How much foreign experience did Barry Soreto have before he became president. No one bit. For that matter, how much foeign experiernce did GW Bush have before he became president. Again, not one bit. Unless you’ve been a vice president, you don’t have “foreign policy” experience that would make you an expert in any type of foreign affairs. I might add that McCain touted himself as some sort of expert on foreign affairs. I often wondered why. He had never sat on any foreign relations committees.
McCain was just around so damned long he had more background in foreign affairs, which I agree was overly touted by him. The best thing a candidate can do is know the basics, don’t get drawn into places where that inexperience is so glaring. Cain wandered around on the China nuclear thing and gave an opening to the “he doesn’t even know...” about China. Notice that Romney and Gingrich don’t leave these kind of openings.