First Foreign Policy
Los Angeles — Interestingly, foreign and security affairs rated mention by both candidates as they answered the question, What are your principal policy differences? Obama’s choice of words was, as always, original. He said he wanted to “elevate” diplomacy so that it serves U.S. interests. Hillary sounded a note similar to language that Madeleine Albright used in remarks in San Francisco last week. She said she wanted a “realistic and optimistic” foreign policy. We should not “put the prestige of the Presidency on the line” by committing to meet with the worlds worst dictators in the first year.