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To: Alighieri who wrote (613850)	5/30/2011 6:38:35 PM
From: Brumar89	3 Recommendations Respond to of 1577931

Barack is incurious, still carrying around the kneejerk liberal assumptions he learned as a child. No knowledge of business, economics, or foreign or domestic affairs .... only a crude class bound view of the world.

To: Alighieri who wrote (613850)	5/30/2011 6:52:22 PM
From: i-node	3 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1577931

>> The difference is.was a chasm...she was/is an incurious, attention deficient, unread, unschooled in foreign and domestic affairs...need I go on. It is a simplistic distinction. While Palin may not have the education that Obama has, she DID have vital experience that he was lacking -- and it is downright obvious that the blunders he has made in foreign policy would not have been made by Palin (that is assuming the extremely qualified John McCain had dropped dead on his first day in office, which as we now know, would not have happened). Obama and his followers were idealistic in a child-like way; Palin would at least have had competent people could rely on. Obama just behaved like a bull in a china shop, and America has been irretrievably weakened as a result. Of course, what we're looking at today it the Obama of now vs. the Palin of now. Obama now has more experience that will play in his favor. But we are still stuck with an ideological divide that makes him less suitable for the office than Palin would be. She isn't my choice, but if one has to choose between her and Obama...