Barack Obama & John McCainFrom U.S. News And World Report
The race between Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain is still in its early days, and Iran's firebrand president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has already taken center stage. Not so much for the threat he represents but as a cudgel for the candidates to whack away at each other's perceived weakness. It began when Obama suggested last year that he would be willing to meet with some of America's biggest enemies, including Ahmadinejad, without preconditions. McCain used Obama's remarks to portray the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee as naive and inexperienced. "It's hard to see what such a summit with President Ahmadinejad would actually gain, except an earful of anti-Semitic rants," McCain told one audience. Obama replies that he would hold such meetings only if he thought they would serve a purpose and has tried to turn these attacks around to link his GOP rival more directly to the unpopular President Bush. "It is time to once again make American diplomacy a tool to succeed, not just a means of containing failure."
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My Comment: The legacy of President Bush will be 9/11 and his response to it. The problems that were present when he first became President are still there today. The only difference is that September 11 made him and the American people focused on what was (and is) a serious threat to America.
The next President will be inheriting this evolving and rapidly changing situation. The next President will not have the luxury of pushing forward his agenda .... like President Bush he will be inheriting the agenda that Al Qaeda forced upon the American people seven years ago.
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