Have No Fear Friends!

I just need to clear the air on one topic, I am not endorsing Mitt Romney.

As a matter of fact, I have yet to settle on endorsing any candidate. There is simply no point in doing so now when there is so much more to be heard.

What I was saying was that Mitt Romney made some good points in his essay. Sure, he has plenty of douchebag propagandist jargon, but hidden in between were a couple valuable ideas for our foreign policy. It just goes to show that people can be flat offensively wrong in some areas, and surprisingly inciteful in others. I don't want to discount anyone's ideas.

On the Democratic side, I just finished reading Edwards' essay on foreign policy. I still don't like a lot of his domestic policy choices, but he had a very good essay and several useful ideas on how to improve humanitarian aid. I definitely gained some respect for him.

So here are the current rankings based on the foreign policy essays published so far, in my opinion:

1) John Edwards - Plenty of substantial ideas, some very good, minimal rhetoric.
2) Mitt Romney - Kept idiotic rhetoric reasonably well down, a couple very good ideas.
3) Rudy Giuliani - Actually presented policies, but policies are damaging and offensive, please shut up.
4) Barack Obama - Oh Barack, you sucked so bad on this test. When writing a foreign policy essay, TRY PROPOSING A POLICY! Pie in the sky rhetoric is useless on its own.