Comment from Nosebetter
Time: September 23, 2008, 10:16 am

John:

Foreign policy is what people seem to be the most concerned with.
Personally, I think foreign policy experience is way over-rated.

First, I would much prefer no experience to twenty years of bad experience. It’s easier to teach from scratch than to change bad habits and then teach good habits. Therefore, I look at foreign policy experience as a negative because I haven’t witnessed very much good foreign policy in my life.

Second, I don’t think traveling the world makes a person more able to listen to the American people and do their bidding. I want a politician to do what the people think should be done; not what their “superior intellect” and world travel experience tell them to do. I look at some one who has sat down with Putin (or any other leader) a hundred times as perhaps too friendly to the opposition.

In other words, I want a leader who is fighting for America and doing what the people want. Most of the American people are not “well traveled”, but they damn sure know what kind of foreign policies they want. The average thirty-year-old with a high school degree and no foreign policy experience could most likely negotiate better foreign trade policies than have been negotiated in the last thirty years. For my own positions, there is no doubt in my mind that I could have done better than the clowns who have represented me. Maybe we could do better if we fired every last one of our “experienced negotiators” and hired Canadians, Mexicans, Chinese, or Indian negotiators. They are obviously more competent. So much for foreign policy experience.

I’ll conclude with a remark I once read that Reagan made when one of his foreign policy experts explained that they couldn’t do what he wanted because that wasn’t how they did things. Reagan told him they had promised the American people that they were going to do things a different way and that was exactly what they would do. Whether one agrees or disagrees with Reagan’s policies, I like his reasoning in that situation.

Comment from Tiffany
Time: September 23, 2008, 10:50 am

I think that the United States is in trouble no matter which one of these guys get into office

Comment from Tiffany
Time: September 23, 2008, 10:54 am

Opps hit the enter button by mistake. Anyways, whats our choices? We can pick a guy that prolly will not live long enough to serve 4 years if he is voted in.

Or our other guy has no experience in what a president should have.

One thing we know for sure is that history will be set with either the first black president or the first female vice president, or maybe the first female president if McCain would pass away during the 4 years.

Comment from Clout Flowers
Time: September 23, 2008, 12:29 pm

Good thinking Tiff, do you think McCorpse will be the kind of president we are in need of, even if it is for only a short period of time ? Will this nation be better off with a brilliant Obama or a high heeled moose gutter from Alaska ? Now let me think ….

Comment from Max
Time: September 23, 2008, 4:19 pm

Nosebetter,

I am afraid that I must disagree with you. The primary problems of Americans is ignorance. This is what always hampers America. I personally know many present and former State Department people in Tokyo, and believe me, simply because they understand Japan and speak Japanese does not mean that they will take a pro Japanese position.

And the American people have a very hazy understanding at best of what goes on outside US borders.

Comment from deanie
Time: September 28, 2008, 12:35 pm

Please watch the following youtube video explaining the economic crisis and how Obama is to blame.

Turn up your volume–good music.

Please copy the following and paste it in your address bar:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5tZc8oH–o