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June 29, 2008

Obama Goes Abroad – Foreign Policy In A Thimble

by @ 10:01 am. Filed under Elections, Foreign Affairs, Politics, War on Terror

Barack Hussein Obama has no foreign policy experience, zero, nada, zilch, NONE!

Hillary Clinton went on vacations and escaped sniper fire while attempting to develop her foreign policy experience and came up very empty.

Barack Obama plans to visit Europe and the Middle East this summer, an attempt to ease heated criticism over his foreign policy and national security credentials. We say, what credentials?

Does a cursory trip to several nations in a short period of time suddenly make a person an expert in foreign policy? No it doesn’t and this is one more Obama charade in his attempt to use Cliffs Notes to gain experience where he has none.

The presumptive Democratic nominee will visit Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Jordan and Israel. Aides said they can’t reveal exact dates due to security reasons but by most accounts the trip will occur in mid-July.

The new secret agent man took down his new “Presidential Seal” but continues to hope he can fool voters into believing he already is President.

Obama comments once again display his arrogance while demonstrating his ignorance about important matters and his lack of knowledge. From community organizer to President is certainly a leap the United States doesn’t need to take.

“This trip will be an important opportunity for me to assess the situation in countries that are critical to American national security and to consult with some of our closest friends and allies about the common challenges we face,” Sen. Obama said in a statement.

This amounts to “Barry Obama’s Excellent Adventure” or “Barry Obama’s Day Off.” Of course when examining his voting record Mr. Obama takes many days off.

The campaign declined for security reasons to confirm whether the trip includes a visit to Iraq but several advisors say that the Illinois senator is likely to visit U.S. troops in Iraq and possibly Afghanistan. How convenient, Mr. Obama has not been to Iraq for 903 days and counting, while never making a trip to Afghanistan but it’s election season and suddenly it’s important. H-Y-P-O-C-R-I-T-E!

“We continue to face grave threats, not only from terrorism, but also nuclear proliferation, climate change and poverty, genocide and disease,” Sen. Obama told reporters.

“Nearly all of these threats have grown over the last eight years because of the policies of George Bush, which I believe have left us less safe and less respected in the world.

To demonstrate Obama’s ignorance the surge in Iraq is working and al-Qaeda’s is dwindling in forces and their leadership continues to be killed. The Mahdi Army supported by Iran has been all but defeated.

America has not been attacked since 9/11 and hundreds of attempts have been thwarted by Bush policies during his watch. Sound bites are nice but liar Obama should get his facts straight before making statements about Bush policy by filling it with false information.

Obama assembled a meeting of 40 retired generals and admirals to talk about the challenges the military faces in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere. What in the world could Obama have been talking about? Why would any retired military personnel show up to a meeting with Obama unless they wish to bash current leaders, which is common on the cable networks?

Last month, Obama turned down an offer from John McCain to jointly visit Iraq before the election. “I just don’t want to be involved in a political stunt,” Sen. Obama said. Maybe Obama wishes to escape to foreign lands so he can makes more excuses not to debate Mr. McCain in town hall events. We suppose he can’t receive enough security to hide his lack of knowledge on all things that matter and Mr. McCain would hand the “wunderkind” his proverbial lunch.

Obama is the chairman of the U.S. Senate Sub-Committee on European Affairs. Obama’s “commitment” to Afghanistan: He believes the US “took its eye off the ball” when we went into Iraq, and promises to refocus on Afghanistan as president.

When Hillary Clinton brought this up at the Cleveland debate, Obama conceded,

“I became chairman of this committee at the beginning of this campaign.  … So it is true that we haven’t had oversight hearings on Afghanistan.” 

The reality is that since Obama began chairing the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s Subcommittee on European Affairs in January 2007, not a single policy hearing has been conducted on anything, Afghanistan or otherwise. 

The committee has jurisdiction over the countries of Europe, as well as NATO activities.  “Jurisdiction: The subcommittee deals with all matters concerning U.S. relations with the countries on the continent of Europe … and with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the European Union and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.”

At a closed San Francisco fundraiser the Illinois senator fielded a question on what he’s looking for in a running mate when the time comes.

“I would like somebody who knows about a bunch of stuff that I’m not as expert on.

“I think a lot of people assume that might be some sort of military thing to make me look more commander in chief like.”

“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 Sen. Clinton or Sen. McCain.

“It’s ironic because this is supposedly the place where experience is most needed to be commander in chief,” he continued. “Experience in Washington is not knowledge of the world.

“When Sen. 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.

“You do that in 80 countries — you don’t know those 80 countries,” Obama claimed in a transcript provided by HuffingtonPost’s Mayhill Flower.

“So when I speak about having lived in Indonesia for four years, having family that is impoverished in small villages in Africa — knowing the leaders is not important — what I know is the people. I traveled to Pakistan when I was in college — I knew what Sunni and Shia was before I joined the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.”

That’s convincing, Obama lived in Indonesia as a little boy and visited Pakistan while in college. Maybe he was looking to establish tenure at one of the fine Sharia schools or maybe become a “senior lecturer.”

Senator McCain’s “knowledge of the world” – which started all the way back to 1958 when he began his service in the Navy. As far as recent “knowledge of the world” goes, in the last few years alone, McCain has visited Iraq eight times to Obama’s one.

Barack Hussein Obama flips, flops and spins his foreign policy experience yet we can truthfully place that experience inside a thimble and have room left. We would need a room the size of the Louisiana Superdome to house Obama lies. Indeed!

5 Responses to “Obama Goes Abroad – Foreign Policy In A Thimble”

  1. Bobill Weaver Says:

    Liberally Conservative – Is your link from “senior lecture” to “Wikipedia’s “Sharia” law site a mistake, a joke, or intended to make a point? I’m sending this in good faith because I thought it might be an honest mistake.

  2. Liberally Conservative Says:

    Homer Nods, the link as been corrected.

    Indeed, LC always deals in honesty.

  3. John Says:

    Christ, what an awfully bad article…

  4. Liberally Conservative Says:

    Really, because the facts don’t agree with your Obama Kool-Aid?

  5. Uzee Says:

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    I find it to be refreshing.
    I bookmarked it and will be back time to time.

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