Adam B. Kushner
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Aug 28, 2008 01:33 PM
DENVER, Colo. -- Just now at a panel of Barack Obama's foreign policy team (Adam Smith, Tony Lake, Richard Danzig, Susan Rice, Greg Craig, Gayle Smith) hosted by the National Democratic Institute, Rice -- summarizing Obama's foreign policy ideas -- made a derogatory aside about John McCain's call for a "league of democracies." Whereupon Lake dispatched a (mildly worded but unmistakable) rebuke before the audience: "Senator Obama has not taken a position on a concert of democracies, and I think a campaign is not the place to work it out."
Let the ideological jockeying begin!
P.S. -- Rice's comments just now marked the sixth time (but who's counting?) this week that I've heard a speaker refer to Obama's vice-presidential pick as "Senator Obiden." The portmanteau inspired a round of guffaws from the small Irish delegation brought here by NDI. My guess is that it's only a matter of time before "Obiden" becomes conservative shorthand for the Democratic ticket. I'll keep my ears open for it in Minneapolis next week during the GOP convention.
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