The Experience Primary

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. ~Barack Obama

I forgot this is supposed to be reassuring and make us want Obama to be President.  I’ve been reading The Economist since I was 10–do I get to be Secretary of State? - Daniel Larison

Obama, remember, left Indonesia when he was ten years old. If that constitutes invaluable experience I'm a Dutchman. On the other hand, of course, as I've suggested before Hillary's experience isn't quite as extensive as she likes to have you believe.

Comments

[Hugo Pottisch]

Barack is being modest.

Probably the strongest experience he has had in foreign relations is the fact that he has spent forty+ years living in the US?

How can you do foreign relations without knowing how foreign feels?

If anything - Barack is overqualified on this issue and assumes that people will get this instinctively by simply looking at him or his name?

But I can understand why he is careful not to make this point too explicitly.