Bush's Overseas Policies Begin Resembling Obama's

[True_Blue]

Source: The Washington Post

Barack Obama contends that a John McCain presidency would amount to little more than President Bush's third term. But as it turns out, an Obama presidency might look a bit like Bush's second.

On a range of major foreign policy issues over the past year, Bush has pursued strategies and actions very much along the lines of what Sen. Obama has advocated during his presidential race, according to the Illinois Democrat's campaign and many diplomatic and security experts.

The administration has pushed ahead with high-level diplomatic negotiations with Iran and North Korea, agreed to a "time horizon" for a reduction of U.S. forces in Iraq and announced plans last week to shift troops and other resources from Iraq to Afghanistan. U.S. officials also confirmed last week that Bush has formally authorized cross-border raids into Pakistan without that government's approval -- an idea that Obama first endorsed, and was heavily criticized for, in 2007.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/14/AR2008091401973.html

[Skittles]

1. LOL

bush and Obama could do the "same thing" and have COMPLETELY different results

[Submariner]

2. Well isn't that just a dandy policy for Bush

Wait until the guy with brains lays out a diplomatic or operational approach before, and during, his presidential campaign, and then quietly adopt it as U.S. policy and follow it to the letter.

That's my boy Bush, going with Obama's his gut feeling. What a putz.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

3. So now thugs will say that a vote for McShame is a vote for change...

without totally lying.

[applegrove]

4. I've noticed that.

[Roy]

5. Like I said before.... The ads just write themselves....

He should jump on it now and infer things are getting better in Iraq because Bush is starting to use the strategy that he has laid out in his campaign.

Maybe worded a bit better tho'