gandalf: In one of my earlier posts, I suggested looking at Obama’s voting record and his stance on various issues. Combined with his inexperience on the world stage and with foreign policy matters, what evidence do you have that he will govern from the center and cross the aisle?
He is among the more left leaning politicians we have (not saying this as a pejorative, but based on his voting record), and he votes party line nearly without fail.
His suggested policy of engagement includes “peer to peer” discussions with rogue states like Syria, as well as muscular interventionism into sovereign nations like Pakistan (although, in fairness, this particular idea was probably motivated by the fact that he was unaware that Pakistan was a sovereign nation).
I am saying all of this because it does fly in the face of the hope that Obama will prove a centrist, capable on the world stage, and a realist when it comes to recognition that many of the players we are confronting at present are anything but reasonable, rational, and willing to allow diplomacy to work.
