Official Obama Blog – RSS FeedYou might have heard that John McCain selected a hockey mom — a woman, he’d want me to emphasize — as his VP candidate. That’s pretty much all the McCain camp wants you to know about her (in a futile attempt to attract certain women voters): she’s a mom, she’s a loving wife, she’s a [...]
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Conservative writer Andrew Sullivan today compares the VP selections of Joe Biden and Sarah Palin and put the choices into stark relief: One pick is by a man of judgment; the other is by a man of vanity. She may be a fine person, but she’s my age, she has zero Washington experience, and no [...]
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Let me be the first here at FPPfO to applaud Obama’s selection of Joe Biden as his running mate. I echo Ezra, Moira, and Mark (particularly the latter’s point about Biden’s active support for UN peacekeeping), but it is Steve Clemons I will quote here: Obama’s decision to get someone to bolster his foreign policy/national [...]
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In an op-ed in today’s Washington Post, renowned foreign policy commentator David Ignatius criticizes Sen. McCain’s tendency to give provocative speeches – which often turn out to be plain reckless – when discussing foreign policy issues. As Ignatius explains, zingers don’t make good foreign policy, however much Sen. McCain loves to deliver them. Relating this [...]
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Sen. McCain announced this week that two of his closest allies, Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), would travel to Georgia’s capital of Tbilisi on his behalf, after a similar journey by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. After months of accusing Sen. Obama of being too presidential – merely for meeting with world [...]
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Here’s something that John “I was in Vietman therefore I understand the soldiers better” McCain does not want voters to know: US troops deployed overseas have contributed to Sen. Obama’s campaign nearly six times as much as they have to McCain’s. That’s not even close. Current score: $60K to $10K. In fact, according to an [...]
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Sen. Obama delivered a statement today regarding the recent developments between Russia and Georgia. The Senator condemned Russia’s unjustified escalation of violence, called for Medvedev’s government to halt its bombing campaign, outlined the need for deep international involvement to solve the crisis and expressed a clear vision for the future of US relations with both [...]
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Former Rep. Jim Leach (R-IA) has crossed party lines to endorse Sen. Obama. Rep. Leach, who voted against authoriing military action in Iraq in 2002, has extensive experience in foreign policy issues, ranging from having served in the House International Relations Committee for more than two decades to his past as a foreign service officer. [...]
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Pretty chilling, but it reminds us about the stakes of the election this year.
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From Arianna: every day between now and November 4th voters should be reminded that:McCain has been among the most ardent supporters of the war in Iraq — the most disastrous foreign policy decision in American history.McCain falsely claims that, from the beginning of the war, he called on former Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld to resign. [...]
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