Barack Obama and several of his top foreign policy advisors held a foreign policy forum on Nov. 27th, in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Panelists included:
Richard Danzig – Former secretary of the Navy under President Clinton
Tony Lake – National Security Advisor to President Clinton
Adm. John Hutson (USN Ret.) – Bow, NH resident; Dean of Franklin Pierce Law Center; former U.S. Navy Judge Advocate General and nationally-known expert on detention and interrogation
Samantha Power – Pulitzer Prize-winning author and renowned professor of human rights and foreign policy
Susan Rice – Former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs
and Senator Barack Obama.
Obama's foreign policy initiative is garnering support from many renowned experts on international relations. Indeed, it is one big quality Obama has that he is able to bring together distinctive people with enormus knowledge and enough experience of swimming in rough waters.
Obama said in his speach:
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It's not good enough to just have "experience" -- Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld had tons of experience -- you want people with experience making good judgments, and Hillary Clinton doesn't have that record on Iraq, and her team is weighted toward people who made the same judgment that she did on Iraq.
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He is right, indeed.