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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (21679)	2/22/2008 8:02:56 PM
From: TideGlider	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224704

Your brain is somewhere between a rotten tangerine and an orange that never wished it met your father.

To: American Spirit who wrote (21679)	2/22/2008 10:26:26 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224704

McCain: Obama is "dangerously naive" on international diplomacy usatoday.com, Feb 22, 2008 Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama increasingly are assuming they will face each other in the general election. Today McCain called Obama's position on Cuba "dangerously naive" and Obama said that "in November, there will be a clear choice" between his views and McCain's. In last night's Democratic debate, Obama said he would meet with the new leader of Cuba without preconditions, but said he would require preparation of an agenda that included human rights, release of political prisoners and a free press. "So Raul Castro gets an audience with an American president, and all the prestige such a meeting confers, without having to release political prisoners, allow free media, political parties, and labor unions, or schedule internationally monitored free elections. Instead, Sen. Obama says he would meet Cuba's dictator without any such steps in the hope that talk will make things better for Cuba's oppressed people. Meet, talk, and hope may be a sound approach in a state legislature, but it is dangerously naive in international diplomacy," McCain said in a statement. That brought an answering salvo from Obama. "John McCain would give us four more years of the same Bush-McCain policies that have failed U.S. interests and the Cuban people for the last 50 years," Obama said. "My policy will be based on the principle of liberty for the Cuban people, and I will seek that goal through strong and direct presidential diplomacy, and an immediate change in policy to allow for unlimited family visitation and remittances to the island." USA TODAY's David Jackson passes along McCain remarks from Indianapolis in which he said "the people of Cuba deserve to have the prisons emptied, they deserve human rights organizations working there, and they deserve free and fair elections... Unless those things happen, I see no reason, whatsoever -- whatsoever -- to sit down and have unconditional talks with (new leader) Raul Castro." Posted by Jill Lawrence, February 22, 2008 in Foreign Policy \|