Obama's boast
"At a closed-door, off-the-record meeting with media mavens and corporate titans at the Time Warner Center in Manhattan Tuesday evening, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., the freshman senator who just three years ago was an Illinois state senator, said he had better judgment about foreign policy than any presidential candidate in either party," Jake Tapper of ABC News writes at abc.go.com.
" 'One thing I'm very confident about is my judgment in foreign policy is, I believe, better than any other candidate in this race, Republican or Democrat,' Obama said.
"Others in the race have spent decades in the foreign policy world, including Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., who visited 82 countries as first lady, Vietnam veteran Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., and former Vietnam prisoner of war Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz," Mr. Tapper said.
"But Obama said, 'The notion that somehow from Washington you get this vast foreign policy experience is illusory.'
"The Clinton campaign begged off commenting, but campaigning in New Hampshire and told of Obama's remark, Sen. McCain offered a sarcastic reply.
" 'Well, I also think I'm the most qualified to run the decathlon because I watch sports on television all the time,' McCain said, according to the Associated Press." |
