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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