Obama Links Economy to Foreign Policy
The Washington Post | July 28, 2008
By Ed O'Keefe
Ahead of a week of campaign appearances focused on the economy, Sen. Barack Obama suggested Sunday that there is a domestic economic benefit to improved U.S. relations with the rest of the world."When you think about the big problems we face here at home, they're connected to the problems we face abroad," Obama said before an audience of several hundred here at the quadrennial "Unity: Journalists of Color" conference. A broader international effort in Afghanistan and a drawdown of U.S. forces in Iraq, he added, have the potential to "free up money to keep folks in their homes" and provide funds for other domestic concerns.
