Posted on 08/29/2008 1:01:37 PM PDT by Perdogg
To counter opponents’ accusations that he lacks experience in foreign policy, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois often cites his ties to relatives in poor villages in Kenya and the years he spent growing up in Indonesia. Now he has added a new personal detail to that résumé: a trip to Pakistan while a college student.
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Obama’s notion that Palin has zero experience is outrageous given that she is governor of the state of Alaska with an 80-90% approval rating (something that would blow the lid off The Dome if they could even get close to that), and that she is Commander of the Alaska National Guard. That’s not to mention the other credits she has picked up along the way of chairing business related to the oil industry.
My son’s been to Italy, Germany, France, England, Spain, Vietnam, Greece, Japan....He should be President!!
“Now he has added a new personal detail to that résumé: a trip to Pakistan while a college student”.
...Obama’s been to Germany, France and Italy too! At Busch Gardens.
It would not surprise me to see a great cartoon of Obama, holding a big can white-wash and a brush trying to paint over himself.....totally fitting.
Can you not smell the panic over in Obama County?
But but but, has he been to Disneyland? And, more important for a democrat, EuroDisney?
Does ordering the “tour of Italy” at Olive Garden count for anything?
some people actually believe what they read in the new york times, rolling stone, harpers, the Enquirer.
This guy is never going to be able to overcome his inexperience label. It’s all the more delicious when the idiot sends out his surrogates to attach Sarah Palin on it. It’s like they have a complete and total blindspot politically.
To make their guy look appealing ALL they have to come up with is a trip to Pakistan while in college????......One time at band camp.....
or eating at the International House of Pancakes ?
Hows that for a life experience Barry?
So any tourist is now a foreign policy expert? That would qualify the average grad student doing field work in anthropology as a candidate for Secretary of State.
I am tempted to believe this is a spoof article. If it isn’t then Obama has turned himself into a joke.
PS: I also made stops in Georgia, California, Hawaii, Guam, Wake Island, Okinawa and Korea.
I’ve been to Canada a couple of times. Can I be President?
Didn’t I read somewhere about O travelling to Pakistan while on a passport as a citizen of Indonesia?
Actually, this is an interesting trip. Fox ran a biography of Obama on Sunday night and talked about it. He didn’t see fit to mention it in his autobiography. His roommate in college was Pakistani and so were several of his friends. I believe that he remains in touch with at least one of them. And they won’t talk. The show highlighted three college friends; none will talk to the media. I think, IIRC, that two of them, men, are Pakistani.
I was in Mexico City once, can I be President? Or maybe the head of the EPA?
“Obama Says Real-Life Experience Trumps Rivals’ Foreign Policy Credits”
Does this mean Obama’s ready to talk about his past? Like being enrolled in school as a Muslim and studying the Koran? Oh. Not that part.
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