Clinton Takes Obama to Task Over Foreign Policy Experience Claim
Hillary Clinton took no quarter Tuesday in responding to a reported claim by Barack Obama that he has more foreign policy experience than either Clinton or Republican nominee-in-waiting John McCain.
According to the Huffington Post blog, Obama was addressing a crowd of fundraisers in San Francisco on Sunday when he began talking about his choice for vice president, and said he would choose someone who adds to his expertise.
“I think a lot of people assume that might be some sort of military thing to make me look more commander in chief-like. Ironically, this is an area — foreign policy is the area where I am probably most confident that I know more and understand the world better than Senator Clinton or Senator McCain,” Obama reportedly said.
Clinton, speaking with FOX News Tuesday morning, said she was baffled by the claim.
“I’m somewhat shocked by that since I don’t see any evidence of it,” Clinton said, chuckling. “This is, you know, kind of hard to square with his failure ever to have a single policy hearing on the only responsibility he was given, chairing the European and NATO subcommittee on the Foreign Relations Committee.
“And as he admitted in the last debate, he was too busy running for president to pay attention to what we needed to do to improve our chances in Afghanistan and get NATO more involved. So, you know, I, I ,I don’t, I don’t know, I’m speechless. I mean, you know, making an assertion like that belies the facts and the record.”
Obama is scheduled on Tuesday to chair the subcommittee’s hearing on the nomination of Kurt Volker to be the permanent U.S. representative to NATO. All three presidential candidates are in town for Senate hearings with Gen. David Petraeus and Amb. Ryan Crocker, the top U.S. military and diplomatic leaders in Iraq.
According to the report, in his remarks Obama again mentioned his childhood years in Indonesia and family in Kenya, and blasted Clinton’s claim of visiting more than 80 countries.
“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 native dance. You meet with the CIA station chief and the embassy and they give you a briefing. You go take a tour of a plant that [with] the assistance of USAID has started something. And then you go.
Clinton on Tuesday scoffed at the notion that Obama is more in touch with other countries than her.
“He’s apparently talking about his own experience, which is quite limited,” Clinton said. “You know, for 15 years I’ve been spending a lot of time in other countries,” she said, naming China, Ireland and Kosovo among the places she’s traveled to “where the conversation and discussions were substantive and lengthy.”
“So I’m not quite sure exactly where Senator Obama has been. So far as I know, he’s maybe taken two trips. But that’s fine, I mean, he can say whatever he wishes about his own experience and we’ll leave it up to voters to determine who really is ready to be commander in chief and who is ready to restore America’s standing and moral authority in the world,” Clinton said.
Clinton thinks she has the experience and moral authority to lead our country because she lives in her own false reality. She and her husband have lied so much and so often that they actually believe the nonsense that falls out of their mouths.
Well Obama did just go to St. Bart’s, didn’t he? Couple that with the fact that he lived in Indonesia and heck, of course he should be president. Why stop there though? Let’s make him King of the World!
This guys a joke and if Hillary doesn’t stop him now, I sorely hope McCain does in November.
The only experience needed for a Democrat to run for office is to be able to conform their positions to the polls.
OOps She’s doing it again extorting the facts, that’s why she is untrustworthy she keeping lying and lying I really don’t think Hilary knows how to tell the truth. She twist and turn facts that suits her, and use’s everyone else’s experience as her own. What does she get all this experience from??????????? HILARY IS A LOSER AND THE ONLY WAY SHE GOING TO DROP OUT OF THE RACE IS WHEN SHE IS DRAGGED OUT BY HER HARIY KICKING AND SCREAMING………
Obama for President!!!!!!!!!
Once again….Billary is confused what is real experience!
Being a Governors Wife & First Lady….(Lady is not quite the word) is real experience…she is sadly mistake. She never sat in on any of the real high level meetings or could make any decisions and had no clearances to do so. She was there only as a wife of someone!! Unless she was dodging invisible bullets then she made have attended some imaginary meetings…lol
Give me a break! What foreign policy experience does he have? How, in good conscious, could he say he has more foreign policy experience than John McCain? Even Hillary has more than he does. This issue will be strongly debated come this fall if he is the democratic nominee. The republicans are already gearing up for this one. I just hope, for his sake, that he has something to back up such a statement. If not, then it will not look too good for him come November. I somehow do not believe he does.
The very fact that Obama speaks of the military and foreign policy as though they were one and the same should tell us right there that the guy needs more of an education in all matters presidential. The military and foreign policy are not synonymous. However, they do have one thing in common…Obama has experience in neither. Please, please tell me we aren’t going to put this unqualified, inexperienced man in the position of Democratic nominee for President! Hang in there Hillary!
Wait, wait, lemme get this straight, HILLARY said this??? “So, you know, I, I ,I don’t, I don’t know, I’m speechless. I mean, you know, making an assertion like that belies the facts and the record.”
Maybe she’s speachless from dodging sniper fire again??? I mean, where *does* she get off saying this sort of thing.
Hillary Clinton has no credibility whatsoever.
Neither of the Democrat candidates have the experience to be president - think maybe they stayed in a HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS on their campaigns???
Your article should have said “Clinton gave no quarter” not “Clinton took no quarter”. The victor or agressor gives quarter, the defeated takes quarter.