Obama recently outlined his foreign policy in a great speech. I will quote and talk about some of the highlights from this speech.

My approach is guided by a simple premise: I have confidence that our system of justice is strong enough to deal with terrorists; Senator McCain does not. That is not the same as giving these detainees the same full privileges as Americans citizens. I never said that, the Supreme Court never said that, and I would never do that as President of the United States. So either Senator McCain’s campaign doesn’t understand what the Court decided, or they are distorting my position.

I think this is a very strong line of attack and hopefully Obama will continue on it. McCain doesn’t actually have ‘foreign policy experience’ and from everything I have read I believe Obama is far more knowledgeable in that area. It, of course, helps that Obama was a constitutional law professor at one of the best law schools in the nation and was the first black man to head Harvard’s law review.

Well I refuse to be lectured on national security by people who are responsible for the most disastrous set of foreign policy decisions in the recent history of the United States. The other side likes to use 9/11 as a political bludgeon. Well, let’s talk about 9/11.

Here Obama is talking about his policy going forward, which is very comprehensive, and McCain’s comment that Obama was living in a ‘9/10′ world. The whole speech is actually pretty scathing(yet completely warranted) attacks on McCain’s campaign’s distortion of the truth.

The case for war in Iraq was so thin that George Bush and John McCain had to hype the threat of Saddam Hussein, and make false promises that we’d be greeted as liberators. They misled the American people, and took us into a misguided war.

This is another strong line of attack that Obama will most likely be following up on. In the next paragraph he even calls it the ‘Bush-McCain’ approach which has led us down Iraq and allowed Afghanistan to turn into a terrorist stronghold once again. Obama also has the money to grab McCain’s old comments about Iraq and run national TV ads to make him look absolutely silly.

So we have a choice in this election. We can listen to the other side make the same false arguments about why we need to violate our Constitution, stay in Iraq indefinitely, build permanent bases in a country that doesn’t want them, and keep shortchanging our effort in Afghanistan and our ability to deal with nearly every other national security challenge that we face. We can do that.

Notice how he words this. Obama isn’t boxing himself into a ‘withdraw on day 1′ approach and personally I think there could be troops in Iraq even at the end of his first term. However, the country is against the war and Obama is riding that wave, as well as pressing other matters that are certainly important to ’save face’ for America. Its about time that we wage this (mostly political) war against terrorism with politics as well as the weapons we have been.

Or, we can finally end this disastrous approach to national security. Because the record shows that George Bush and John McCain have been weak on terrorism. Their approach has failed. Because of their policies, we are less safe, less respected, and less able to lead the world. It’s time to turn the page. It’s time to end the war in Iraq responsibly. It’s time to stop wasting time, and to start putting away terrorists. It’s time to finally take out al Qaeda’s top leadership, and to finish the fight in Afghanistan. It’s time to restore our standing so that we can once again lead the world. That’s why I’m running for President of the United States.

Do remember, ‘hawk’-ishness is a democratic trait that the republicans stole because it is popular among Americans. Its about time the democrats took it back.

I was bumpin a classic hip-hop album called Ready to Die while I rode the subway last night. I’ve always known Ready to Die as a hip-hop classic, but now I really understand. Not only is the production excellent (still sounds good almost 15 years later), but Biggie paints an incredibly vivid picture of his reality.

Biggie is the greatest rapper ever. There’s no denying it. I’ll leave an example before the debate starts (who you going to throw at me? Pac?). In this verse Biggie is detailing what he sees in his neighborhood after returning from a stint in prison. As the song title says “Things Done Changed”. After you read the verse — ask yourself if you can picture it.

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