Hillary: Living in Jakarta when you’re 10 doesn’t count as foreign policy experience
posted at 4:00 pm on November 20, 2007 by Allahpundit
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Mark Halperin’s headline puts it succinctly. True enough: Growing up in a foreign country doesn’t qualify you to lead the free world. What qualifies you to lead the free world is sitting next to a terrorist degenerate’s wife while she spouts blood libels and then giving her an affectionate kiss on the cheek.
I have traveled the world on behalf of our country – first in the White House with my husband and now as a Senator. 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. I have fought for our men and women in uniform to make sure they have the equipment they need in battle and are treated with dignity when they return home…
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. Someone the rest of the world knows, looks up to, and has confidence in. I don’t think this is the time for on the job training on our economy or on foreign policy.
Reminding voters of Obama’s background also plays nicely into those rumors from earlier this year, which are still circulating underground. Exit question: What’s lamer, Hillary arguing that being married to Bill Clinton somehow counts as foreign policy experience or Obama telling some high school students today — dear god, I can barely type it — “I want to make government cool again”?
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Getting worried, Hill?
photom on November 20, 2007 at 4:03 PM
Oooh, great picture, great comeback.
thirteen28 on November 20, 2007 at 4:04 PM
Yeah, the fear is palpable.
Vizzini on November 20, 2007 at 4:05 PM
You know what? She’s right–Obama’s not qualified.
She conveniently left out the fact that she’s not qualified either.
Vanceone on November 20, 2007 at 4:06 PM
She’s trying to sell herself as a friend of the troops? I’m pretty sure every one from a cop on the beat to Petraeus knows what she’s made of. Ask them.
bbz123 on November 20, 2007 at 4:07 PM
I like how she swiped Rudy’s talking point against her:
AlexB on November 20, 2007 at 4:08 PM
Did the Pig just nominate Condoleezza Rice?
OhEssYouCowboys on November 20, 2007 at 4:09 PM
I love it when they beat each other up in the primaries with arguments that would sink a Republican if used in the general election.
Attila (Pillage Idiot) on November 20, 2007 at 4:11 PM
(*finger snaps*)(Michelle Obama voice) Oh no she didn’t!(/Michelle Obama Voice)
RightWinged on November 20, 2007 at 4:13 PM
Again? When the h*ll was it cool?
Frozen Tex on November 20, 2007 at 4:14 PM
Don’t worry about the results, look at my feeeelllings. I care soooo much but I’ve never changed a thing. Wahhhhh.
sunny on November 20, 2007 at 4:15 PM
Hillary takes out Obama, eliminates herself in process. Edwards becomes nominee.
Hmmmm.
JayHaw Phrenzie on November 20, 2007 at 4:15 PM
When the Founding Fathers risked EVERYTHING for the survival of this Nation, and for the liberty of the People. A concept that would now be mocked by the Pigs inside of the Beltway – and by half of the People.
OhEssYouCowboys on November 20, 2007 at 4:18 PM
If you haven’t done so yet, read the post at Mere Rhetoric Allah linked above.
Great stuff.
flipflop on November 20, 2007 at 4:19 PM
For all those who don’t like the choices we have for Republican nominee, try to imagine what reasonable Democrats (yes, they exist) are feeling right now.
I’d like to think that the image of Hillary or Obama in the White House would be enough to convince the “conscience” voters not to throw away their votes on losers, but sadly, there will always be those few whose “conscience” overpowers their ability to reason. I’m just hoping it’s a few thousand, and not a few percent.
Splashman on November 20, 2007 at 4:19 PM
That’s it? What a sissy.
sunny on November 20, 2007 at 4:21 PM
Hah, a white middle aged lesbian in a sham marriage with an ex Prez calls a black guy unqualified because he was a Muslim living abroad before he joined a racist white hating church. After the strike is over I’m submitting it as a sitcom.
Buzzy on November 20, 2007 at 4:23 PM
“And the Edwards campaign weighs in, defending Obama: “Now we know what Senator Clinton meant when she talked about ‘throwing mud’ in the last debate.”
That’s it? What a sissy.
sunny on November 20, 2007 at 4:21 PM
You just noticed? That’s practically manning up talk from the Breck Girl.
bbz123 on November 20, 2007 at 4:25 PM
In the words of Dick Morris ~ When she says she can “hit the ground running,” she pretends that she is addressing her vast public policy experience. But it is irrelevant that she was in the White House for eight years. So was the pastry chef.
Califemme on November 20, 2007 at 4:33 PM
Hillary, spreading your legs for Bill doesn’t qualify as foreign policy experience. Hundreds of (leftist) women have done it.
urbancenturion on November 20, 2007 at 4:34 PM
“And I went to Tiananmen Square in 1989 and stood up to the Chinese government on human rights and women’s rights.
“That person blocking the tanks? That was me.
“I’d always dreamed of one day protesting there; in fact, the name Hillary is the Mandarin phonetic equivalent of ’she-freedom bringer.’ But was told I couldn’t because I was a woman.”
saint kansas on November 20, 2007 at 4:38 PM
I believe she’s a Chinese hero. Why else would they keep sending her all that money?
JiangxiDad on November 20, 2007 at 4:49 PM
Sarcastic, wit is a good thing. I’m keepin’ my eye on you two.
OhEssYouCowboys on November 20, 2007 at 5:07 PM
When dueling was legal!
jdkchem on November 20, 2007 at 5:09 PM
And all this time I thought it was “server of General tso’s chicken.”
jdkchem on November 20, 2007 at 5:12 PM
“I went to Beijing in 1995 and
stood up to the Chinese government on human rights and women’s rights.took gobs of cash from the Chi-Coms as campaign contributions.”Dudley Smith on November 20, 2007 at 5:22 PM
Not to mention the revolving door on the Lincoln bedroom that yielded huge returns for Bill’s reelection.
RMCS_USN on November 20, 2007 at 5:36 PM
I wasn’t aware that covering up your husband’s sex addiction while trying to take over the nation’s healthcare system when you weren’t elected to an office qualified as “leadership experience.”
Good Lt on November 20, 2007 at 5:40 PM
Um, that would NOT be you Mrs Clinton.
Heh!
4shoes on November 20, 2007 at 5:56 PM
If memory serves me, didn’t Hillary take a world tour during her last years in the White House at taxpayer expense? So she’s experienced at using taxpayer money for her own personal gain…some experience to brag about.
deedledee on November 20, 2007 at 6:04 PM
They are acting like children!
terryannonline on November 20, 2007 at 6:17 PM
Got someone in mind, Hillary?
BacaDog on November 20, 2007 at 6:21 PM
” government cool again”? What asshat part of the electorate is concerned about that?….. Where can I find them? It’s clobberin’ time!
MNDavenotPC on November 20, 2007 at 6:34 PM
“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.” — Hillary(D), who thinks her husband’s Somalia abandonment, Kosovo Quagmire, Bosnian debacle, subsidizing North Korea’s nuclear weapons, failure to respond to 5 major terror attacks and calling his donors in Dubai to warn Bin Laden about our Cruise missiles constitutes “experience”.
DANEgerus on November 20, 2007 at 6:39 PM
She made the point against her – oh, that voice. I even hear it when I read what she says.
2008 will be so much fun. She’s making the point against her and all the others.
Beauty is that whatever she says, it reminds people of her ‘partner’ and the Clinton years. No más!
Entelechy on November 20, 2007 at 6:51 PM
Yes Hillary we know,you wanted to be president
since you were 2 years old.
canopfor on November 20, 2007 at 6:58 PM
Hey Hillary,
Running Bimbo suppressions doesn’t count as significant executive experience either — unless you consider Bimbo eruptions a likely national threat.
Dr. Charles G. Waugh on November 20, 2007 at 11:21 PM
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