Is Obama taking a non-establishment position?

[Bullet1987]

That's what it says on his website.

"A lot of discussion has taken place about Barack’s non-establishment approach to foreign policy since Monday’s debate. Here’s what Barack had to say about his approach in a conference call with reporters this morning:

"It's a debate over the same conventional thinking that led people to authorize the war in Iraq without asking questions… Part of what I believe we have to have is a willingness ... to talk tough, but be tough and smart enough to engage our enemies."

[Colobo]

1. The Real Obama is finally coming out. The fighter- The man that will call Hillary on her BS.

[LSparkle]

4. I agree -- he as much as called her DLC today and I was THRILLED!

People need to be reminded that her big contributors include Wall Street, health insurance companies and pharma. Obama has 250K REAL PEOPLE contributing to his campaign!

[izzie]

2. Just the reason I like him so. I hope we get some one who looks

at the world with new eyes.

[Colobo]

3. Obama will be an improved version of Jimmy Carter.

[goodhue]

5. If so, it was accidental

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[Old and In the Way]

6. I'm agnostic on my primary choice and I think this is a big deal over semantics.

Both will probably engage with all countries and use diplomacy to resolve and mitigate tensions. But Republican pundits are using Hillary's position to attack a basic Democratic/progressive position to use diplomacy with countries that we don't agree with. They want to continue a foreign policy that seems to want Iran to attack our interests...they certainly want to keep the next Democrat from reducing ME tensions and stop the PNAC plan to Americanize the ME. So I do believe that Obama's position on this issue is the right one.....a clean break from the Republican consensus on how we do foreign policy is absolutely the right position for the Democratic nominee, IMHO.

[maximusveritas]

7. On foreign policy, definitely

Other than Kucinich and Obama, all the other candidates are stuck in the mindset of having to prove you're tough, responsible, and willing to demonize and talk tough to our "enemies". I'm tired of that BS. That's the kind of mindset that got us into Iraq. I don't trust any of those other candidates on foreign policy. They've proven their incompetence. For them to pretend that those who were against the war are more naive than them is bordering on the clinically insane.

[illinoisprogressive]

8. Obama is an out of the box thinker and the establishment cannot stand that.

[Peregrine Took]

9. Barack's missed the boat - he should have come out swinging right from the

start and not let himself be defined by Hillary. You can't play it safe.