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.
I think this attack would have resonated better about 35 years ago -- when Obama actually was 10 years old. Then again, this attack wouldn't have been necessary 35 years ago because he wouldn't have been eligible to run for president anyway.
What's remarkable to me is the restraint Obama and David Axelrod are demonstrating to not snap back with a paraphrase like this: Now voters will judge whether living in the White House as First Lady prepares one to face the big, complex international challenges the next President will face.
For 15 years, I have been the object of the Republican attack machine and I’m still here.
YFTM the progressive Democratic attack machine too.
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.
Because that's the entire sum of Obama's resume and qualifications, of course.
Weak.
it's amazing how condescending the release is with the ordered words, "big, complex". as if talking to ten year old. that is powerful language.
Oh how I wish Jed Bartlett weren't just a fictional character, but an actual presidential option...
"As we’ve been seeing on many issues in the last week, the Democratic campaigns are going overboard to hit back hard at every charge, lest their candidate be tagged as this year’s John Kerry." --Wasn't John Kerry's problem that he didn't hit back at the Republicans, at the Swift Boat Vets, at media distortions, etc.? Not other Democratic candidates.
Until I see it, I won't believe the Democrats can hit anyone except each other.
Why oh why do they hate President Obama so?
I blame Traitor Novak and his boss, Karl Marx Rove.
TSM @3
She's responding to this:
"Probably the strongest experience I have in foreign relations is the fact that I spent four years living overseas when I was a child in southeast Asia," said Obama, who lived in Indonesia from age 6 to age 10.
Phelix, don't muddy the waters with facts. Don't you know that the Slog exists as a venue for Hillary-haters to sound off in a reality-free echo chamber, until they start believing things like "anyone but Hillary" and "if Hillary's the nominee, I'm not going to vote"?
Phelix @8, please provide a published source for this quote.
Thanks for posting that link for me, Jewritto. :)
And I'll try to keep my facts quiet in the future Big Sven, wouldn't want to disturb the reality-free zone. ;)
I was fearful of this being another Al Gore "I invented the Internet" episode. 'Cause Gore never actually said that. So yes, Obama did say that about his experience in foreign relations. And yes, it sounds pretty embarrassing by itself. But let's give the full context from that LA Times article:
He also described his unorthodox biography as a plus: As a child he lived abroad, and he still has relatives in Kenya, he told an audience at one of his campaign stops.
"Probably the strongest experience I have in foreign relations is the fact that I spent four years living overseas when I was a child in southeast Asia," said Obama, who lived in Indonesia from age 6 to age 10.
"So a lot of my knowledge about foreign affairs isn't just what I studied in school. It's not just the work that I do on Senate Foreign Relations [Committee]. It's actually having the knowledge of how ordinary people in these other countries live," he said.
Right now, I'm not entirely sold on Obama. I am much more sold on him than on Hillary, though. And considering that I'm not your typical American voter, any presidential candidate that I was unequivocally enthusiastic about would stand no chance whatsoever of getting elected.
No Nig-Nogs for me!
is she paying you guys?
I wish, $log.
No, amazing as it sounds, a few of the 44% of Democrats who support Hillary actually read and/or post to the Slog.
I don't think he's touting that as his sole credential. But it's a credential that is uniquely his, and I do think that living abroad - especially someplace as unlike here as Indonesia, and with an Indonesian stepdad - gives you a perspective you can't get otherwise. I lived in Belize when I was 9, for just a few months, and saw all kinds of stuff that made a huge, lasting impression on me. Obama describes the impression made on him by his Indonesia years in his autobiography, Dreams From My Father.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreams_from_My_Father
@13 - thanks for putting the quote in context. It's hard to separate the legitimate criticisms of Obama from the more general arselicking of Hillary around here in recent times.
tsm@13- Riiiiiiiiiiiight. Because this place is a vicious den of Clintonites. Oh that it were true.
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