[Vision2020] tonight's democratic debate

[Sunil Ramalingam]

Sue,

I can't go with her because of the positions she has taken on foreign policy and what I see as her reflexive lunge to the right when she is challenged as a 'liberal.'

She made a conscious decision to not apologize for her Iraq war vote, and it immediately cost her my vote as well as others who feel as strongly as I do on this issue.  She tried to explain it away by saying she would have done something different 'if she knew then what she knows now.'  That doesn't work for me, as the information was available then too.  She also says she didn't think Bush would go to war with that authority.

If that is the case, why did she vote for Kyl-Lieberman, and give him the authority he may well use to bomb Iran?  If you question Bush's use of the authority you give him, why give him more? 

I hear arguments that she's intelligent and experienced, and then I look at what she does, and I cannot support her.

I do agree with your second paragraph in its entirety.  Apparently that is not a position politicians in America are allowed to take, and our foreign policy suffers grievously for it.

Sunil

From: suehovey at moscow.com
To: kjajmix1 at msn.com; vision2020 at moscow.com
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:01:41 -1000
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] tonight's democratic debate










Well the pundits give the debate to him, and seems to 
me when one analyzes the answers he is an articulate speaker who is 
absolutely unflappable and she is much more knowledgeable on foreign policy and 
other issues.  She is the more clearly intelligent thinker.  I'm still 
with her. This morning one comentator says Obama's a great 
communicator nearly on a par with Ronald Reagan. I'd like to think we're 
searching for more.  
 
In reference to last night's debate and the need not to 
offend the Jewish community, I'd like the candidates to discuss the 
mid-east conflict from a perspective that when it comes to Israelis and Arabs 
both groups have grievances that must be dealt with in fairness and with an 
admission that the creation of the state of Israel did in fact displace people 
who were living there, the 6 day war did displace even more, and today those 
issues are far from settled.  
 
Sue 

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: 
  keely emerinemix 
  
  To: vision2020 at moscow.com 
  Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 6:04 
  PM
  Subject: [Vision2020] tonight's 
  democratic debate
  

Any comments about tonight's debate?  I thought Obama 
  won, unlike the debate two weeks ago.  Here's a prediction:  When he 
  gets the nomination, he will pick Bill Richardson for Vice President.  
  Further prediction:  I will do cartwheels in glee.  But as much as I 
  like Richardson -- which is to say, very much -- I would, if I were advising 
  Barack Obama, recommend that he reach across the aisle, diffuse the monopoly 
  on military background that McCain has claimed, and choose Nebraska Sen. Chuck 
  Hagel.  He's a fiscal moderate, a social moderate, a staunch opponent of 
  the war in Iraq, and lends the foreign policy/military service gravitas that 
  some say Obama lacks.  

Keely



  
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