Probably the strongest experience I have in foreign relations is the fact that I spent four years living overseas when I was a child in southeast Asia. ~Barack Obama
I forgot this is supposed to be reassuring and make us want Obama to be President. I’ve been reading The Economist since I was 10–do I get to be Secretary of State?
So his strongest experience isn’t the work that he’s done with Sen. Lugar on Russian nukes, or his time on the Foreign Relations Committee–it’s a four-year period in his childhood. It’s bad enough that he’s made this silly claim before, but it’s just sad that he’s making it into a sort of centerpiece of his foreign policy credentials.
P.S. Living overseas offers a different perspective, I grant you, but how it could be his “strongest” experience really is a mystery.
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November 20th, 2007 at 9:34 pm
p.lukasiak
Obama’s statement was so stupid in so many ways its breath-taking.
I mean, forget about the “my strongest foreign policy credentials are going through puberty overseas” aspect… does Obama really think that its a good idea to remind people that he went to a Muslim school as a kid? And seriously, does he really think that people who haven’t lived overseas can’t fully understand the importance of cultural differences in foreign policy decisions? I mean, if you are from New York City, and you move to rural Arkansas, you might as well be moving to another country in terms of making cultural adjustments. .
After the last 4 days, I don’t see how Obama can be considered a viable Democratic nominee.