but sir, i think some of the voters may have taken history
I'll be the first to admit that I'm no history buff. I hated history in school and of course now wish that I hadn't and that I had actually learned retained something from those classes, but not much I can do about it at the moment. Knowing history is important for everyone, but I'd venture to say that for career-wise, it's a bit less important for a computer engineer to know the finer details of American and world history than say, oh I dunno, a Presidential candidate.
In defending his stated intent to meet with America's enemies without preconditions, Sen. Obama said: "I trust the American people to understand that it is not weakness, but wisdom to talk not just to our friends, but to our enemies, like Roosevelt did, and Kennedy did, and Truman did."
Mr. Kelly takes issue with this implication that Roosevelt, Kennedy, and Truman had diplomatic chats with megalomaniacal enemies.
The closest historical analogue to Sen. Obama's expressed desire to meet with no preconditions with anti-American dictators such as Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is the trip British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and French premier Eduoard Daladier took to Munich in September of 1938 to negotiate "peace in our time" with Adolf Hitler. That didn't work out so well.
And the List of Reasons I Cannot Conceive of Voting for Obama gets ever longer...
In defending his stated intent to meet with America's enemies without preconditions, Sen. Obama said: "I trust the American people to understand that it is not weakness, but wisdom to talk not just to our friends, but to our enemies, like Roosevelt did, and Kennedy did, and Truman did."
Mr. Kelly takes issue with this implication that Roosevelt, Kennedy, and Truman had diplomatic chats with megalomaniacal enemies.
The closest historical analogue to Sen. Obama's expressed desire to meet with no preconditions with anti-American dictators such as Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is the trip British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and French premier Eduoard Daladier took to Munich in September of 1938 to negotiate "peace in our time" with Adolf Hitler. That didn't work out so well.
And the List of Reasons I Cannot Conceive of Voting for Obama gets ever longer...