Quote Originally Posted by JakeMartinez
First, the fact that these people could soon be world leaders is enough for fellow leaders to talk to them. In all honesty, as a leader, it'd make more sense to talk to any one of the candidates over president Bush because he has all of 4 months left as president.
But they aren't... and neither one of the candidates are in office yet. Jimmy Carter wasn't president when he gave north korea nuclear weapons.. look what a mess that was

Second, McCain also went overseas for photo-ops and speeches, albeit the speeches were smaller scale. Sounds like the pot calling the kettle black to me.
He didn't go and have any in depth political conversations or negotiations like people seem to want to have Palin doing. It's not her place to do it. She is not the VP. Although many Obama supporters would like to think he's entitled to do this because they would like to believe he's already president, fact is that he is not and moving forward prematurely is just stupid.

Third, senators SHOULD talk to foreign leaders just as much as presidents because, collectively, they DO make up 1/3 of our government. The Executive branch is not the be-all end-all branch. It is supposed to serve under Congress, and Congress under the Judicial branch.
Congress is the check and balance to the executive office; in additions they do have a foreign policy committee that senators do participate in; One of those People being Ron Paul, Last I checked neither Palin or Obama are on this committee. Neither one of them are suited to talk to foreign leaders on our relations at the moment. Again; it's stupid for them to act prematurely.


The only out of place person in this race is Palin who hasn't even served one full term as governor and as for being the mayor of a small town, that doesn't even compare to being President. At least Obama, McCain, and Biden have had a few years on the hill. They should know more about the duties of a president than a person who, up until a year or so ago, was the elected leader of a grand city with a whopping 7,000 people.
Obama doesn't have any executive experience; the office of Governor is an Executive office. In terms of years in politics Obama has her beat out MARGINALLY! So if you REALLY want to get down to it Palin would have a better understanding about the duties of a president than any of the Presidential candidates or Biden for that matter.

Those videos posted earlier about Obama pulling the race card sounded much more harmless to me than they were made out to be on even liberal media outlets. I would have said the same thing if I were a half black man named Barack Hussein Obama running against a man who spent a good portion of his life in the era of segregation. It wasn't a smart political move, imo. Oh well.

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Uhh.. Seeing as how no one.. NO ONE has made barack Obama's race an issue.. or his name.. I do not see it as harmless, but then again you are probably the exact type of person he was trying to attract.

When you are indirectly calling a person or a party a racist, that is anything but harmless.

But then again people who think this is harmless probably share the same set of ethics and morals. :thumbsup:

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