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Wednesday, April 2, 2008
9/11 Comm. Co-Chairman Lee Hamilton Endorses Obama
9/11 Commission Co-Chairman, and former member of the House of Representatives from Indiana (a key battleground state), today endorsed Barack Obama for President. There is a great write-up this morning in Bloomberg:
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has won the endorsement of one of his party's top foreign policy figures, Lee Hamilton, who hails from Indiana, home to one of the next crucial primary votes.
Hamilton, a former U.S. House member who co-chaired the commission that investigated the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and headed the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, said he was impressed by Obama's approach to national security and foreign policy.
"I read his national security and foreign policy speeches, and he comes across to me as pragmatic, visionary and tough,'' Hamilton said in an interview. "He impresses me as a person who wants to use all the tools of presidential power.''
Hamilton also sided with Obama on two foreign policy stances that have been criticized by Senator Hillary Clinton of New York, Obama's rival for the Democratic nomination, and Senator John McCain of Arizona, the presumptive Republican nominee. Both have dismissed the Illinois senator, saying he doesn't have enough experience to deal with critical foreign policy matters.
"He wavers from seeming to believe that mediation and meetings without preconditions can solve some of the world's most intractable problems, to advocating rash, unilateral military action without cooperation from our allies in the most sensitive region of the world,'' Clinton said Feb. 25 in Washington.
Hamilton said he agreed with Obama's position on meeting with U.S. adversaries such as the leaders of Iran without conditions. Also, Obama's consideration of unilateral military action against terrorist hideouts in Pakistan, is already U.S. policy, Hamilton said.
Read More: Obama Wins Backing of 9/11 Commission Co-Chairman Lee Hamilton
Posted by Metavirus at 4/02/2008 10:15:00 AM
Tags: 9/11 Commission , Barack Obama , Case for Obama , Election 2008 , Endorsements , Foreign Policy , Lee Hamilton , Primaries
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