The Des Moines Register's David Yepsen attended Barack Obama's foreign policy speech in Iowa on Tuesday. Yepsen's review is positive:
Invoking Kennedy imagery is a delicate thing for any politician to do but Obama succeeded in pulling it off. The Illinois senator used the fifth anniversary of an anti-war speech he gave in Chicago to draw contrasts with his chief rival for the nomination, Hillary Clinton. He brought former Kennedy speechwriter and aide Ted Sorensen to Iowa to introduce him for the speech in Des Moines and again in Coralville. Sorensen invoked parallels with the Cuban missile crisis decisions made by the young President Kennedy.
The way Yepsen sees it, Obama must convince dovish Iowa Democrats that he is sufficiently antiwar and also capable of leading the free world after a little less than three years in the U.S. Senate. "Inexperience" never seems to have bothered voters in the past, however, and Obama is more dovish than his main competition. By Yepsen's standards, Obama is in pretty good shape.