A question - will a change from Bush to Kerry make a blind bit of difference to US foreign policy?

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I'm a silly UK person, so I don't understand these things, but I'd have thought that the foreign policy is decided by people OTHER than the president and his people, and that a change to a Democrat wouldn't really help much.

But as I say, I don't understand these things.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Thursday, 28 October 2004 12:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Why would foreign policy be decided (and, more importantly, ratified and implemented) outside of the President's Cabinet?

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 28 October 2004 12:42 (twenty-one years ago)

a change is ~~as good~~ better than the same old shit

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Thursday, 28 October 2004 12:43 (twenty-one years ago)

foreign policy is decided by the president and his cabinet. kerry would appoint different people. So, bye bye Rumsfeld, Rice, and Wolfowitz

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 28 October 2004 12:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I mean, if the President didn't have any say over major policy decisions like foreign policy, what would be the point of having an elected President?

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 28 October 2004 12:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Same goal different methods Johhny. Prepare for a landslide of Chomsky/Vidal elite establishment conspircay theories...

― Kiwi, Thursday, 28 October 2004 13:00 (twenty-one years ago)

what same goal? the 'new american century'? not quite.

― m. (mitchlnw), Thursday, 28 October 2004 13:09 (twenty-one years ago)

err... national self interest as determined by big business?

― Kiwi, Thursday, 28 October 2004 13:14 (twenty-one years ago)

what same goal? the 'new american century'? not quite.

Dan's caesaropapist regime will institute the Nude American Century.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 28 October 2004 13:15 (twenty-one years ago)

cant get any worse, so lets hope so

― lukey (Lukey G), Thursday, 28 October 2004 13:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Perry voters much rarer in North, study finds.

xpost.

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 28 October 2004 14:06 (twenty-one years ago)

http://static.vidvote.com/movies/bushuncensored.mov

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 28 October 2004 14:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I really do think there will a signifigant foreign policy change, just because he won't be surrounded by the same ill-advised advisors. The preemptive strategy is deeply intertwined in the Rumsy-Cheney-Condy axis, and it's unlikely that Kerry would surround himself with such hawks.

Though I am a partisan Democrat, I truly don't think Republicans make very good executives, at least not since Eisenhower. They function well in the Senate and Congress, but they make shitty presidents. Nixon, Reagan, Bush Sr, Bush Jr... Pretty dark periods for the average American.

(Before you all start Johnson bashing, remember Civil Rights, the War on Poverty, and the Great Society!")

― andy, Thursday, 28 October 2004 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)

The more I read about Eisenhower's presidency, the less I like him.

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 28 October 2004 16:00 (twenty-one years ago)

That Bush clip says so fucking much in a few seconds it's frightening.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 28 October 2004 21:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Who gets blamed more for starting the cold war - eisenhower or truman? Im not big on US history..

― still bevens (bscrubbins), Thursday, 28 October 2004 21:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Stalin and Truman.

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 28 October 2004 21:46 (twenty-one years ago)

The Commies. (x-post)

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Thursday, 28 October 2004 21:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I love that Bush clip. Makes him seem almost likable.

― Hank Tenbeer (kenan), Thursday, 28 October 2004 22:16 (twenty-one years ago)

A man of the people

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 28 October 2004 22:41 (twenty-one years ago)

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