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To: i-node who wrote (398731)	7/14/2008 7:42:35 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578494

Twice in the last two weeks, he has referred to the Czech Republic as Czechoslavakia when it hasn't been that for several years. Geez, man, this is not important. It is important. Its important to the people who live in the Czech Republic and Slovakia....already McCain has one strike against him. Secondly, its important for him to know who the players are and how they effect each other. What it important is when a presidential candidate is seen as waffling on foreign policy -- like Obama's bungle on Jerusalem, his waffle on sitting down with foreign dictators, his plan to immediately withdraw from Iraq (followed by one revision after another, to where his policy on getting out is essentially the same as Bush's, except Bush's is to have us WIN and Obama's has us surrendering). What you call waffling I call rethinking a position based on new info. You all think being rigid as steel is somehow admirable. In some instances, it may be a good quality but in most instances in this world, its a bad one. Making an understandable mistake in referring to some country as its predecessor just doesn't matter. Many people still refer to Russia as the "soviet union" rather than the "Former Soviet Union". I am afraid the president of the US doesn't have that luxury. Bush learned that rule the hard way. Sorry.