All candidates have advisors but 300 foreign policy advisors alone? And he still doesn’t get it!
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 developments over the previous 24 hours and a set of questions, accompanied by suggested answers, that the candidate is likely to be asked about international relations during the day.
One recent Q. & A. asked, for example, whether Mr. Obama supported the decision by Iraq’s prime minister, Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, to include a timetable for American troop withdrawal in any new security agreements with the United States. The answer, provided to Mr. Obama with bullet points, was yes — or “a genuine opportunity,” as he put it in a speech on Iraq this week.
Behind the e-mail messages is a tight-knit group of aides supported by a huge 300-person foreign policy campaign bureaucracy, organized like a mini State Department, to assist a candidate whose limited national security experience remains a concern to many voters.
Those concerns are just going to increase as the spotlight continues to fixate on a candidate with no experience worth referencing – but back to the trainwreck he calls his foreign policy team:
Most of the core members of his team served in government during President Bill Clinton’s administration and by and large were junior to the advisers who worked on Mrs. Clinton’s campaign for the Democratic nomination. But they remain in charge within the campaign even as it takes on more senior figures from the Clinton era, like two former secretaries of state, Madeleine K. Albright and Warren Christopher, and are positioned to put their own stamp on the party’s foreign policy.
Like I said, total f–king trainwreck. It’s a mismanaged team stocked with an abundance of D-listers, led by a man with no experience of his own, that we absolutely can not trust with real policy decisions in a dangerous world.
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What happened to change? It sounds like he is going to put a lot of discredited Clinton appointees back into circulation!
You’re concerned about the foreign policy decisions an inexperienced candidate for the WH may make ?
When did this start ?
Anything informing that concern you could elaborate on ?
Perhaps cite some examples of poor foreign policy decisions you’ve witnessed and wouldn’t like to see repeated. Or not.
I suppose Obama should listen to the likes of a Col. Keneth Allard, who spews his nonsense on various right wing sites, and on Fox News.
Common sense will tell anyone with a brain that our efforts to find the perpetrators of 9-11 has been stymied by the disaster known as the Iraq War. Not to mention the vast sums of money that is bankrupting our once great nation in that failed effort.
What do you get with 300 morons? 300 bad ideas.
Barack Obama’s 300 Spartans (Advisors)?
It seems that you claim to be truthful and advocate CHANGE, and yet you enlist 300 soldiers, (advisors) to give advice on “as the world turns”, is quite alarming. If you sir, need 300 paid advisors to help you make a decision then you have not done your homework. You have managed to create your own independent congress of people that are burning thru your $5.00 internet donations like sand thru an hour glass. It alarms me that if THEY decide to place you in that office, your staff would double?
If your 300 were like the Spartans and lead by a leader like King Leonidas , of which you are not, then your 300 advisors are justified.
But in this case they are not.
You wish to be the President of the United States of America, and yet you still lie, you hire an outrageous staff of succubus’s that have their own interests, you do not attend to the poor, you are too concerned with keywords and false policy that fool those that really want CHANGE, you cannot stroll thru an American neighborhood unless you have your SS officers with you, not allowing Americans to protect you, you are so concerned that you will say the wrong thing, because you are not allowed to speak your own words, you have taken from the American people their hard earned $5.00 and given them nothing in return, you have no idea how big and deep the rabbit hole is that you have started to go down. The 300 Spartans defended their freedom and their Homeland, and you sir, are defending those that wish to rape the land and enslave Americans like Xeres attempted to do.
You are making policy on the run, without regard to the outcome, and we Americans will suffer for your mistakes and blunders.
These next four years will be yours, but the next four years after that will be for the American People.
CHANGE FOR AMERICA FOR AMERICANS!
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