For all the hand wringing on the left about Obama’s supposed rush to the center, people seem to be really missing what has happened, especially on foreign policy. Obama hasn’t moved to the middle. He has redefined it. When the history of the 2008 campaign is written I have a feeling that the last couple [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Foreign Policy’
July 16, 2008
Obama Defines the Middle
Filed under Politics
Tags: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Bush Administration, Diplomacy, Foreign Policy, Iran, Iraq, John McCain, The Center
June 10, 2008
Biden for Veep?
I think Ezra Klein is largely right in his case for Joe Biden as Vice President.
In the 2008 election, he was the only Democrat who really figured out how to talk about Republicans and foreign policy. All the other candidates on the stage started from the presumption that Republicans were strong on national security, and [...]
May 8, 2008
Obama and McCain on the Issues
This is a really interesting graph comparing what Obama and McCain talk about on their websites. The immediate thing that strikes me is how much more policy is on Obama’s website and how many more issues he discusses. Does McCain really have no positions on technology, urban policy, science, social security, civil rights or any [...]
