Shar
04-08-2008, 13:20
He's INSANE!
Hillary's gaffe's aside, I think we can all agree she's got more foreign policy experience than he does - it's just fact (she undermines herself here frequently however). But to say that he's got more than McCain? Seriously? And then to imply that foreign policy and military (in his words "military thing") experience are one and the same - well, that's just evidence of his lack of experience. I continue to be shocked at the pass Obama is given and the wave of popularity for a man without any experience who is so arrogant.
Obama: No Need For Foreign Policy Help From V.P.
Posted April 7, 2008 | 07:52 AM (EST)
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Last night at a fundraiser in San Francisco, Barack Obama took a question on what he's looking for in a running mate. "I would like somebody who knows about a bunch of stuff that I'm not as expert on," he said, and then he was off and running. "I think a lot of people assume that might be some sort of military thing to make me look more Commander-in-Chief-like. Ironically, this is an area--foreign policy is the area where I am probably most confident that I know more and understand the world better than Senator Clinton or Senator McCain."
"It's ironic because this is supposedly the place where experience is most needed to be Commander-in-Chief. Experience in Washington is not knowledge of the world. This I know. When Senator Clinton brags 'I've met leaders from eighty countries'--I know what those trips are like! I've been on them. You go from the airport to the embassy. There's a group of children who do native dance. You meet with the CIA station chief and the embassy and they give you a briefing. You go take a tour of a plant that [with] the assistance of USAID has started something. And then--you go."
"You do that in eighty countries--you don't know those eighty countries. So when I speak about having lived in Indonesia for four years, having family that is impoverished in small villages in Africa--knowing the leaders is not important--what I know is the people. . . ."
"I traveled to Pakistan when I was in college--I knew what Sunni and Shia was [sic] before I joined the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. . . ."
"Nobody is entirely prepared for being Commander-in-Chief. The question is when the 3 AM phone call comes do you have somebody who has the judgment, the temperament to ask the right questions, to weigh the costs and benefits of military action, who insists on good intelligence, who is not going to be swayed by the short-term politics. By most criteria, I've passed those tests and my two opponents have not."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mayhill-fowler/obama-says-no-to-foreign_b_95357.html
see also for Clinton's response:
(from the link below)
Clinton, speaking with FOX News Tuesday morning, said she was baffled by the claim.
“I’m somewhat shocked by that since I don’t see any evidence of it,” Clinton said, chuckling. “This is, you know, kind of hard to square with his failure ever to have a single policy hearing on the only responsibility he was given, chairing the European and NATO subcommittee on the Foreign Relations Committee.
“And as he admitted in the last debate, he was too busy running for president to pay attention to what we needed to do to improve our chances in Afghanistan and get NATO more involved. So, you know, I, I ,I don’t, I don’t know, I’m speechless. I mean, you know, making an assertion like that belies the facts and the record.”
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/04/08/clinton-takes-obama-to-task-over-foreign-policy-experience-claim/
Hillary's gaffe's aside, I think we can all agree she's got more foreign policy experience than he does - it's just fact (she undermines herself here frequently however). But to say that he's got more than McCain? Seriously? And then to imply that foreign policy and military (in his words "military thing") experience are one and the same - well, that's just evidence of his lack of experience. I continue to be shocked at the pass Obama is given and the wave of popularity for a man without any experience who is so arrogant.
Obama: No Need For Foreign Policy Help From V.P.
Posted April 7, 2008 | 07:52 AM (EST)
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Last night at a fundraiser in San Francisco, Barack Obama took a question on what he's looking for in a running mate. "I would like somebody who knows about a bunch of stuff that I'm not as expert on," he said, and then he was off and running. "I think a lot of people assume that might be some sort of military thing to make me look more Commander-in-Chief-like. Ironically, this is an area--foreign policy is the area where I am probably most confident that I know more and understand the world better than Senator Clinton or Senator McCain."
"It's ironic because this is supposedly the place where experience is most needed to be Commander-in-Chief. Experience in Washington is not knowledge of the world. This I know. When Senator Clinton brags 'I've met leaders from eighty countries'--I know what those trips are like! I've been on them. You go from the airport to the embassy. There's a group of children who do native dance. You meet with the CIA station chief and the embassy and they give you a briefing. You go take a tour of a plant that [with] the assistance of USAID has started something. And then--you go."
"You do that in eighty countries--you don't know those eighty countries. So when I speak about having lived in Indonesia for four years, having family that is impoverished in small villages in Africa--knowing the leaders is not important--what I know is the people. . . ."
"I traveled to Pakistan when I was in college--I knew what Sunni and Shia was [sic] before I joined the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. . . ."
"Nobody is entirely prepared for being Commander-in-Chief. The question is when the 3 AM phone call comes do you have somebody who has the judgment, the temperament to ask the right questions, to weigh the costs and benefits of military action, who insists on good intelligence, who is not going to be swayed by the short-term politics. By most criteria, I've passed those tests and my two opponents have not."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mayhill-fowler/obama-says-no-to-foreign_b_95357.html
see also for Clinton's response:
(from the link below)
Clinton, speaking with FOX News Tuesday morning, said she was baffled by the claim.
“I’m somewhat shocked by that since I don’t see any evidence of it,” Clinton said, chuckling. “This is, you know, kind of hard to square with his failure ever to have a single policy hearing on the only responsibility he was given, chairing the European and NATO subcommittee on the Foreign Relations Committee.
“And as he admitted in the last debate, he was too busy running for president to pay attention to what we needed to do to improve our chances in Afghanistan and get NATO more involved. So, you know, I, I ,I don’t, I don’t know, I’m speechless. I mean, you know, making an assertion like that belies the facts and the record.”
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/04/08/clinton-takes-obama-to-task-over-foreign-policy-experience-claim/