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Mudslinging Obama Adviser Steps Down

Harvard foreign-policy expert referred to Clinton as a 'monster'

Mar 7, 08 11:45 AM CST
(Newser) - One of Barack Obama's top advisers resigned today, hours after the publication of an interview in which she called Hillary Clinton a "monster." Samantha Power apologized to both candidates, but her remark contrasted sharply with the campaign's take-the-high-road strategy, Reuters reports. "She is a monster, too—that... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Bosnia • foreign policy • negative campaigning • Election 2008 • Samantha Power

Obama Says He'll Sharpen His Attacks

He criticizes media for buying Clinton's claim of unfair treatment

Mar 5, 08 6:08 PM CST
(Newser) - Getting up off the canvas after yesterday's primary losses, Barack Obama promised to escalate criticism of Hillary Clinton over the next few days, targeting in particular her claim to be the candidate with the most foreign policy experience. "What exactly is this foreign policy experience?" Obama asked. "Was... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Clinton 2008 • Obama 2008 • foreign policy • Democratic campaign • campaign issues • Election 2008 • media coverage

Paris-Berlin Relations Turn Sour

Tempers fraying in Merkel's camp after 2 high-level cancellations

Feb 27, 08 10:08 AM CST
(Newser) - Only a week after Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel called off a scheduled meeting, France and Germany's finance ministers canceled their own summit yesterday, reports AFP. While nobody wants to say that the leaders of Europe's two largest countries are getting testy with each other, disagreements over economic policy and... More »

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diplomacy • Angela Merkel • Germany • European Union • Nicolas Sarkozy • Jacques Chirac • France • foreign policy • Mediterranean Union • Gerhard Schröder

OPINION

How Obama Is Like a Dot-Com

Politics of hope are a bubble waiting to burst

Feb 19, 08 11:35 AM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama may be generating excitement across America, but so did tech stocks during the late-'90s bubble, writes Der Spiegel’s Gabor Steingart. "The rhetoric all sounds strangely familiar," he warns, comparing Obama’s campaign to that absurd era in the market’s history. Just as the bubble... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Obama 2008 • foreign policy • Obama-mentum • tech bubble

Meet the Man Putting Paris
in Motion

Ex-socialist is now Sarko's buddy and France's star politician

Feb 3, 08 4:31 PM CST
(Newser) - Bernard Kouchner was once a card-carrying socialist hurling red ink at the American Embassy in Paris. Now, as France’s foreign minister, he’s President Nicolas Sarkozy’s right-hand man, helping to rebuild long-strained ties with the US. He also may be France’s most popular politician. The New ... More »

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Middle East • Nicolas Sarkozy • France • United States • foreign policy • Bernard Kouchner • Doctors Without Borders

Foreign Pro
Liz Cheney Joins Romney Campaign

Now scramble's
on in Florida

Jan 28, 08 3:00 AM CST
(Newser) - GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney’s campaign got an injection of foreign policy expertise yesterday from the vice president’s daughter. Liz Cheney, a State Department official responsible for Mideastern and North African initiatives, will be Romney's senior foreign policy adviser, FOX News reports. Cheney had been a co-chair of... More »

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Mitt Romney • Fred Thompson • Mike Huckabee • foreign policy • Republican nomination • Florida primary

OPINION

Why Obama
Is No JFK

Comparisons fail to note fellow senator's experience on
world stage

Jan 8, 08 5:10 PM CST
(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... More »

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Barack Obama • United Nations • Europe • John F. Kennedy • foreign policy

Bhutto Killing:
US Hopefuls React, Adjust

Clinton, McCain, Biden play up foreign policy experience

Dec 27, 07 4:04 PM CST
(Newser) - On the campaign trail today, would-be presidents reacted to the murder of Benazir Bhutto by shifting tone and focusing on their foreign policy bona fides. In Iowa, Hillary Clinton talked about her friendship with Bhutto, which spanned the dozen years since she stood on line with Chelsea to meet the... More »

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Hillary Clinton • John McCain • Rudy Giuliani • Pakistan • Mike Huckabee • Benazir Bhutto • assassination • foreign policy • campaign • Election 2008

Hillary Was Adviser, Not Decider

First Lady didn't handle intel but was a presidential sounding board

Dec 26, 07 4:33 PM CST
(Newser) - Hillary Clinton spent her 8 years in the White House informally advising her husband and jetting around the world mediating social crises, the New York Times says, but the first lady had little direct experience with war or terrorism. She didn’t do “the heavy lifting of foreign policy,... More »

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China • Somalia • national security • Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • human rights • Bill Clinton • Haiti • diplomat • foreign policy • Rwanda • Balkans • first lady

Kean Slams US Security Effort Since 9/11

Americans are no safer, says commission head; foreign policy a disaster

Sep 9, 07 3:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - Six years after 9/11 and three years after the 9/11 Commission report, commission chairman Thomas Kean assesses the nation's progress in protecting itself against the threat of terrorism.  On the domestic front, our defenses are better, he writes in the Washington Post., but internationally we have lost ground... More »

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Islam • terrorism • Muslims • homeland security • September 11 • Osama bin Laden • foreign policy • 9/11 commission • Thomas Kean • Iraq war

Obama Would Ease Cuba Travel Limits

Candidate backs looser rules on money transfers, family visits

Aug 21, 07 11:02 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama says that as president, he would reverse the Bush administration's increased restrictions on travel to Cuba, the AP reports. Visiting or sending money to relatives on the Communist-controlled island became more difficult in 2004, a policy change the candidate calls "strategically blundering" in an op-ed published in... More »

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Bush administration • Florida • Barack Obama • travel • presidential campaign • Cuba • foreign policy • Little Havana • Cuban embargo • Election 2008 • presidential election

Pro-Democracy Campaign Falters

Second-term initiative stalls, battered from within and without

Aug 20, 07 6:34 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Bush has announced his intention to end "tyranny in our world," but promoting democracy is proving as unpopular among Republicans as Democrats. His plans have met internal opposition, even from Dick Cheney, but a more formidable roadblock is the plan's close association with the unpopular chief executive,... More »

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Iraq • Dick Cheney • Lebanon • democracy • State Department • Ukraine • foreign policy • Kyrgyzstan • George W. Bush

Rudy's Foreign Policy Opus Riles Pundits

In 17-page manifesto the candidate tackles  Iraq, Palestine

Aug 17, 07 1:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - Bloggers are having a heyday parsing the rambling 17-page essay Rudy Giuliani has published in Foreign Affairs, laying out his big-picture foreign policy views. "Lengthy, pompous and ultimately very confused," writes Salon, and Slate is no kinder: "The breadth and depth of his cluelessness are vaster... More »

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Rudy Giuliani • security • New York • mayor • foreign policy • blogger • Election 2008 • presidential election

Elbows Keep Getting Sharper

In Chicago, the testy senators spar on Iraq and Pakistan

Aug 8, 07 5:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama delivered their sharpest attacks yet at each other's foreign policy visions at a debate last night in Obama's hometown. Newsday writes that the two senators went after each other with unprecedented ferocity: Clinton suggested that Obama was naive and unschooled in diplomacy, while Obama cited... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • labor • foreign policy • Iraq war

UK Asks US to Release Gitmo Suspects

Brown wants 5 Britons freed from US custody in change of policy

Aug 7, 07 4:14 PM CDT
(Newser) - The United Kingdom wants the US to let go of five British residents detained at the terrorist detention camp at Guantanamo Bay. Green PM Gordon Brown made the official request, hinting that he may be distancing himself from the Bush administration and carving a more independent terror policy than Tony... More »

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Bush administration • Tony Blair • terrorism • United Kingdom • State Department • Gordon Brown • Guantanamo Bay • prisoners • terrorist • foreign policy • Britain

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