Illinois and Chicago right across the border from Canada? Kinda like how Nevada and Las Vegas are right across the border from Mexico? LoL

Point made - my comment was incorrect. If Chicago isn't close enough to know Canada's system of government, though, should we only expect Canadians to know it?

I recall that in 2000, in a pre-9/11 world, the Boston Globe demanded then-Texas Governor George Bush name the leaders of several foreign nations, with the implication his lacking either the knowledge or the correct pronunciation was disqualifying. Bush at least knew the Mexican leaders.

"As demomoke points out in the comments, Illinois is not "just across the border from Canada" at all"

Begs the whole "just how dumb" questions -- doesn't it? lol I realize you aren't running for President, Jim, but you are putting yourself out there as someone who we should believe knows what they are talking about. A fourth grader knows that Illinois is not across the border from Canada.

Barack is human, just like you and me, Jim. There was a day when you could count on conservative Americans to be honest with their fellow Americans -- this post of yours is patently dishonest.

America deserves better. America deserves a stop to the Republican dishonesty.

Lee, if I make FOUR stupid gaffes in the space of - what? nine or ten days? - I promise to withdraw.

Now, if only you and Obama will agree to those terms . . .

I also acknowledged the error - and corrected the main post - as soon as it came to my attention. You have Obama still defending his idiotic idea of meeting with the leaders of North Korea, Iran, Syria, Cuba, and Venezuela without preconditions in his first year in office.

Is there any mistake you aren't willing to forgive him?

Sorry, the Presidency isn't the place for on-the-job training.

Sorry, the Presidency isn't the place for on-the-job training.

Then we all are in trouble. None of the candidates have any experience in the job they are seeking. Edwards and Clinton have a mere six years experience in elected office. Hillary slept in the White House for eight years, but that hardly counts as experience sitting in the chair.

Additionally, none of the comments Hillary has attacked him on were anything less than reasonable. Hillary herself, in 2006, made almost the identical comment about not nuking Iran that Obama made about not nuking Pakistan. And just about one week after she jumped on him for saying we would act if we had reliable intelligence of high-value terrorist targets in Pakistan Hillary said the same thing.

Perhaps you are confusing "experience" with "hypocracy?"

Is there any mistake you aren't willing to forgive him?

Sure there is, but he hasn't made a mistake on that level. Saying "President" instead of "Prime Minister" certainly doesn't count. A minor slip of the tongue, and you're going to try to act like it's a major deal. Everyone misspeaks now and then.

Prince Rudy is the least experienced candidate on either side. Not only does he have no foriegn policy experience or national level political experience, but he doesn't even have any state level political experience.

Has anyone in history ever gone straight from a mayoral mansion to the White House with no steps between?

If Rudy is the Republican nominee the "inexperienced" meme will help Democrats and hurt Rudy.

Yes, Obama's mistake on Canada was a slip of the tongue. It would worthy of a free pass if he hadn't just made a string of other dumb mistakes on foreign policy. Combine that with ZERO administrative experience and limited legislative experience, and his mistakes are going to draw scrutiny. Welcome to the spotlight. If Barack can't take the heat . . .

Of the other Democratic candidates, Richardson has extensive experience as Governor and Energy Secretary, Biden and Dodd both have several times Obama's legislative experience, and Hillary deserves some credit for 12 years in Arkansas and 8 in the White House - she wasn't hosting teas and baking cookies, after all: she was sticking her nose in everywhere. That counts for something against Obama's . . . nothing.

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PopeStephen ~ Rudy was a two-term Mayor of New York City, which has an economy larger than 41 states and a budget larger than 39. Before that, he was US Attorney for the District of New York, probably the biggest Justice Department job outside of DC.

Jim,

There was no "string of other dumb mistakes on foreign policy." It's not a "dumb mistake" to say to the world that America is not soooo barking mad that we would be willing to launch a nuclear first strike against a soveriegn nuclear power in order to kill some criminals. At a time when most of the world thinks we are a nation of nutcases it's not such a bad idea to let them know we are at least not THAT crazy.

And Hillary Clinton said almost the exact same thing about the possibility of nuking Iran in 2006.

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2007/8/9/145005.shtml

Then on the Pakistan issue she turned around and said the exact same thing he said a little over a week later.

Can you say hypocrit? But there are lots of HillBillies who will honestly believe it was a 'naive and irresponsible' gaffe when Obama said it, but it was the height of well thought-out wisdom when she said the same thing.

And no, she doesn't deserve any credit for, as you quaintly put it, "sticking her nose in everything." She WAS one of the more involved First Lady's we've seen, but she wasn't a member of her husbands administration, she didn't attend cabinet meetings, she wasn't privy to classified information, she didn't make the decisions, and the only official job her husband gave her (the health care task force) she screwed up so badly she helped usher in the Republican revolution of '94, she left such a stench around the issue that no-one else was willing to touch it for 14 years.

If we were trying to elect someone who would be good at "sticking her nose into everything" then Hillary really would be our girl, but we're trying to elect the next leader of the free world and she has never shown leadership beyond having a finely tuned nose for politics.

The only person that is ignorant, Jim, is you. Sorry, the days of your not paying taxes and 15% capital gains taxes on the backs of hard working Americans is nearly over. Do you realize what this country is going through? A trillion dollars on Iraq, tainted food and other products from China (our true enemy), and our ports are not safe -- still!
Change will come in the face of a lefty named Obama.

He called the Prime Minister of Canada the President of Canada. Hmmmm...did he use the word strategery? Get a clue.