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From Keith Porter, for About.com

Obama: Clean Break With the Past or Carter-esque Naivete?

Wednesday July 9, 2008
Senator Barack Obama (D-IL)
Senator Barack Obama (D-IL)
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By most conventional measures of an American presidential candidate, Senator Barack Obama's foreign policy credentials are light. He has served four years on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and made several overseas trip, including a much covered visit to Africa in 2006. But beyond that there are few professional experiences which have informed his views of the world. He doesn't have the direct experiences of... Read more.

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