Advantage: Edwards and Obama

Should we talk to certain foreign leaders, or ignore them. That's the real question. Senator Clinton just blew it, in spite of having the advantage to respond after Obama. "We must protect the prestige of the President" ??? Is she a Republican or what.

What prestige? We have been losing face, and credibility for the last five years. No nation trust us anymore. We are creating more enemies, every day, faster than we kill them. We are so gullible that we finance a general-dictator in Pakistan who harbours terrorist, and laugh at us to the bank.

Only Republicans, except Ron Paul, still believe in the American power and influence. It seems that a few Democrat candidates belong more to the other side. Our economy is collapsing, our both deficits (budget and trade) are reaching an alarming and catastrophic level.

Should we talk to foreign leaders? Absoluately, yes. We might not agree with them about the way they rule their own country, but, it is possible, perhaps possible, that they do not agree with us the way we govern our own country. But, they are little more polite, more diplomat, with a more "savoir-faire" for not telling us, or not advertising it.

We suggest to the advisors of Mr. John Edwards and Barak Obama to read our article of September 12, 2006 : "The mistake of Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy".

From our September Archive

Revolutions occur with a reason. Usually, they do not succeed, or last, if not supported by a large segment of the population. Before the arrival of Fidel Castro, the regime Batista did nothing for the overall interests of Cubans.

Eight years after he left office, President Harry Truman told his biographer and interviewer, Merle Miller, what he would have done with Castro.

"If I had been President, when Castro came to power, I'd have picked up the phone and called him direct in Havana. I wouldn't have gone through protocol or anything like that...and I'd have said: Fidel, this is Harry Truman in Washington, and I'd like to have you come up here, and have a little talk."

"He would have come to the White House, and I would have said: Fidel, it looks to me you've had a pretty good revolution down there, and it's been a long time coming. Now, you're going to need help, and there's only two places you can go to get it.""One's right here, and the other - well, we both know where the other place is. Now, just you tell me what you need, and I'll see that you get it."

The whole world knows that Fidel Castro received a hero's welcome at the United Nations, but was chilled by Vice President Richard Nixon.Nikita Khruschev could not have expected a better and timely opportunity: a communist seed in the Americas.

Amazing to remember that Vice President Nixon was anxious to visit communist China, but ignore Cuba, which, at the time, was not a communist

From New York Times Readers

Comments to the article: Democrats Engage YouTubers, Snowman
By Michael Falcone

#10. July 24th,200711:43 am
The real Hillary, Calvie. Her answer to delay for meeting other leaders, you call that, a great move, I call that revealing of her nature, to test water, to find out where is the wind blowing. We need a real leader, not a follower of polls.
— Posted by Texancan

#16. July 24th,200712:41 pm
Calvin Preddie (#2), and anyone else blabbering at how “brilliant” Hillary’s retort about cautiously meeting with leaders…you bought into a total cheap shot. Looks like Texancan (#10) was one of the few who didn’t.
Hillary contradicted herself last night, yet few people noticed. Just three months ago, she had a totally different position on this topic, yet responded the way she did last night in order to score an applause line.
Apr 22, 2007 10:12 pm US/Eastern(CBS/AP) DECORAH, Iowa Hillary Rodham Clinton on Sunday criticized President Bush’s foreign policy, and said if she were president she would do things differently, including beginning diplomatic talks with supposed enemies and sending envoys throughout the world.
“I would begin diplomatic discussions with those countries with whom we have differences, to try to figure out what is the depth of those differences,” said Clinton, who spoke to about 1,000 people at Luther College in Decorah in northeastern Iowa.
— Posted by PaulD

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