Check out this NYT report from late 2007 in which Obama defended himself from attacks on his foreign policy experience.
Clinton Challenges Obama on Foreign ExperienceKey Points:
New York Times
By PATRICK HEALY
Published: November 21, 2007
SHENANDOAH, Iowa, Nov. 20 — Fog may have diverted Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s plane from her campaign stop here on Tuesday, but that did not prevent her from continuing her attacks on Senator Barack Obama’s experience.
It was an odd moment. Mrs. Clinton, her voice piped in over a sound system, apologized for missing the event, expressed concern about the safety of food and toys from overseas and, pivoting off the overseas topic, tweaked Mr. Obama for saying on Monday that living overseas as a child had increased his experience in foreign relations.
Mrs. Clinton, who this week in Iowa has been making an issue of Mr. Obama’s experience, said the next president would face two wars and fraying alliances. She said she had traveled broadly and had “met with countless world leaders” and knew many of them personally.
“Now voters will judge whether living in a foreign country at the age of 10 prepares one to face the big, complex international challenges that the next president will face,” Mrs. Clinton said. “I think we need a president with more experience than that.”
That was apparently a response to Mr. Obama’s citing his years in Indonesia as a child as contributing to his knowledge “of how ordinary people in these other countries live.”
“I sit on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,” he said. “So I have frequent interaction with world leaders who come to visit here, and I take trips on various fact-finding missions, whether it’s to Iraq or Russia or Africa. But you know, probably, the strongest experience I have in foreign relations is the fact that I spent four years living overseas when I was a child in Southeast Asia.”
Bill Burton, a spokesman for Mr. Obama, said in response to Mrs. Clinton: “Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld have spent time in the White House and traveled to many countries as well. But along with Hillary Clinton, they led us into the worst foreign policy disaster in a generation.”
1) Obama's overseas experience is an embarrassment for anyone seeking the office of President of the United States.
2) Obama has been to Iraq once, but not for 890 days, and has refused to personally experience the dramatic changes that have taken place on the ground. (Source: family member currently on second tour of duty in Iraq)
3) Although Obama admits being a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he somehow forgets to mention he is chair of its European Task Force. Maybe this is because he has abdicated his responsibility and not conducted a single hearing
4) Europeans complain they know nothing about Obama and find him inaccessible beyond the occasional phone-call. (Presumably this is because when they visit DC, he is campaigning in Iowa as his team has been doing since October 2004. Obama himself admitted spending eight months in Iowa when he offered it as an excuse in South Dakota for confusing Sioux City with Sioux Falls...well worth watching the first 120 seconds or so ...very funny.
5) During these exchanges with Hillary, Obama who at the time was clearly scraping the barrel to fill out his empty resume, (and throwing in anything remotely foreign but leftovers from a Chinese meal,) somehow forgot to mention a three-week trip he took to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan in 1981. He also failed to mention the trip in either of his two lengthy autobiographies (700 pages or so).
This lie by omission was exposed when the going got tough during the Primaries and it was clear that voters were increasingly leaning towards Senator Clinton. Then and only then did he accidentally let slip that he had spent 3 weeks in 1981 visiting that country. Taken together with an earlier comment that the United States should unilaterally and preemptively attack Pakistan, I believe Obama needs to explain who he met in Pakistan, what agreements, if any, did he make and explain why he was anxious to cover-up his trip to that country.
As previously defined by Obama WTF certain lies by omission are considered by the Documented lies panel as candidates to be categorized as DOCUMENTED LIES...see the PS to Documented lie #38 for a further example and explanation.
Now we've reached 52 Documented Lies, standby to get your Obama WTF Pack of 52 Lies.
It will obviously include 52 cards and a joker. Any suggestions for who's face should be on the joker?
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2 comments:
How about Rev. Wright? What? He's already on the Deck? Darn!
OK, what about Mo?
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