[Vision2020] Obama's foreign policy experience

[Jeff Harkins]

Oh for heavens sake - spare us from that line of 
bilge.  Obama was a young child when he lived 
overseas. The transference would be minimal - not zero, but minimal.

I like g's contribution - let's hold your 
"foreign policy experience" up as the litmus test.

At 07:58 PM 8/30/2008, you wrote:
>On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 19:28, Jeff Harkins <jeffh at moscow.com> wrote:
>
> > "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.
>
>And he is right, of course, as anyone who has had the enlightening
>experience of actually living outside the US -- as a child or as an
>adult -- would know.
>
>Political junkets are pathetically contrived dog and pony shows -
>photo opportunities -- that reveal exactly as much as the politico
>handlers want to be revealed.  Useless and stage-managed.  Spoon-fed
>pablum.  You get the idea.
>
>Chas