact-finding mission, Obama had polished his foreign policy credentials considerably, and it did not take long for the effects of his bold initiatives to start hitting D.C.
Mayhill Fowler | Posted 07.23.2008 | Home
Berlin is girding itself for up to a million spectators. The security cost to the city is closing on $500,000. And some Germans are already preparing not to like what Obama has to say.
Washington Post | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics
Sen. Barack Obama, on his first and likely only overseas trip as the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, has remade the campaign's foreign po...
David Mixner | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics
No one can possibly justify one more American soldier being killed or one more American bombing raid after 2010. Clearly the Iraqi leaders feel they can govern effectively within two years without the current U.S. occupation.
Robert Creamer | Posted 07.21.2008 | Politics
It isn't just the American people who want us to leave Iraq. Now it's the U.S.-backed Prime Minister of Iraq. That leaves Bush, McCain and the neo cons as the only people still committed to this war.
Richard Klass | Posted 07.20.2008 | Politics
Obama has talked about new ways of thinking about military power and international relations and has more clearly seen world realities and possibilities for creative ways to deal with those realities.
Huffington Post | Posted 07.19.2008 | Politics
***CLICK HERE TO GET MORE VIDEO AND PHOTOS FROM OBAMA'S BERLIN TRIP*** ***UPDATE 7/24 AM*** Photos of Barack Obama in Berlin: U.S. Democratic presi...
New York Times | ELISABETH BUMILLER | Posted 07.17.2008 | Politics
Every day around 8 a.m., foreign policy aides at Senator Barack Obama's Chicago campaign headquarters send him two e-mails: a briefing on major world ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics
Is Barack Obama an extension of George W. Bush's foreign policy? Aides to John McCain made the argument today in a conference call meant to tout the S...
Michael Carmichael | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics
Obama's campaign is predicated on delivering a totally new foreign policy in pursuit of a new global image of America as one member of a community of nations, and perhaps, a first among equals.
CNN's Political Ticker | Posted 07.14.2008 | Politics
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama will be visiting the Palestinian Authority president in the West Bank next week, a Palestinian gov...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.13.2008 | Politics
On Sunday, aides to John McCain attacked Barack Obama on an area that the Illinois Democrat considers a foreign policy strength: the willingness to re...
Daniel Levy | Posted 07.11.2008 | Politics
So here was the McCain campaign accusing Obama of being insufficiently multilateral and pro-diplomacy in its foreign policy. It's hard to know where to begin.
Lionel Beehner | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics
Though Obama has been trashed about his reversal on Iraq, he is right on the biggest foreign policy question facing voters: Is Iraq the central front on the war on terror or is Afghanistan?
AFP | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday challenged the candidates vying for the US presidency to a debate and called for "fundamental change" ...
Eric Margolis | Posted 07.04.2008 | Politics
Barack Obama would win the international vote in a landslide. His emergence reinforces the widely held view abroad that the United States remains the world's most revolutionary, dynamic nation.
Daniel Lubetzky | Posted 07.04.2008 | Politics
Candidates for the US presidency will hopefully bear in mind that the world is watching, and their statements will not be forgotten after the dust settles.
OffTheBus Listening Post | Posted 07.02.2008 | Home
WHO: Ambassador Robert Gelbard and Senior Policy Advisor Dan Restrepo WHAT: Press conference call to discuss Barack Obama's Latin American polic...
Christine Escobar | Posted 06.30.2008 | Home
Obama's approach to the re-emerging threat of Al Qaeda marks a break with the failed Bush policy. Obama would draw in NATO and focus attention where it matters in the war on terror.
Stephen Zunes | Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics
Obama was able to defeat the once-formidable Hillary Clinton because he was perceived to be the better candidate among the increasingly progressive base of the Democratic Party.
AP | NEDRA PICKLER | Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Wednesday he would bring Osama bin Laden to justice in a way that wouldn't allo...
AP | NEDRA PICKLER | Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Wednesday he would bring Osama bin Laden to justice in a way that wouldn't allo...
Matthew Palevsky | Posted 06.15.2008 | Politics
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Jamal Dajani | Posted 07.25.2008 | Politics