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...from Missouri) and has won praise for pushing the Sudanese close to a peace deal after three years of negotiations. Another candidate is CONDOLEEZZA RICE. As National Security Adviser, she has dealt with virtually every foreign leader who matters but draws her influence more from her proximity to the Oval Office than her ability to hammer out disputes between the Administration's long-divided factions...
...very tough re-election campaign. It was equally the case in 1980, when the Reagan-Carter slugfest took place in the shadow of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. And at some point, especially in foreign policy, when the stakes are invested so heavily in the man in the Oval Office, you have to give the winner a chance, a fresh start, a honeymoon to do what he thinks is in the best interests of the country...
...failure to adequately plan for the postwar peace left him to tack and turn as the occupation went sour. On the stump, Bush brushed all that aside with loads of optimistic rhetoric about Iraq's democratic future, but his policy is still more sentiment than strategy. Back in the Oval Office, he's going to have to start filling in the details in earnest...
Nonetheless, it is true. The president returns to the Oval Office with a job to complete in Iraq, an economy still on the rebound, a budget in deficit, a failing social security system, healthcare concerns and much more. The election is behind us, and there is a job to be done...
...especially impressed that Kerry seems willing to break with personal beliefs on certain social matters in order to serve the good of the nation. What Kerry thinks about stem cell research or gay marriage or abortions after he leaves the Oval Office for the evening does not concern us; the only thing that matters is what he signs while he’s there. In a Kerry presidency, the driving force behind policy decisions will be his concern for what is best and what is right, not his private religious beliefs...