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To: tejek who wrote (308050)	10/28/2006 3:30:39 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572124

"Go back and compare your two lists again. And then look at what I posted to you:" I am guessing we are missing the nuance...

To: tejek who wrote (308050)	10/29/2006 8:19:36 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1572124

This is the most substantive interview I've seen with Barrack Obama, and well worth reading. Little doubt in my mind I would vote for this guy. Read the whole interview here- newyorker.com <snip> AUDIENCE MEMBER: Let us say in the next election the Democrats win both the House and the Senate. In 2008, whether you run for President or not, what would you say were the three most important priorities that the new President, with a Democratic Congress, should present to the American people as the things that need to get done? Well, it is hard to anticipate at this point where we’re going to be in Iraq. But first priority would be to stabilize and extricate ourselves from the morass that we’re in right now. I’ve called for a phased withdrawal; I hope that the Baker-Hamilton commission helps to move us in that direction. I think not only do we have to engage the Iraqis but also the regional powers, including Iran and Syria, in a conversation about stabilizing the area, and force them to recognize that they’ve got a self-interest. If we’re not there, they’ve got a big self-interest in making sure that country does not utterly collapse. More broadly, and this I think would be one of the most important things a new President can do, is to essentially figure out what is the updated version of the post-World War II order that was structured by Truman and Acheson, and Marshall and Kennan—what does that look like? What is our national-security strategy? Because we’ve never gone through that process. In the nineties, the basic feeling was, you know, as long as McDonald’s are opening up all over the world everything’s going to be O.K. And then we had 9/11, and immediately launched into a unilateral, sabre-rattling approach to foreign policy. But what we’ve never really done is thought strategically about how, in an age of asymmetrical warfare, with countries like China and Russia that are no longer direct enemies, but are clearly competitors, and huge chunks of the world that are essentially collapsing and ungoverned—what does that mean for us? And what does that mean for our military? So that would be point No. 1. On the domestic front, I would say that it is time for the Democrats to get over what happened in ’94, and to move on an aggressive plan for health-care reform in this country. And I personally think universal health care remains a vital goal for us to meet. And I think for us to shy away from it robs the Democrats of any claim of dealing with one of the most pressing issues—not just for individual families but also for our economy and our competitiveness. And the third, which I’ve already, I think, hinted at, is energy. I believe Al Gore—and the other, you know, ten thousand scientists out there. I know there are those two holdouts in the White House. From a national-security posture, there’s not a better thing we could do—for example, dealing with proliferation issues in Iran—than to drive the price of oil down to twenty-five bucks a barrel. It’s the single biggest thing we could do to effectuate change and cut the legs out of some of the fundamentalist impulses in the Middle East. And so why we’re not pursuing that in a very aggressive way baffles me. And I think the country’s ready for it. I mentioned that, travelling around the country, what I’ve been struck by is the degree to which, despite gas prices going down, the issue of energy policy is still registering very high among voters. They recognize that the current path we’re on is unsustainable.