The 300

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MG1968

MG1968

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No, not the movie about the 300 Spartans who bloodied the nose of Xerxes army at Thermopylae, but Obama's team of foreign policy advisers.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/18/us/politics/18advisers.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

a tight-knit group of aides supported by a huge 300-person foreign policy campaign bureaucracy, organized like a mini State Department, to assist a candidate whose limited national security experience remains a concern to many voters.

“It is unwieldy, no question,” said Denis McDonough, 38, Mr. Obama’s top foreign policy aide, speaking of an infrastructure that has been divided into 20 teams based on regions and issues, and that has recently absorbed, with some tensions, the top foreign policy advisers from Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign. “But an administration is unwieldy, too. We also know that it’s messier when you don’t get as much information as you can.”
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I suppose if John McCain had 300 economic advisers, it would have been bigger news, although you don't need 300 people to explain the Laffer Curve or that socializing health care would wreck the US economy.

I might not have a problem with Obama's team if it included some actual foreign policy heavyweights, but most of them are Clinton era officials who gave us things like the USS Cole bombing and an almost nuclear North Korea.
 
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by all accounts, N. Korea's nuclear weapon's test was something of a dismal failure and they've recently dismantled their facility capable of enriching uranium.
 
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I'd say you're right, vader, but Monterey isn't really clear. I don't trust commies as far as I can throw them, and Kim Jong Il is probably trying something sneaky, but is probably too inept to do anything effective.

Monterey could also be intimating that Clinton/Albright gave N. Korea far more technology than we realize.
 
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MG1968 said:
I'd say you're right, vader, but Monterey isn't really clear. I don't trust commies as far as I can throw them, and Kim Jong Il is probably trying something sneaky, but is probably too inept to do anything effective.
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for a minute there, I thought you were calling me a commie!

Kim Jong Il is even more dangerous as a lunatic than people give him credit for. His countries failure is in its missile's not its nuclear capability.
 
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still don't know if N Korea can be considered a "nuclear power" in the same way that Pakistan can be. We only know of the one test in 2006 and it's yield was less than a kiloton.

we're getting sidetracked though. Am I the only person who thinks Obama's 300 foreign policy advisers is a little bit of overkill?
 
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Forgot, that wasnt in the original article but I think he is taking most of them with him on his trip.
 
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MontereyVol said:
Forgot, that wasnt in the original article but I think he is taking most of them with him on his trip.
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if that's the case, then it's obvious he's not really going on this trip to learn anything. it's going to be a series of photo ops and the three network anchors will be having Obamagasms right in front of the cameras every night.
 
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MG1968 said:
if that's the case, then it's obvious he's not really going on this trip to learn anything. it's going to be a series of photo ops and the three network anchors will be having Obamagasms right in front of the cameras every night.
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:lolabove:
 
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MG1968 said:
if that's the case, then it's obvious he's not really going on this trip to learn anything. it's going to be a series of photo ops and the three network anchors will be having Obamagasms right in front of the cameras every night.
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Was there ever any doubt? Now after what the Iraqi PM has said, guess what will be on the news every night? Obama is in touch with the Iraqi people.
 
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