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WHICH RICH ELITIST WILL BEST FIGHT THE UFOS? The space monsters will kill us all, but which candidate will make us feel better about it? [Political Machine]

In a controversial address at Columbia University School of Law on Tuesday, the controversial contrarian and former Obama advisor Samantha Power admitted she was sorry about calling Hillary Clinton a monster that one time. However, she did not request backsies on any of the other shocking garbage she uttered in her tenure as Barack Obama’s foreign policy wonk. MORE »

Our favorite dumb presidential candidate, John “WALNUTS!” McCain, delivered a “major foreign policy address” today, and it was about war and diplomacy, the latter of which he will never use. Since the media is distracted by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, McCain can say (and has said!) all sorts of raving dementia-babble and no one will care, because he is a Maverick. But just for kicks, what hilarious things did he say in his speech? MORE »

The story about Hillary Clinton’s harrowing 1996 trip to Bosnia with esteemed international dignitaries Chelsea Clinton, Sinbad and Sheryl Crow pops up occasionally in the news. To the untrained reader, that trip might seem like the sort of diplomacy-lite errand that First Ladies occasionally run for their husbands. But for Hillary Clinton, that experience makes her tested and ready to serve on Day One. And now another Obama advisor is cheating by bringing up this visit, again, with the press. MORE »

Now this is a peculiar strategy for the Clinton campaign. They seem to be eschewing their central Obama attacks — his kindergarten record, horrific plagiarism, being a Negro — for a criticism of his foreign policy judgment, and they’re using “solid evidence” from his Senate career to support it. Isn’t that mean and unfair of Hillary Clinton? Check out this new “issues-based” ad after the jump. MORE »

The cultish Washington Times today featured a front page tell-all about Barack Obama’s military inexperience, and how it has led him to have strange opinions. The Times quoted all sorts of neocon hawks in the military, who believe that Barack Obama’s youthful ignorance on national security has led to him to such wild conclusions as “the surge isn’t winning the war,” “we should withdraw from Iraq at some point” and “the Muslim religion will not bomb America if we act nice to it.” The reliable Washington Times, once again, gets to the heart of the election: How can we elect a man so inexperienced that he isn’t a neocon? MORE »

“The head of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards dismissed the possibility of U.S. military action against Iran and warned that his forces would respond with an ‘even more decisive’ strike if attacked, an Iranian news agency reported Friday.” [MSNBC]

Bush’s little chat about how we’re sanctioning Myanmar came with a handy guide to pronouncing the difficult words that come up when you’re discussing foreign policy. So naturally Foreign Policy got a copy of the phonetically written speech, so you can play along at home! Here are some of the many, many words our President doesn’t know how to say: MORE »