Obama’s bad ideas
SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images Though most of the campaign coverage this week has focused on candidates’ personal failings and campaign blunders, the obvious fact remains that both Barack Obama and John McCain have proposed a host of dramatic new policies, and a lot of them don’t make much sense. For this week’s list, FP runs down ...
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Though most of the campaign coverage this week has focused on candidates’ personal failings and campaign blunders, the obvious fact remains that both Barack Obama and John McCain have proposed a host of dramatic new policies, and a lot of them don’t make much sense. For this week’s list, FP runs down ten of Obama’s most misguided, pandering, and potentially disastrous policy ideas. Next week, it’ll be McCain’s turn.
Feel free to use this post to comment on the list. We would love to hear defenses of these proposals as well as more dumb ideas that we may have missed.
Joshua Keating was an associate editor at Foreign Policy. Twitter: @joshuakeating
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