I still think you're demanding skills which don't benefit interested parties who provide the money to place politicians in office. What the public hears from candidates who campaign for office has little relation to the actual process of government. Those who win office are aware of the limitations on their abilities to 'serve the public'.

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:

He is right, indeed.

In a three-hour forum on foreign policy, Obama has outlined his foreign policy agenda which stressed diplomacy and economics, rather than military reliance to gain hearts and minds of the alienated masses around the world.

"We know what we're going to get from the Republican nominee - more Bush-Cheney foreign policy," Obama said. "More support for open-ended war in Iraq. More saber-rattling toward Iran. More refusing to talk to countries we don't like. More exceptions for torture."

Obama's foreign policy initiative is designed, mainly, to restore America's standing in the world. It is respect and admiration of the people outside that have made America great.

Read this op-ed in the Manchester Union-Leader from John Hutson, the president and dean of the Franklin Pierce Law Center in Concord, New Hampshire:

The 2008 election is a winner for White racists. The Democrats have 3x the money of the Republicans. The Democrats will win the Presidency. Obama is the leading Democrat in Iowa and, really, probably in the nation. So, the White racists will be able to blame the coming collapse on Mulatto leadership.

What is your opinion on foreign policy and the issue of an underdeveloped Africa? Under US leadership with the UN, funded mandates could help alleviate the humanitarian concerns on that continent and ease migration pressures on the rest of Europe.

The truth that the leftist media won't tell you:
Barack Obama

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As a culture, we lose our way when we abandon our Judeo-Christian heritage and foundation.

Never forget:
http://www.frugalsites.net/911/attack/

Obama's policy on Africa is a well-directed and comprehensive one, which aims to take firm steps to reach well-defined ends, such as the crisis in Darfur, the conflict in Congo or bringing warlords in Liberia to justice.

Congo:
Sudan:
Liberia:
These are three of the many examples of Barack's commitment to the peace in the world as the President of the United States.

America is more than a promise, a dream. America is, and needs to be, a fullfilment, a force to stand tall against the atrocities and oppressions taking place all around the world. Barack Obama has the strong intuition and good judgement to, again, lead the world using the might of American power in the right direction and for the right causes.

You know there are moments when you feel something is gonna happen, really happen, and this is one of those times that so many people, as well as me, are now feeling the genuine excitement, belief and commitment about the strength and the promise Obama's campaign has shown as we are getting near to the first caucus in Iowa.

Can you feel the movement? Can you hear the emerging of the America's promise to the world, Obama. Do you hear how crows of misfortune, bats of bad luck, gangs of hatred are just rushing back to where they came from, squelching each other in their haste?

Des Moines Mayor Frank Cownie endorsed Senator Obama for president today. Mayor Cownie was re-elected in 2007 with 80% of the vote.

Here's what Cownie had to say about Barack:

"The real promise of Senator Obama’s presidency isn’t just the plans he’ll bring with him into the White House, it’s the visionary leadership he’ll demonstrate once he gets there. Barack Obama will put an end to the bitter partisanship that’s stopped us from making progress on the urgent challenge of global warming. He’ll tell the American people what they need to hear, not just what they want to hear. As President, he’ll restore America’s standing in the world and lead a global effort to meet this challenge once and for all."

Some are green with envy!

Some people called it "naive" when Barack Obama said he was ready to talk to the world leaders no matter what country they are from, including Iran and Syria. But did you know that even FDR first tried to talk Hitler?

http://www.c-span.org/presidentialli.../FDRHitler.pdf

Amazing how different the relationship of the US with the rest of the world is nowadays. I feel that for an American President to speak with such a voice once again would be an amazing feat.

It's clear to me that that Obama is best suited to take America toward this respect. Later Presidents would surely benefit from the changes Obama will bring to American diplomacy.

YouTube - Hitler mocking President Roosevelt
thats what hitler said back. So thats not really an example to be proud of.

Obama looked good in the Brown & Black Presidential Forum.... that's the event in Iowa that was moderated by NPR.

All Democrat and Republican candiates were invited but only Democrats showed up.

Richardson also did well.. Hillary got lots of attention, but only seemed to deliver canned statements.

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Listen for the NPR democratic debate today. They also wanted to have a republican debate but the candidates said they had scheduling conflicts.

I am not sure naive is the most appropriate word, since Obama could be in the position of a leader of the world's last remaining superpower if he does attempt to engage other leaders from, mostly, less developed parts of the world.

But that did not make FDR a worse president than GWB is or HRC could ever be.

I watched the event, too. And Hillary was as hot as a chunk of ice.