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Argument: Obama's conditionless meetings would involve diplomatic preparations
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Barrack Obama said on May 20th, 2008, "I would be willing to meet with Iranian leaders if we had done sufficient preparations for that meeting."[1]
Time. May 22nd, 2008. - "Obama has also been explicit about the need to start with lower-level talks, a presidential summit coming only if there were progress in those negotiations."[2]
The Kansas City Star reported Obama saying in August, 2007, "The argument was that I would invite Hugo Chavez over to my house, and we'd pop open a beer and we'd start talking…That's the lack of preparation. There's no one that would meet another head of state without preparation. Preconditions refer to something specific. We've refused to talk to Iran until they meet preconditions."[3]
The Washington Post reported Barack Obama saying in July, 2007, "Nobody expects that you would suddenly just sit down with them for coffee without having done the appropriate groundwork. But the question was: Would you meet them without preconditions? And part of the Bush doctrine has been to say no."[4]
