Earlier this week Sen. Barack Obama tried to defend his lack of real foreign policy credentials.
He said his “life experience” gave him a better feel for international issues than most candidates gain from official trips to other nations.
By life experience, of course, he means the four years he spent living in Indonesia when he was a child.
“Probably the strongest experience I have in foreign relations is the fact I spent four years overseas when I was a child in Southeast Asia,” he said Monday.
Uh. Wow. Note to Obama — if you’re touting your “strongest” foreign policy street cred as the time you spent overseas as a child — you might as well just admit that you Have. No. Foreign. Policy. Experience.
Even Sen. Clinton is laughing at you:
SHENANDOAH, Iowa — Hillary Rodham Clinton ridiculed Democratic rival Barack Obama on Tuesday for his contention that living in a foreign country as a child helped give him a better understanding of the foreign policy challenges facing the U.S.
“Voters will have to judge if living in a foreign country at the age of 10 prepares one to face the big, complex international challenges the next president will face,” Clinton said. “I think we need a president with more experience than that, someone the rest of the world knows, looks up to and has confidence in.”
Next thing you know, Barack will be claiming that his strongest experience for dealing with the war on drugs came from all those years where he was “high all the time“.
A friend of mine refers to him, sarcastically, as Senator Gravitas.
A few months ago, I think it was after the debate televised on Food TV(or was it the Nickelodeon debate?), B. Hussein Obama and Mrs. William Jefferson Clinton were trading barbs, as he criticized her for voting for the war with Iraq. His criticism of her still rings in my ear, as an example of his lack of understanding of how things work, and was also the last time I listened to anything he had to say. He criticized her for her vote, then he said if he were President, he would never authorize going to war, without including a plan on how to end it.(!??!) I heard him say that on a phone interview, and read it again the next day, and no one countered with the obvious.
There is always a plan on how to end a war, you oxygen stealing plebe, it’s called….VICTORY!
/sheesh…what a macaroon
Left by no2liberals on November 21st, 2007 at 6:31 am