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Friday, March 07, 2008

The Samantha Power interview that caused her to have to resign from the Obama campaign had some more interesting comments than referring to Hillary as a "monster." She also said that Obama probably wouldn't pull out of Iraq immediately as he has said he would in his campaign. Instead, after he was in office, he would probably change his view and continue the effort. This reminds me of the JFK campaign. He claimed that Russia was far ahead of the US in missile technology, which he rferred to as "the missile gap." Eisenhower gave JFK all of the available intelligence that showed the US was far ahead, but JFK persisted, and the issue swung the election to him. After he was in office, JFK quietly said there is no missile gap, and that was the end of the story. Basically he lied in the campaign and got elected. (There is a differnece in JFK's lie and President Bush's so-called "lies," since Kennedy knew what he was saying was not true, but Bush had no way of knowing that the intelligence estiamtes he had been given were wrong.)

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