[Vision2020] Obama's foreign policy experience

[g. crabtree]

What a laugh! By Barry's standard our own Chasuk would make a far better president. I seem to recall that he lived overseas for about 14 years or so and even arranged to do it as an adult. Ready for that 3:00 A.M. phone call Chas?

g
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jeff Harkins 
  To: vision2020 at moscow.com 
  Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2008 7:28 PM
  Subject: [Vision2020] Obama's foreign policy experience


  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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