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Old 05-08-2008, 10:52 AM
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The change claim I can deal with. Because that's a loose term.

What I think is funny is any of these candidates claiming foreign policy experience. Over the course of this campaign we've lost Joe Biden and Bill Richardson- two people with real foreign policy experience and knowledge.
Now we have people squabbling over whether playing an alleged supporting role in a spouse's foreign negotiations, traveling abroad through childhood, or fighting as a soldier is "foreign policy experience".
It can be argued that any one of these things brings something extra to the White House... and I don't want to undermine those things...
But come on! None of them are actually going to be capable of making unilaterally the kinds of foreign policy decisions any more than the average candidate... which is fine, as that is what cabinets are for... and frankly I don't trust a president who thinks he/she can make unilateral foreign policy decisions (even Bush used a cabinet... albeit a cabinet stacked with neo-cons in group-think mode).
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