Justin Webb

Justin Webb is the BBC's North America editor and according to Iain Dale managed to ignore the Republican primary on last night's 10 o'clock news. His blog has a piece asking "My question on Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee is how, when America is at war on several fronts, when Pakistan is on the brink, when Kenya is teetering, when the Middle East is, well, the Middle East; how in this case can America seriously contemplate electing one of two men who have zero foreign policy experience?"

Of course what he is really questioning is how the American Democrats can not be voting for Hilary Clinton after all the effort the BBC have been putting into supporting her campaign.

I do like one of the comments on the above link, in reply to his posting:

"10. At 07:37 AM on 04 Jan 2008, John Backhouse wrote:
Steady on Mr Webb. You are ALWAYS telling Americans what they should be doing and sneering at everything they do. I really don't remember you complaining about Tony Blair or Bill Clinton's lack of foreign policy experience. Did you? I don't think you did. The fact is that you wanted them to select Hilary and now you've got the grumps. This democracy thing, eh? Why can't the BBC just rule the world instead?
Hilary gained no more experience of foreign policy faffing around as Bill's wife than I have of playing first oboe by watching my wife do it. She has no experience but then that wouldn't bother you as she's he candidate the Beeb is backing.
Bah! Come home and send a lad with a laptop to report some basic facts and get on with summat useful. Please."