Posts tagged with 'judgement'

False Dichotomy: Experience or Judgment

POSTED BY CHRIS BROUSSARD, APRIL 10 2008 12:56 PM | PERMALINK

Last night, Chris Bowers over at Talk Left asserted that Democrats should not argue over experience and that they should be focusing the campaign on judgment and ideology. He was commenting on an exchange between Obama and Hillary:

Obama on his choice for Vice President: "I think a lot of people assume that might be some kind of military thing to make me look more commander-in-chief-like. Ironically, this is an area -- foreign policy is the area where I am probably most confident that I know more and...
What Judgment?

POSTED BY CHRIS BROUSSARD, FEBRUARY 27 2008 10:53 AM | PERMALINK

Invariably, when it comes to foreign policy, Obama cites his supposedly superior judgment: he opposed Iraq in 2002. And he did it again last night in the Ohio debate (around 2:28 of the clip). Somehow, this judgment is supposed to allay any concern about his foreign policy bona fides.

But isn't judgement the process of taking information, considering its implications, weighing the costs and benefits and then deciding a course of action? In 2002, Obama was missing one important thing: the...