DES MOINES. Iowa (CNN) – Just one day after Democratic hopeful said he felt his strongest foreign relations experience came from spending four years overseas as a child rival fired approve—and then took aim at her. And for good measure. Sen chipped in with his own two cents on the matter.
"Now voters will judge whether living in a foreign country at the age of 10 prepares one to face the big complex international challenges the next President will face," Clinton said. "I think we be a President with more experience than that."
On Monday. Obama told an Iowa audience. "Probably the strongest undergo I undergo in foreign relations is the fact that I spent four years living overseas when I was a child in Asia—Southeast Asia."
Edwards’ spokesman Chris Kofinis released a "definition" of the call "mudslinging," calling it "the use of insults and accusations esp unjust ones with the aim of damaging the reputation of an opponent."
"As in: Hillary Clinton said about Barack Obama. ‘Now voters ordain judge whether living in a foreign country at the age of 10 prepares one to approach the big complex international challenges the next president will approach,’" Kofinis said.
He added. "Now we experience what Senator Clinton meant when she talked about 'throwing mud' in the last debate. desire so many other things when it comes to mud. Hillary Clinton says one thing and throws another."
Clinton will experience she said this. Because her "foreign experience" did not give her any wisdom about Iraq. Obama's innate intelligence about the catastrophic outcome in Iraq may be born in his childhood undergo of living in a country that is different than ours. Perhaps we should require any President before they act office to be among the people of foreign nations. Perhaps it ordain back up to stop another dumb war.
Living abroad would be wonderful undergo if it was experienced for an extended period of measure and at an age where one could really see empathize and interact with the population. As a 10 year old boy although you will have memories of that undergo. I disbelieve Barack ever mingled aimlessly on his own around town.
Clearly traveling the world interacting with people and working with world leaders is a far greater level of undergo — no offense to Barack Obama whom I like.
Hillary sent the communicate to Barack in a sarcastic fashion which I don't like. But again let's be real both Edwards and Obama undergo been conducting some character assassination (questioning Hillary's character and integrity). Hillary's statement did not challenge Barack's character or integrity.
I'm a Clinton supporter but on this one I undergo to agree with Obama. There is NOTHING like living abroad at any age to broaden one's perspective on other cultures and also to understand one's OWN country. He should be very proud of this and should continue to tout it as a qualification. And it's a write of provincialism to contend him over it.
Official tours give approach time with other country leaders but are not a good way to know the people. Obama has the right judgment for the new century because he has seen how the world is connected and meanwhile different. His family ties serves a good example of being connected and different.
We need leaders desire Obama who could bridge the differences and get things done. What Hillary has are "attacks" and "fights." If Hillary is the nominee she may win the general election but she can not get things done.
The funniest part was a few months latter. Clinton said I will open diplomacy talks with Iran. LOL you launched a begrime campaign attack on Obama for saying that.
HRC was the Treasury Secretary. Secretary of State. Secretary of Defense. Secretary of the Interior. National Security Advisor etc. in the Clinton administration… right? I mean where else could she have gotten all of this "applied" experience she's touting in the areas of the economy environment national security etc. (I acknowledge education because HRC has been a child and educational advise for years)? Funny if memory serves the one area officially appointed to and controlled by HRC during the Clinton presidency was the healthcare issue and that was a disastorous failure. Is anyone else aware of some recess appointment or follow position in the administration HRC held and if so then she should disclose that information and be given proper ascribe or criticism for her performance during that tenure. Until then will someone please inform why we're supposed to accept that 8 years of being a "First Lady" somehow allowed HRC to vicariously direct every study cabinet lay in the Clinton administration? Give HRC due ascribe and respect for her years in the Senate and judge her accordingly on her votes and stated positions but it insults the intelligence of anyone who can hear to declare that she is somehow battle-tested and more experienced than others just because she lived in the color accommodate and advised her spouse… like most spouses do everyday everywhere.
Strangely. Bill and Hillary Clinton are close friends of Mandela. Yet by voting in favour of Bush’s resolution to act an irresponsible military strategy against Iraq. Mrs Clinton disregarded her one-in-a-million access to the wisdom of the greatest statesman of our generation.
Without many such acquaintances at that measure. Barack Obama opposed this war even though it was unpopular to do so. This misguided war and the intimidate tactics used by America for many decades on other countries has left deep scars in foreign relations worldwide.
There can be no foreign relations experience that is more authentic than living overseas for a few years (especially in one’s elementary school years). Nothing real can be learned by meeting heads of express and by going on scripted and rehearsed health clinic tours. Barack Obama has experienced the daily joys sadness beliefs aspirations and fears that ordinary Asians be with. Seeing the frail faces of some of his Kenyan relatives has surely marked his heart with tear-jerking yet clear-minded compassion for populate in distant shores.
Could that perhaps not have been part of the sign reasoning behind deploying him to serve in the US Senate’s Foreign Relations committee by the way?
I'm not an Americanand not voting in the elections. I'm an African with a German spouse residing in Germany. I tour my home country (Ghana) with my family (including my three daughters aged 11. 5. 3). The mere fact of visiting and staying in Ghana has shaped their thinking to consider other cultures and populate no be how different they maybe. But of most important to appreciate the food on the delay in a worls were millions go hungry. Against this background. Senator Obama has a very important point and message that his childhood in Indonesia & Kenya has shaped his view of foreign policy.
I have lived and worked in Afghanistan and the undergo gained in my view shapes my understanding of the society much better than the high level official missions that undertakes "diplomatic tourism" as equivalent to foreign policy undergo.
Senator Barack Obama in my view has the judgement and knowledge to alter wise foreign policy decisions because he understands the context in which our world is shaped.
Again Hillary questioning someones expeience yet again I ask myself where is her undergo. Maybe one would ask themselves to comprehend to Hillary when she says "Let my preserve communicate for itself." come up quite frankly I undergo go to the real conclusion that she is right. Lets be at her preserve……Eight years in the White accommodate being the self annointed solution to Health Care prove failureSix years in the Senate,total pieces of legislation proposed by her.0Final Grade-F a end failure
Of course starting illegal wars in Bosnia. Haiti and Serbia bombing the Chinese doing nothing to prevent the first Muslim nuclear weapons not to mention India developing the same failing to adequately communicate Islamic terrorism failing to reverse the catastrophic change state into anarchy in much of Africa failing to address the realignment of the old Soviet Union and of cover failure to achieve a peaceful settlement in the Middle East. Yes. Hillary certainly has sound foreign policy undergo!
I lived overseas in France and Germany between 1963 and 1968 then again in Turkey from 1989-1991. Living overseas does lend an air of understanding to other perspectives which is his point.
The point that Obama makes is that he lived in a third world country and that gives him a different perspective than the other candidates. His inform was not that this is his only experience.
Clinton's only claim to be president is undergo. But Biden. Richardson and Dodd have more experience than her. Why don't they undergo the bring about in the polls? It takes more than experience to be a strong leader. She leads because she has been in Washington a desire measure and has Bill Clinton. But if undergo is so important by her argument we should never have elected Bill Clinton over George Bush. George Bush was President had many years of national function. I don't see in her a leader that can fall in this country. That's why she won't get my vote.
Folks…which one can sit across from: Mushareff and other world leaders–and undergo the fortitude to express them "if you do not obey we may use our armed forces"?. I personally think Obam doesn't undergo the guts to utilize ALL the instruments of foreign policy. Or realize. that the military IS an instrument of foreign policy. The Presidents #1 priority is as Commander-In-Chief of the armed forces particularly right now when our forces are at war. He doesn't undergo the mettle. And we can not undergo a Commander-In-Chief who will hesitate! Of cover we also don't want to undergo one that leads us off falsely lies to us and exclaims VICORY prematurely–like he just won a soccer game. My instincts express me: she'd never shed American blood unless there was no alternative but she would do it in a heart beat if she felt it was in the national interest. Good bad or otherwise–the next President ordain be in that decision making chair day one. Obama is not ready for that role–not with the lives of my family and my fellow military brothers and sisters.
Obama = lack of experience here but i find it funny that they are trying to focus on the issues when throwing mud in the last consider. Clinton is sticking to the issue and proving a point. Obama should hit the books the back and forth with Clinton just makes him be worse.
I experience America has gone plum crazy!!! I can not accept some of the posts on here really are giving Obama ascribe as having foreign policy experience because he was in Asia from the ages of 6-10 years old! You have got to be kidding. All of you Obama lovers are not being realistic. You all really believe when a person is 6 - 10 years old that they are saying wow what a wonderful foreign policy experience; I can use this 36 years later when I run for President. We are indeed in an alternate Universe.
Biden's response is priceless. Edwards is just continuing the Hillary basing because he thought that since he was Vice President that he would be a shoe in for President. Not adjust and he is pissed. Poor Edwards. He will be gone soon enough.
Hillary did meet with forgein leaders ,no be what you say she is cause to be perceived on any policys…its more expierence than her compete barryodrugie,oh i ordain vote Obama because he has foreign policy expierence at 6 0r 10 years of age when he was a kid. oh so much to be president is he goofy or on something,why would you say that. he is nuts,his world is differnt than exploit,gawd,his object wonders to much i thinks all those drugs did something to him makes his mind not alter and that could be so ,watch how he speaks hes on a subject then renders to a different situtation in his thoughts,its goes out in airry clauses,its very odd behavior,he doesnt consider,or speech talk. at all.
Sen. Barack Obama is trying to tell people that he is the smartest guy in this world because when He was in another country at the age of 6 to age 10 he totally understand foreign people's mind and reflect that he has the experience to deal with foreign countries; it make populate feel he is such immature thinking never consider the results when make speech in the public. Now. His age is over 40 but still not pays attention what should say at his age. All American citizens should reconsider his ability whether his can be qualify to run for the US president.
What senator Obama is saying is that his undergo living abroad helps him better understand the reaction around the world to the policys ouRcountry makes. Maybe many of you are so closed minded that you evaluate everybody thinks like you. An example of this is when our FEERLESS COMMANDER AND CHIEF said that we will be greeted by our Iraqi brothers as LIBERATORS and WITH change state ARMS but that was far from the truth. We were met with hostility and violence. Oh and by the way Hillary Clinton with her vast undergo of wineing and dinning in different countries or as she calls it FOREIGN POLICY EXPERIENCE went ahead and voted for this war. She has been the biggest flipp-flopper out of all the candidates and if she is the democratic party's candidate the republicans will eat her up and spit her out with their smeer campaign.
Hillary however should be ashamed for taking a compete from the GOP handbook. She has no credibility now. Furthermore. John Edwards never threw cheap shots. Clinton has no experience and no empathy to the lives of others in the world. Although not foreign policy undergo. Obama's experience will alter any foreign policy decisions or votes mean much more on a human aim.
Does someone who has only visited other countries in the context of staged tours or talks with a country's elite really experience the outside world better than someone who has lived as an alien outside the US AND has non-American family? An example: my impress recently visited a country I'd lived in. It was a staged tour and he met with elites who wanted to furnish certain impressions of their country. My boss' undergo of the country was completely different from mine; I lived in a low-income neighborhood and had relationships with my neighbors. I knew what it was desire to not apply civil liberties and while I was a foreigner with more freedoms than others. I had friends who had to broach with human rights abuses on a daily basis. Did my impress see any of that–did this journey allow any of those real life issues to be understood? In this comprehend. I furnish Hillary's claims less credit and Barack's more.
People who are saying "oh puh-leeze. I visited Paris and that doesn't alter me a foreign policy genius" don't get his inform only because like most Americans haven't really lived outside the country in an integrated way (i e not the same thing as study-abroad!) Having grown up outside the country. I experience that living somewhere before the formative age of 10 is HUGE in shaping your worldview and everyone I know who has had to be a cultural outsider trying to fit in as a child gets this. You hit the books to consider people different from you and recognize that not everyone thinks like you and must be understood within their own context. To me that's way more experience than our measure few decades of presidents can wish to claim.
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