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On the trail in Virginia

From On November 6, 2012 · Leave a Comment

via Lobe Log

By Scott McConnell

I spent the weekend canvassing for Obama in the Virginia Beach area. The task for the hundreds of volunteers who descended from DC and New York was to make sure the maximum number of Virginia’s “sporadic Democratic voters” — a designation which seemed to mean, pretty much, [...]

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Romney Assails Obama’s “Passivity” in Foreign Policy, Middle East

From On October 9, 2012 · Leave a Comment

In what was billed as a major foreign policy address, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney Monday assailed Barack Obama for “passivity” in the conduct of U.S. foreign policy, arguing that it was “time to change course” in the Middle East, in particular.

Dispensing with some of the neo-conservative rhetoric he has used in the past, [...]

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Dumb and Dumber

From On September 6, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Obama’s “Smart Power” Foreign Policy Not Smart at All

By John Feffer

via Tom Dispatch

Barack Obama is a smart guy. So why has he spent the last four years executing such a dumb foreign policy? True, his reliance on “smart power” — a euphemism for giving the Pentagon a stake in all [...]

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