Hillary: Living in a Foreign Country Isn’t Foreign Policy Experience
Hillary Clinton threw a stiff jab at Barack Obama via speakerphone from Omaha, NE today — where her plane was forced to touch down after two aborted landings near her event in Shenandoa, IA due to fog.
More than half of the standing room only Iowa crowd had filed out before she landed the punch, but it was still a strong one: after taking on Obama’s economic experience yesterday, Hillary continued to pummel Obama on foreign policy experience, saying “With a war and a tough economy, we need a President ready on Day One to bring our troops home from Iraq and to handle all of our other tough challenges.
“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. I think we need a President with more experience than that.”
Obama spent much of his childhood in Indonesia, and said yesterday in Iowa that “probably the strongest experience I have in foreign relations is the fact that I spent four years living overseas as a child in Southeast Asia.”
In response, Obama spokesman Bill Burton compared Hillary to the Democrats’ favorite White House Villains, saying “Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld have spent time in the White House and travelled to many countries as well, but along with Hillary Clinton they led us into the worst foreign policy disaster in a generation and are now giving George Bush the benefit of the doubt on Iran.”
UPDATE: Hillary got to take her shot at Obama’s foreign experience on camera at her second stop in Creston. Take a look.
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Unlike F.D.R. and J.F.K., contemporary democrats are clueless when it comes to the perils this nation has always had to face on the world stage. To blame Bush for anti-american sentiment abroad shows incredible naivete and historical amnesia. A liberal democrat in the white house would be a colossal victory for terrorists and we would soon suffer the consequences…