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.
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?
but where has he been? ... no not since he was taken on a carefully planned trip he himself discounted..
Obama's words on travel.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/10/us/politics/10obama.html“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.”
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?