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Can Democrats compete on national security?

Remember Michael Dukakis' ride in the tank? That was 20 years ago, but the image endures -- a symbol of Democrats' continuing problems convincing the public that they can be as tough as the Republicans on national security. Will that change in a year when dissatisfaction with the war in Iraq remains high?

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Ben likes: Democrats are still weak on security

Karl Rove/Wall Street Journal

Elections are rarely decided over just one issue; to win, candidates don't need to have a majority of Americans agreeing with them on every big issue. But when it comes to choosing a president, Americans take seriously the candidates' views and experience on national security. Voters instinctively understand a president's principal constitutional responsibility is protecting the country.

 

The Democrats have two candidates with less national security experience and fewer credentials than the presumptive Republican nominee, Sen. John McCain. And they are compounding these difficulties with positions on Iraq and terrorist surveillance that are shared by a shrinking minority of Americans.

 

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Joel likes: How to talk foreign policy

Matt Yglesias/The American Prospect

One ideal way to illustrate the difference would be to point out that the Republican approach leads to huge disasters like Iraq, whereas the alternative doesn't. Not anything so high-flying (and, frankly, puny-sounding) as a denunciation of "the politics of fear," but something concrete like, "it seems to me that pulling troops out of Afghanistan so that Osama bin Laden could escape and the Taliban could regroup near the Pakistani border was probably a mistake. Nor was it a good idea to waste hundreds of billions of dollars on a war of choice that wound up speeding nuclear proliferation in North Korea and Iran. Unlike Sen. McCain, I didn't support those moves."

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voting republican

Submitted on March 23rd, 2008 by jeyuhas

To the blogger that said they should have voted republican. well, its not to late. Or you can vote democratic again, its easier than thinking!

There is one...

Submitted on March 22nd, 2008 by Anonymous

Her name is Hillary. She is the only candidate that can get us out of Iraq, and turn our economy around. But now even a pledged delegate that is suppose to vote for her has said their vote will be for Obama. It is very disturbing to realize how many people want to keep her from winning this nomination. They don't want to let the delegates of Florida or Michigan count for her, even those same voters are not added into the popular vote. Evidently, I should have voted Republican if I wanted my vote to count. The Democrats have decided they will do whatever they want to, and the people that cast votes should have just stayed at home, because pledged delegates evidently can do whatever they want to also.

It seems really popular to diss the Clintons this year. They have both been treated horribly by the media and their own party. I am discussed with this whole election.

Everyone wants to talk about how Obama is inspiring, big deal, what is he inspiring people to do? How is he going to inspire us out of Iraq or inspire our economy to turn around. Inspiration only goes so far, you need good, sound plans and Hillary has them. Too bad she has so many "Judas like" peers. She is the only chance we have.

I think the question needs

Submitted on March 22nd, 2008 by wishnevsky

I think the question needs to be rephrased; "Who has the reality based foreign policy, and who has the one based on misunderstood religion, superstition and wishful thinking?

The Republican policy has been so divorced from reality for so long, that it has brought us to the brink of disaster. Skyrocketing oil prices, the hate of a sixth of humanity, and thousands of casualties here and in Iraq are just the start of the consequences of the No-cons' open-ended "Global War on Terrorism."

One wonders if any administration, any candidate can extract us from this morass.

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