[Vision2020] Obama's foreign policy experience

[Jeff Harkins]

In Obama's own words, here is how he describes his foreign policy experience:

"CLARION, Iowa ­ Democrat Barack Obama said 
Monday his childhood experience in Asia and his 
family in Kenya give him a greater foreign policy 
understanding than politicians who merely take junkets to other countries.

The first-term Illinois senator is frequently 
asked whether he has the foreign policy 
credentials to be president, and he faced the 
question again at a town hall meeting in Clarion.

‘‘I spent four years living overseas when I was a 
child living in Southeast Asia,’’ said Obama, who 
was born in Hawaii and spent four years in 
Indonesia. ‘‘My father is from Kenya. That’s 
where I got my name. He’s passed away now, but I still have family.’’

‘‘A lot of my knowledge about foreign affairs is 
not what I just studied in school. It’s actually 
having the knowledge of how ordinary people in these other countries live.’’

Reported in the Chicago Sun Times (AP, Nov 19, 2007) 
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