Obama vs. Clinton, the travel edition

[babylonsister]

http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2007/11/obama_vs_clinton_the_travel_ed.html

Obama vs. Clinton, the travel edition

by Christi Parsons

The Battle of the Passports continues.

Yesterday, Barack Obama said his experience living overseas in his youth helped prepare him to be president.

This afternoon, Democratic rival Hillary Clinton fired back.

“I have traveled the world on behalf of our country, first in the White House with my husband and now as a senator,” she said at an event in Shenandoah, Iowa. “I’ve met with countless world leaders and know many of them personally. I went to Beijing in 1995 and stood up to the Chinese government on human rights and women’s rights.”

In case you missed the intended comparison, here’s the finer point:

“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,” she said. “I think we need a President with more experience than that.”

But Obama spokesman Bill Burton says lots of passport stamps, even when accumulated by grown-ups, aren't everything.

"Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld have spent time in the White House and traveled to many countries as well,” he said. “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.”

Updates to come as merited, especially if any of the candidates pass through customs at some point today.:rofl:

[asha]

1. travel

Obama was at a muslim school in Indonesia , and then basking in the Hawian sun doing blow. smocking dope.Do you believe republicans won't bring that up? Mccain already brought that up about flak jacket."Obama would not know the difference between flak jacket and a BONG'

[babylonsister]

2. How does one smock dope? And they probably won't bring it up,

because he's not hiding anything. I don't know what you mean about the flak jacket.