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Where has he been?

Steve

Well-known member
Over the last few weeks Obama and the liberal media has portrayed Palin's lack of foreign travel as her lack of foreign policy...

but where has he been? ... no not since he was taken on a carefully planned trip he himself discounted..

Obama's words on travel.
“Experience in Washington is not knowledge of the world,” he continued, provoking laughter among those present. “This I know. When Senator Clinton brags, ‘I’ve met leaders from 80 countries,’ I know what those trips are like. I’ve been on them. You go from the airport to the embassy. There’s a group of children who do a native dance. You meet with the C.I.A. station chief and the embassy and they give you a briefing. You go take a tour of plant that” with “the assistance of Usaid has started something. And then, you go.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/10/us/politics/10obama.html

in his own words... “Experience in Washington is not knowledge of the world,”

so where has he been... Hawaii is a state.. so even though he claims it broadened his views.. we can't really count it as foreign travel..

that leaves Jakarta Indonesia. he was five.. and returned to Hawaii (a state) by the age of ten..

Can we really trust the foreign policy judgment of a ten year old? ..

so what does that leave... Washington experience travel, and a maybe resume' building trip to visit family in Kenya.. which even in his own words doesn't add to world experience..

oh and that trip to Pakistan he doesn't really want to bring up..

According to his campaign staff, Mr. Obama visited Pakistan in 1981, on the way back from Indonesia, where his mother and half-sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, were living. He spent “about three weeks” there, Mr. Obama’s press secretary, Bill Burton, said, staying in Karachi with the family of a college friend, Mohammed Hasan Chandoo, but also traveling to Hyderabad, in India.

does the side trip to a friends home country count as foreign policy experience. while a side trip to Germany while visiting Kuwait does not?
 

fff

Well-known member
You're not keeping up, Steve. Obama visited Afghanistan, Iraq, Kuwait, France, Germany, and Israel this year. He spoke with heads of state and to large crowds. He visited with US soldiers. He met the Prime Minister of Iraq who agrees with Obama's plan to get out of Iraq in about 19 months. Perhaps you missed McCain bashing him being uppity to make that trip AFTER HE TAUNTED Obama for never having been out of the country?

BTW, Sarah Palin's claim that most VPs had never met a head of state before elected is also wrong.
 

Steve

Well-known member
fff
Obama visited Afghanistan, Iraq, Kuwait, France, Germany, and Israel this year. He spoke with heads of state and to large crowds.

your ignoring Barack"s own words then...

Obama's words on travel.
Quote:
“Experience in Washington is not knowledge of the world,” he continued, provoking laughter among those present. “This I know. When Senator Clinton brags, ‘I’ve met leaders from 80 countries,’ I know what those trips are like. I’ve been on them. You go from the airport to the embassy. There’s a group of children who do a native dance. You meet with the C.I.A. station chief and the embassy and they give you a briefing. You go take a tour of plant that” with “the assistance of Usaid has started something. And then, you go.”


so which is it,.... is he wrong?.. or did he lie to you?..

travel in the official capacity is a joke.. even Barack knows that.. a guided tour at best.... but if you disagree and or do you think Barack lied to you on this one issue,..

if he is wrong..or worse lied to you..then why trust him on other more important issues?
 

aplusmnt

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I think Palin was getting stuff done while Obama was playing Basketball in Germany........When she did go to Germany though, I believe she went and saw the troops?

I would want a leader that went to see the injured troops when in a land where so many of our injured troops are, instead of playing some basketball at the Gym.
 
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