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Obama: foreign policy experience is more than who he “had tea with”

At a town hall forum in Coralville, Iowa, Friday, Senator Barack Obama turned the tables on the experience issue. While both Hillary Clinton and the Republicans have called into question Obama’s lack of foreign policy credentials, Obama said that experience is “not just what world leaders I went and talked to at the ambassador’s house; who I had tea with.”

While he didn’t name Hillary Clinton by name, of course, it’s pretty apparent that Obama was knocking his rival’s time as First Lady when she was the “face of US foreign policy.”

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[...] vs Obama: No Tea Party by Aaron Bruns In response to Barack Obama’s claim that foreign policy experience is “not just what world leaders I went tand talked to at the [...]

 

[...] line, however. When ABC corresopndent Kate Snow twice attempted to ask about Barack Obama’s jab at her foreign policy experience today, even an Iowa caucus goer noticed the cold [...]

 
Comment by Denise

Hillary’s career has been riding Bill’s coattails. I did not ask for 2-for-1 then, nor do I ask for it now. That’s just the life-long Clinton strategy that moves Hillary into a position for which she is not qualified.

Bill moves up (think Gov of Arkansas); Hillary moves up with him (think Attorney General of Arkansas). Bill moves up (think President of the US); Hillary moves up with him (think US Senate). See the pattern, women?

Now that we are on the brink of another Clinton co-Presidency, consider what America got with the first one:

• Abuse of the powers of the office of the President
• Granting Presidential pardons to buy Hillary’s election to the Senate. As a woman who made it on my own, Hillary’s need to ride Bill’s coattails and her sense of entitlement makes me doubt her capabilities.
• Hillary’s long-suffering marriage to Bill, enabling a lifetime of sexual trysts and trying to contain the Bimbo eruptions, gives me a President without the backbone to stand up to a man. Hillary claims to be tough enough to play with the boys when, in fact, she is unable to leave a cheating husband. How will she stand up to other male leaders who see this in “Mrs.” Clinton and walk all over her?
• Being married to a former President does not make one qualified to be President.
Hillary has less experience in elected office than Barack. She’s held elected office for one Senate term plus one year and has introduced no major legislation during that time. Is this the kind of experience we want in the Oval Office?
I am not a “Hillary hater;” I am an America lover. Please consider very carefully which candidate the Democratic Party puts on the ballot. The future of this country absolutely depends on it.

 
Comment by David

The recent assasination of Benazir Bhutto reminds us (as if we needed it) that world is a very unstable and dangerous place. With ongoing security risk to this great nation, including threats from Iran, N. Korea, Russia, Al Qaeda, etc., we need to elect someone who is seasoned, experienced and ready to lead from day one. I believe that person is John McCain. I have voted conservative since I voted for Ronald Reagan when I was 18 years old. My fellow conservatives need to take a strong look at McCain’s muscular resume and take a more critical look at someone that may seem more conservative but is a light weight in world affairs. In today’s world, a vote for John McCain makes the most sense to me.

 
Comment by Michael

Wow David, we all know that the only things the leaders of other countries have to do; is find a way to destroy the United States. Snap out of it, there is no threat from Iran, every American should know that; the only people that should be afraid of Iran is Israel and the last time I checked we are not electing the leader of Israel. How long have the claims that Kim Jong is a threat been going on? What has he done? Absolutely nothing. Also, quit the cold war mentality, Russia is not a threat, they only want a piece of the pie except you consider that a threat. Well I guess John McCain’s resume was not muscular enough when he ran against George Bush because he lost, so I am wondering why his resume is flexing its muscles now. If you want a truely conservative candidate; Ron Paul is your man but the best president would be Obama.

 

[...] her enough to do something she refused to do with reporters this morning — hit back at Barack Obama’s crack that foreign policy experience requires more than just “having tea” with world [...]

 

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