Sen. Barack Obama continues trying to counteract Hillary Clinton's experience argument (meaning her extensive and his lack thereof).
But it has been largely ineffective thus far, at least based on the latest polls.
Here is his latest attempt, a mailing sent throughout Iowa.
The real deal with all these candidates on both sides is this: In the past 57 years, there have only been two presidential candidates who won the White House with any extensive foreign policy experience. The first was former Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, supreme commander of Allied forces in Europe during World War II.
'Nuff said.
The second was George Herbert Walker Bush — former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, former U.S. liaison to China, former CIA director and former vice president.
You be the judge.
-- Brian DeBose, national political reporter, The Washington Times
Comments (4)
Very thoughtful and insightful. Keep up the great work.
Posted by Marlene L. Johnson | October 26, 2007 6:52 AM
Hillary has absolutely no experience in foreign affairs.She was a socialist wife of a president that tried her best to turn our private health system into a European style national system.If you think Bush and Company are/was bad wait until this socialistic republic destroying politician is elected.
Posted by fcsanders | November 4, 2007 7:52 AM
Mr. Debose sure hit the nail on the head with this one. I am usually not a statistics person, but these blew me away. Maybe the candidates should try to focus on issues at home before working overseas, which seems to be knot that has been retied way to many times. I mean I am not saying that foreign policies aren't important, I just agree that we have a lot of controversial issues that must be dealt with at home too.
Posted by JMurphy | November 29, 2007 9:08 PM
It seems any one elected president who hasn't had
any foreign service experience has to rely on
exceptionally informed advisors who have had the
experience. Hillary's "foreign" experience is
about as good as mine.
Posted by Helen Laverdure | November 30, 2007 9:26 PM