Obama is a laughing stock in the foreign policy arena. By this I mean . . . leaders of foreign states laugh at him because he is so naieve and silly. This is not surprising: Obama has no experience in the trenches of global politics. His experience is organizing communities in Chicago, Alinsky style. What he didn't learn from Reverend Wright and Bill Ayers . . . he didn't learn. Vladimir Putin, I believe, was a long time KGB officer, giving him a practical, hard nosed understanding of Real Politik. Likewise, Akamadinajad has been around the block a few times -- seems like it is thought he was one of the original revolutionaries who held the US hostages in Iran for some year + at the end of the Carter presidency (when did they release the hostages, right when strong man Ronald Reagan was inugurated . . . what does that tell you?). The other world leaders generally didn't get into their positions by being community organizers.
You know, this was predicted of Obama, that his lack of executive experience and foreign policy experience would be a sore spot if he were elected. Seems to me this was a point made by Sarah Palin. Oh, wait, what she has to say is irrelevant because she graduated from podunck-U somewhere in Idaho while Obama graduated from Harvard.
Basically all the issues the Republicans raised about Obama during the 2008 campaign have come home to roost -- (1) he favors wealth redistribution, (2) he is a left wing radical more comfortable with Bill Ayers and Reverend Wright than ordinary people (you know, the ones who cling to their guns and their religion), (3) he is a tax and spend Democrat, (4) he has a dangerous lack of foreign policy expereince and/or knowledge, and (5) he doesn't know squat about business and the economy.
But that's OK, he is pretty, he is charismatic, he isn't Bush, and he wants change.
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