Barack Obama thinks living overseas for four years makes him plenty qualified to handle the foreign policy of the United States:
“It’s that experience, that understanding, not just of what world leaders I went and talked to in the ambassadors house I had tea with, but understanding the lives of the people like my grandmother who lives in a tiny hut in Africa,” Obama, D-Ill., told a crowd of would-be voters in Coralville, Iowa, on Friday.
By that yardstick, I should be King of the World.
I’ve lived in Germany, France and Greenland for a total of 10 years overseas. I was in Germany when the Berlin Wall went up (that’s Secretary of the Army experience), was in France when DeGaulle kicked the U.S. out of NATO (that’s Secretary of State experience) and was in Thule, Greenland when a B-52 with four H-bombs crashed, even helped with the cleanup on that one (that’s Secretary of Defense experience).
I dated a Canadian girl, a Dutch girl and several German girls, so I have plenty of diplomatic experience. Not only that, but I’ve met two Supreme Commanders of Allied Powers in Europe, and both were a damn sight better at the job than Wesley Clark. And I got into a fight once in the Airman’s Club in Thule with a Danish construction worker and two Canadians broke it up, so I have experience in international conflicts.
Without Obama, I’d never have known I was such Chief Executive material.
UPDATE: TigerHawk makes a good point:
[N]o Iowan who has been as successful as Barack Obama would let his grandmother live in a “tiny hut.”
Somebody ought to take up a collection for the poor woman.
