A story that ran in the Huffington Post was actually meant to point out Obama's arrogance regarding foreign policy, however I found the part about his travels to Pakistan during College to be more interesting since we had not heard this before. Obama stated at a San Francisco fundraiser the other night that he did not need a VP with foreign policy experience because he knew enough and had more FP experience than either John McCain or Hillary Clinton.
He pointed to a trip he took to Pakistan in College to visit his mother (who was living there at the time).
The writer went on to point out his arrogrance when he compared his college trip to Pakistan and few years in Indonesia as reason enough to claim he had better foreign policy experience than McCain or Clinton.
She wrote:
[There are a number of interesting things about Senator Obama's remarks. If Senators Clinton and McCain have not passed "those tests," likely they will be surprised to hear it. Secondly, even though I've researched and written on Hillary Clinton's trips abroad and consequently been critical of her claims, my estimation of her foreign travels is that they were sometimes quite a bit more than a dance, a briefing and a tour. What Barack Obama's remarks last night in San Francisco reveal, however, is his self-confidence--to the point of cockiness--right now.]
Link is here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mayhill-fo wler/obama-says-no-to-foreign_b_95357.ht ml
But I actually found something else that was more interesting in the article and that is that Obama had never talked about or discussed his College trip to Pakistan before, he didn't mention it in any of his books.
It may be no big deal, but Jake Tapper mentions on his abc news blog that his "trip to Pakistan was news to many of us who have been following the race closely. It was odd that we hadn't heard about it before, given all the talk about Pakistan during the campaign."
read the blog here:
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/ 2008/04/obamas-college.html
And, Ben Smith at Politico has more details on his trip here:
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0 408/A_trip_to_Pakistan.html
Ben Smith points out that while no one was aware of Obama's travels to Pakistan, it would be interesting to know more about it since this is a somewhat unusual trip for an American College student to take.
My take on this is how come we haven't heard about it? Even if he was just visiting his mother - doesn't it leave more interpretation about his background open for speculation?
(makes you wonder what that guy that breached Obama's security regarding his passport was looking for?)
It will be interesting to see if anything comes of this story or if it is simply dropped.
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