Obama adds College Trip as part of "Foreign Policy Experience"
By Rizzuto

Thu Apr 10, 2008 - Are you serious? He's really reaching on this one. This from the New York Times:
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.

Mr. Obama, the front-runner in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, made the disclosure Sunday night while speaking to supporters at a fund-raiser in San Francisco. His remarks, in which he poked fun at the utility of traditional foreign policy qualifications like government officials traveling abroad on fact-finding missions, were recorded and were quickly placed on the Web.
In other news, thousands of students applying to be Obama's ambassador to Mexico, citing spring break trips to Cancun as foreign policy experience...





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Comments : 2 Comments

mfee01 commented, on April 10, 2008 at 12:27 p.m.:

Ok lets see going by his ideas on experience, I have been in a plane so I can be a pilot, I have ridden on a train so I can be an engineer, I have undergone eye surgery so I can be an ophthalmologist, I used to build boats so I can be a captain. Wow I guess I should turn in my CDL because those jobs pay alot better

liberalfighter commented, on April 10, 2008 at 11:01 p.m.:

I wonder if Barack Obama stayed at a Holiday Inn Express lst night?