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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (4592)	11/21/2003 8:33:12 AM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20773

The political press has become obsessed with the "gotcha" inconsistency game. My only concern is how I think each candidate will handle crises in the future. The past may be some guide, but as we found with Bush, what you get in the Oval Office may be very different from what you heard on the stump or saw in another elected position. I am biased toward an effective foreign affairs president - Clark has more hands-on international experience than Bush and all the other candidates combined. I also have no problem with US force projection if it is used wisely, humanely and effectively. I can think of a dozen situations in the past 20 years where the US should have acted differently or not acted. My gut feel so far is that Clark would make good decisions about how and when to use force. More important, he would rebuild the post-Cold War international fabric that the neocons were so quick to rip to shreds. That said, Dean is the only other candidate who really caught my interest. His foreign affairs agenda is half-baked from what I can see, but who knows, he might become a decent chef given a chance. The main problem is the electorate's aversion to electing Yankees. Bush Sr. was a pseudo-Texan, Kennedy was barely elected and FDR was the only other Yankee in recent memory. Midwesterners, southerners and Californians have dominated the White House for decades. I would be surprised to see that change.