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To: combjelly who wrote (405649)	8/11/2008 12:25:45 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) of 1574096

>> Only because you have cherry picked statements and even then you have to try for the nuance. There is virtually no difference in the two statements except for word choice. Not at all. I didn't "cherry pick" anything -- I posted their direct quotations when they responded to the crisis. Obama clearly has less familiarity with the situation, and I guess that's to be expected. But McCain's response was sharp and well-defined, while Obama was as vague as he could possibly have been. Only a day later was he able to "refine" his statement in more definitive terms. Now, this may not matter to you, but on the world stage you have to be able to make a call like this without researching it. If you go to your doctor once and he says, "Hey, I'll have to research this and get back to you", you might tolerate that okay. But if it happens three or four times, you start getting the idea he isn't with the program. The same is true with Obama -- you can excuse his not knowing some of this stuff, but over time, these backpedals and shifts in position start to wear thin.

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