HUSSEIN OBAMA WHO?

The Foreign Policy Question

OBAMA wants us to believe that because he lived in Jakarta, Indonesia when he was 6 attending a local school and because he had a Kenyan father he is uniquely Foreign Policy qualified.
GET SERIOUS!! GIVE ME A BREAK PEOPLE!!

There are about 30 International Schools in Jakarta, a major international city, like the New York of Southeast Asia, a major financial hub. See, http://www.indoindians.com/education/inter_school.htm
He went to a local school because very likely his parents could not afford to send him to one of the international ones. Just a hunch. Plus, because his Step-Dad had a fascination with the Mosque culture, they probably thought it was cool.

I knew someone who went to an International School in Jakarta. I knew her at the American School in London, England where I went. She wasn't a foreign policy knowledgeable person. She ended up being a third rate fashion model. There are Americans living in every country in the world. There are huge numbers of ex-patriots (xpats) living in almost every major city of the world. They have English speaking schools for the British and American kids in almost EVERY major city. Jakarta has the added benefit of being close enough to Australia that it has tons of Aussies there- more English speaking schools. If you don't go to the English speaking schools, it's because your parents prefer that you learn the local culture or they can't afford the private schooling.

Your El Salvadoran maid had an El Salvadoran Father, does that make her a Foreign policy genious about the entire world? It may mean she knows a bit about El Salvador. She may even know a bit about the airport in Miami. It doesn't give her any astuteness about Foreign Policy strategy.

Kenya is nothing like Ethiopia, South Africa, Cape Verde, Cote D'Ivoire, Senegal, or many other African countries. Contrary to appearances from afar, they are not all alike. Kenya is nothing like the other countries Obama never lived in (probably hasn't visited either) and never had a relative hailing from- like Belgium, Luxembourg, France, England, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Brazil, Chile, Venezuela, Finland, Russia, Croatia, Norway, Macedonia, China, Korea (North or South), Vietnam (North or South) Switzerland, Argentina, Benin, Togo, the Dominican Republic, or the Holy See. Just to name a few.

My Korean dry cleaner had a grandparent in the fields and rice patties of Korea. Doesn't make her a Foreign Policy guru. My favorite Italian grocer in New York had a grand parent who farmed in Southern Italy. Doesn't mean he knows squat about NATO. Doesn't even mean he knows much about Southern Italy.

PEOPLE PEOPLE PEOPLE!!!!!!
What does he think-we are 12??

Next to Hillary's World Experience, OBAMA is 12.

THERE IS NO COMPARISON PEOPLE. She was involved in 8 years of foreign policy deliberations in the White House and has been in the Senate also. NO COMPARISON.

What does having a Kenyan father and going to elementary school in Indonesia have to do with strategic astuteness in matters of European Competition Law, trade deficits with China, Iranian nuclear threats, Venezuelas oil embargos, Bosnian reconstruction, Indian-Pakistani border issues, Kashmiri independence, Palestinian refugees, Israeli-Lebanese conflicts, Mexican border issues, humanitarian crisis of flooding in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, Somali/Darfur genocide?

About as much as having a grandfather who farmed rice patties in Korea does.

He identifies with oppression living on a beach in Hawaii going to Harvard Law? Cry me a volcanic river. Your El Salvadoran maid's family fled a bloody civil war for their lives, the Italian grocer's family fled famine, my Irish roots fled famine and a sort of bloody civil war, the Ethiopian taxi driver fled an attack of Somalis, every person of German or Polish heritage here might have fled oppressive regimes whether Prussian, Nazi or Russian invasions, the local
Lebanese waiter fled a bloody civil war, and don't get me started on the women at the Vietnamese nail salon.

If he thinks that argument holds water, I think he inhaled too much.