After giving Israel the aAmber light approval on its plan to attack Iran,one would view with suspicion the current change of heart in the Bush approach to the Iranian issue.To me,the,“People to people exchange” rhetoric is but another way of keep rubbing the flint until it sparks.If the US wishes to succeed in finding a way out of this quagmire and at the same time, rallying the Arabs to this end,it would have to be courageous enough to negotiate with Iran based on a nuclear free Middle-East, which includes the Israeli nuclear arsenal.Now,can this Administration rise to the challange aqnd save the world a catastrophe in the making????

Never trust friends unconditionally, always keep your enemies closer to the vest. Talk may lead to the walk, to turn ones back to talk leads to the unknown.

I love how Bush is stealing Obama’s thunder and subverting his growing power by implementing all of the things that Obama wants to do as President, but now won’t be able to do because Bush is doing it. Bush vehemently opposed talking with Iran, he listened to Obama, and is now going to do it. He didn’t want to take troops from Iraq and send more to Afghanistan, but is now doing it because that is what Obama said. I love it - Obama is going to be barking up a tree come November, because the GOP can argue they are doing all of the things he will argue for!
Keep it up Obama - you are actually the PResident right now as long as you keep talking, Bush is a lame duck President and a puppet implementing your tasks vicariously.
For as many people who claim to like Obama overseas, they are in for an awful surprise. I can only wonder from their perspective that dealing with America in any way is a love/hate relationship.
We buy their oil and give them tons of money. Now we want to reduce our demand for oil and give them less money. Hmmm, that sounds like an awful deal for them, doesn’t it?
Or, we continue to buy their oil and continue to repress other non industrialized naitons around the world and extend the endangered species list and destroy our world’s envirnoment on a scale large enough to question the next mass extinction.
Obama is the new JFK, and he is in an awful predicament. He is going against everyone’s interests, both foreign and domestic. He is either the new Messiah, or the new pariah. Time will tell.
As far as VP nominations, I would like to see Bob Barr pick a VP, and catch up to the leadership Ralph Nader is displaying by not wasting nay time. I would like to see those two individuals go head to head in a serious formal debate, without Mccain or Obama, because America needs true leadership, not candidates that focus too heavily on whether or not racism still exists or how funny a candidate should be in lieu of this New Yorker journal picture. We need a true leader that will start to address concerns we suffering Americans have right now. We cannot wait to pick one. Bob Barr and Ralph Nader have so much potential to shine through the crap the others are trying to pull, and I don’t know what they are waiting for.