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Foreign Policy Debate - Relations with Russia: How do you...Uploaded by: CSPAN Video Description: http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library/vidLink.php?b=1222481747 &e=1222482347&n=002 SEN. OBAMA: Hold on. I am not parsing words. SEN. MCCAIN: He's -- he's parsing words, my friends. SEN. OBAMA: I am using the same words that your advisers use. Please go ahead. MR. LEHRER: New lead question -- SEN. MCCAIN: (Chuckles.) MR. LEHRER: -- Russia, goes to you, two minutes, Senator Obama. How do you see the relationship with Russia? Do you see them as a competitor? Do you see them as an enemy? Do you see them as a potential partner? SEN. OBAMA: Well, I think that given what's happened over the last several weeks and months, our entire Russian approach has to be evaluated, because a resurgent and very aggressive Russia is a threat to the peace and stability of the region. Their actions in Georgia were unacceptable. They were unwarranted. And at this point it is absolutely critical for the next president to make clear that we have to follow through on our six-party -- or the six-point cease-fire. They have to remove themselves from South Ossetia and Abkhazia. It is absolutely important that we have a unified alliance and that we explain to the Russians that you cannot be a 21st century superpower or power and act like a 20th century dictatorship. And we also have to affirm all the fledgling democracies in that region -- you know, the Estonians, the Lithuanians, the Latvians, the Poles, the Czechs -- that we are in fact going to be supportive and in solidarity with them in their efforts. They are members of NATO. (View cut data)And to countries like Georgia and the Ukraine, I think, we have to insist that they are free to join NATO if they meet the requ Tags for this video: C-SPAN Debate Foreign Policy Relations Russia with Find more videos in the "News" category See more videos uploaded by CSPAN
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Where is Ron Paul?
give him a break gosh.
i was the same on my first debate too,
it's not as easy as it looks.
especially when you didnt write it down.