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Article: Foreign policy experience may be key in 2008 race
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- December 24, 2006
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AS we titillate ourselves with the possibility of a Barack Obama
presidential campaign, the one lingering question will be his
foreign policy experience. After almost a generation of being a
secondary consideration (remember, "It's the economy, stupid!"),
foreign policy has returned as a political priority for those
applying for the temporary job known as commander in-chief. And for
all of his unquestioned talents, Obama seems light on the
international relations scale.
It won't help Obama's case that President Bush's lack of foreign
policy experience prior to assuming the office, coupled with his
post 9/11 foreign policy decisions, could keep us in Iraq for
another decade. In spite of a ...