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Nobel Peace Laureate Endorses Obama @ Quinnipiac University

Yesterday evening (10/27) Nobel Peace Laureate Rigoberta Menchu, from Guatemala, endorsed Obama at a speech given at Quinnipiac University. Menchu recieved her Nobel prize for her work in promoting the human and civil rights of indigineous peoples and women. She ran unsuccessfully for president of Guatemala last year; taking 3.5% of the vote with no money to campaign.

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Obama must start painting the Bush we remember and tie in McCain NOW

Has anyone noticed how goofily detached and irrelevant Bush has become lately?

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ATTACK LIES: "Obama did nothing on Senate Foreign Relations Comm"

They're misinformed. Especially those who are spreading a rumor that "When given the opportunity to do something, on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee overseeing Afghanistan, he did nothing. Zip. Never held a meeting."

Here's the facts in a short enough answer for an elevator ride:

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Foreign Affairs

Remember McCain trip to Israel with Joe Lieberman , It seamed that everytime he spoke Lieberman had to wisper in his ear and correct him on atleast 3 diffrent issues. Just run a spot and keep showing Lieberman correcting him with a caption about alot of foreign affairs experince / maybe he should have picked Joe instead at least he would be there to correct him

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Release A Detailed Plan on How you will Talk with our Enemies

You and your camapign should release a detailed plan on how exactly you will meet with leaders from rogue nations such as Iran and North Korea, what general preparations you will make before these meetings, what goals you will be trying to achieve respective of the countries,the tone used, and the benefits that could be attained from these meetings.

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Obama Should Hold His NATO Subcommitte Meeting

An issue that came up in the Ohio debate, and one that Clinton slammed him on, was the fact that Obama is on the Foreign Relations subcommittee on European Affairs. The Clinton and McCain campaigns have already made an issue of the fact that Obama has never held any significant meetings of this group. The group has a guiding influence over NATO's involvement in places like Afghanistan.

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Challenge McCain to a foreign relations test

An objective exam covering current events in the world could be created and given to both candidates. The results would then be made available to the public. I think that even though the conventional wisdom is that John McCain knows more about foreign affairs, it's simply not true.

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