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Obama victory loosens reins on Bush policy; Outreach to hostile nations has been under fire by GOP.(WORLD)

Article from: The Washington Times Article date: November 07, 2008

Byline: Nicholas Kralev, THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Barack Obama's election will make it easier for the Bush administration to continue efforts to engage hostile foreign regimes - something that would have been more difficult had John McCain won, U.S. diplomats and analysts say.

Some of those policies, such as negotiating with North Korea and making overtures to Iran, have been criticized repeatedly by many Republicans, including former administration officials.

Mr. Obama, however, praised those efforts during the campaign, saying that the administration, which shifted ...

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Why Obama Is No JFK

Posted Jan 8, 08 5:10 PM CST in Politics 

Why Obama Is No JFK
Source: Associated Press

(Newser) – The election of a charismatic 43-year-old president nearly a half-century ago may indeed represent a precedent for Barack Obama's upstart candidacy, but Ted Widmer notes in Washington Monthly that JFK had something Barack can’t boast: a substantial foreign policy record. Born into world affairs, Kennedy was in the room when the Munich Agreement was debated and when the United Nations was formed.

Obama is in charge of the Senate’s Europe subcommittee but hasn’t held a single policy-oriented hearing or been to the Continent since his political career began. A Boston Globe editorial credited him with an “intuitive sense of the wider world” from his years as a child in Indonesia, but, Widmer notes, George Bush's "intuition" has led to some of the worst foreign policy disasters of his administration.

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