SocraticGadfly: Biden-Clinton undercutting Obama foreign policy?

August 03, 2009

Biden-Clinton undercutting Obama foreign policy?

Alexander Cockburn argues that recent comments by both in the Middle East and surrounding area are part of deliberate “Israel hawk” stances. But, at the same time, Cockburn argues, after talking about the “disorganized” Obama administration, that “The One” is himself a closet Israel hawk.

That said, Cockburn does this in one of his skirting the edges of anti-Semitism moments.

I do think recent comments by both Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on foreign policy in the Middle East have been wrong; I’m not sure about their deliberateness. As for Obama being a “tool” based on sources of campaign contributions or the background of his chief of staff, this is why you have to take him with a grain of salt at times.

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