Axelrod: Obama Is ‘Well Traveled’

VOTE FOR WHO CAN WIN 1. Obama polls as the ONLY Candidate that beats ALL Republicans in a General Election match up.

2. Edwards has NO money to compete in the primary even if he won Iowa.

3. Hillary is hated by half the Country at the start of a General Election contest. She will motivate and bring out EVERY Republican, Independent and Democrat that already despise her. To vote against her and she WILL lose the General Election to a Republican.

If this were football we would pick the BEST Quarterback to WIN the SEASON & SUPERBOWL and match up data supports that he can BEAT ALL the opponents.

We would not pick a quarterback based on he has a family member who once played for the team or that he could win us just ONE game.

If he lies about this What else is he lying about?

Biden ‘o8! (he has traveled)

Kansas Well, he has been to a Kansas suburb where he was raised by his upper middle class grandparents.  Well-to-do blacks living with grandparents in white suburbs are treated very well by their neighbors and by their teachers who go overboard in showing everyone that they are not prejudiced. Obama has not been tested.

Half-Truths Oh OK I See Now How He’s So Close To Senator Clinton In Legislative Endorsements,That Survey Was Done July,17 2007′ I Guess A Small Matter That You so Conventiently Left Off Of Your Post HUH,People Like You,& Obama Are Pathetic,Keep Covering His LIES

Obama Travel Has he traveled the USA. Does he know what the USA has for problems. Can he communicate with the people in the USA who need attention to their problems? Hillary had 8 years within the Clinton administration and now someone is telling me she needs another 8 years to do what she should have done before. The basis for the argument is travel. My God the man (Obama) has been walking the streets of Chicago and solving problems. It is time to get rid of the Clintons, the Bushs and the rest of the clowns who are trying to slip and slide into the White House. If Clinton is good and wants to do something for the USA then she should consult with Obama. Someone has got to give the voter a chance! If someone is asking questions then the Internet is the answer and not waiting for someone who is dependent upon advertising dollars to create an opinion for us. Obama is the only creditable candidate for the problems that we face.

Traveled To Corner THe only place Obama traveled was form his livingroom to the street corner to sell dope. 

Smart and Well Traveled Yes, WELL TRAVELED!!  Obama ’08

Bsh? Travelled to Mexico before elected – now there’s a resume for foreign affairs!

Obama’s travel Research isn’t hard when you actually are interested in doing it.

“Obama has traveled extensively in his capacity as a member of the Foreign Relations Committee and has visited Russia, Ukraine, and Azerbaijan in Asia; Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, and the Palestinian Territories in the Middle East; and Chad, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, and South Africa in Africa. Obama has also co-sponsored the “Lugar-Obama Act” with Republican Senator Richard Lugar who was Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations at the time. This act was a bi-partisan effort to increase U.S. security in terms of the elimination of conventional weapons and weapons of mass destruction. This legislation came out of Obama’s trip with Senator Richard Lugar to Russia, the Ukraine and Azerbaijan.

Obama has also sponsored legislation such as the “Democratic Republic of Congo Relief, Security, and Democracy Promotion Act” which was signed into law by President Bush on December 22, 2006. Obama has co-sponsored immigration related bills related to his service on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee including the Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act” (www.obamapedia.org/page/Does+Barack+Obama+have+enough+experience+to+be+president%3F?t=anon).

Obama's Travels? No, but you have to visit at least a few countries to be “well-travelled”.  Threshold?  Don't know, but I've been to fifteen, and I don't consider myself “well-travelled”.

Bsh? Travelled to Mexico before elected – now there's a resume for foreign affairs!

I don't have my copy handy, but Obama took a trip to Europe at the age of 26 and I think talked about that trip in his first book, Dreams of My Father.

Traveled To Corner THe only place Obama traveled was from his livingroom to the street corner to sell dope. 

Obama's travels Yep, I actually went online and searched out a source to answer this question.  Low and behold, there were other sites too like HuffPo where Sam Stein's article also discussed Obama's overseas travel as a U.S. Senator –

“Obama's lack of travel to that region of the world (Western Europe), has been, to a certain extent, offset by fact-finding explorations elsewhere. As noted first by Steve Clemons on the Washington Note, in 2005, the Senator went to Russia and toured several post-Soviet countries, working with Sen. Richard Lugar, R-IN, on issues of nuclear proliferation. In 2006, he traveled through the Middle East, including tours of Iraq and Israel. That same year he ventured to Africa, where he had his much-discussed homecoming in Kenya. And, despite traveling only once to London, Obama has met at least three times with then-Prime Minister Tony Blair.”

It's intellectually lazy to disagree or argue against something because you haven't done your own homework… unless you're just prone to being biased against Obama no matter what the facts are.  Then it's just stupid.

Come on, be better than that.

Not Well Traveled He hasn't even visited Great Britain, our #1 ally.

He thinks because he spent 3 years in Indonesia as a kid that he has experience, but he doesn't.

He doesn't bother to show up for votes.

He talks about change, but produces no major legislation for change.

He's Bush-lite. All talk and no experience. We've had this for 8 years. Can we please finally elect someone that is smart and experienced?

Half-Truths Oh OK I See Now How He's So Close To Senator Clinton In Legislative Endorsements,That Survey Was Done July,17 2007' I Guess A Small Matter That You so Conventiently Left Off Of Your Post HUH,People Like You,& Obama Are Pathetic,Keep Covering His LIES

Described on pg. 301-304 I didn't have a copy of the book handy, but someone emailed me the key passages.  He describes his three week trip through Europe on his way to Kenya quite beautifully:

“For three weeks I had traveled alone, down one side of the continent and up the other, by bus and by train mostly, a guidebook in hand.  I took tea by the Thames and watched children chase each other through the chestnut groves of Luxembourg Gardens. I crossed the Plaza Mejor at high noon, with its De Chirico shadows and sparrows swirling across cobalt skies; and watched night fall over the Palstine, waiting for the first stars to appear, listening to the wind and its whispers of mortality.

“And by the end of the first week or so, I realized that I'd made a mistake.  It wasn't that Europe wasn't beautiful; everything was just as I'd imagined it.  It just wasn't mine.  I felt as if I were living out someone else's romance; the incompleteness of my own history stood between me and the sites I saw like a hard pane of glass.” (p. 301)

He continues to write of meeting a man from Senegal in Spain and traveling with him for a while.  When they part, he writes, at first he feels that he'd like to go with the man, imagining a “life of open roads,” but concludes that the encounter itself was enough:  “[M]aybe that was all any of us had a right to expect:  a chance encounter, a shared story, the act of small kindness . . .” (p.303)  And then he goes to Africa.

Kansas Well, he has been to a Kansas suburb where he was raised by his upper middle class grandparents.  Well-to-do blacks living with grandparents in white suburbs are treated very well by their neighbors and by their teachers who go overboard in showing everyone that they are not prejudiced. Obama has not been tested.

What about the Lezident thing? But did Obama make any cracks about running for Lezident?

http://www.lezident….

It keeps coming up.

She never refused a free trip If there is a free trip paid by the taxpayers or corporations to the finest food or hotels anywhere in the world, Hillary Clinton will take it.

She doesn't mind spending someone elses money to get all that “experience”.

What stupid answer to a stupid question.

And We're Looking to the Wisdom of Iwoan's to Pick a President? Gotta love this bonehead. “He hasn't even visited Great Britain, our #1 ally.” Umm, let's see – a few entries up the page and oh, look here, a quote from one of his books: “…I took tea by the Thames …”. Ummm, you see the Thames is a river that runs through London that is actually a city in England or 'Great Britain' as you witless midwesterners call it. Jump into the new millenium when you get a chance, maybe pick up a map of the world. Jeebus, it's no wonder that the candidates only show up in your backwater burgs once every four years. I can imagine that they can barely tolerate your ignorant homespun wit and wisdom for only a few hours at a time. Why do you think most of them don't want to take your questions at their events anymore? Take a night class or two, get up off your grotesquely fat butts and help the world see your part of the world as something more than flyover country! And to think you people are allowed to vote…cornpone fools!

And We’re Looking to the Wisdom of Iwoan’s to Pick a President? Gotta love this bonehead. “He hasn’t even visited Great Britain, our #1 ally.” Umm, let’s see – a few entries up the page and oh, look here, a quote from one of his books: “…I took tea by the Thames …”. Ummm, you see the Thames is a river that runs through London that is actually a city in England or ‘Great Britain’ as you witless midwesterners call it. Jump into the new millenium when you get a chance, maybe pick up a map of the world. Jeebus, it’s no wonder that the candidates only show up in your backwater burgs once every four years. I can imagine that they can barely tolerate your ignorant homespun wit and wisdom for only a few hours at a time. Why do you think most of them don’t want to take your questions at their events anymore? Take a night class or two, get up off your grotesquely fat butts and help the world see your part of the world as something more than flyover country! And to think you people are allowed to vote…cornpone fools!

well-traveled not the issue… what u do is I don’t think it’s really an issue of how many countries he has visited, although I would like to see Barack provide more info regarding his European travels.  (note: I’m an Obama supporter)

I think it’s more important what one does, when one has an opportunity to effect positive change.  His August 2006 trip to Kenya and South Africa speak volumes about what Senator Obama is capable of…  In Kenya, he and his wife openly took an HIV test and he criticized corruption in the Kenyan government.  Brave actions and words that demonstrate true leadership.

Furthermore, when visiting South Africa and meeting with the Treatment Action Campaign, he had these words to say regarding the South African health minister, who is notorious for providing incorrect medical information by greatly exaggerating the side-effects of HIV medications and by promoting the supposed benefits of high-dose multivitamins (and of other quack concoctions):

“On the treatment side the information being provided by the minister of health is not accurate. It is not an issue of Western science versus African science, it is just science and it’s not right.”

and later on he criticized Mbeki’s quite diplomacy regarding Zimbabwe, when saying “South Africa has tried a strategy of quiet diplomacy… I don’t think it has been as successful as it could have been. I would like to see a more vocal policy in respect of human rights and pressing the Mugabe government to right the ship.”

BRAVO!!

Obama’s travels Yep, I actually went online and searched out a source to answer this question.  Low and behold, there were other sites too like HuffPo where Sam Stein’s article also discussed Obama’s overseas travel as a U.S. Senator –

“Obama’s lack of travel to that region of the world (Western Europe), has been, to a certain extent, offset by fact-finding explorations elsewhere. As noted first by Steve Clemons on the Washington Note, in 2005, the Senator went to Russia and toured several post-Soviet countries, working with Sen. Richard Lugar, R-IN, on issues of nuclear proliferation. In 2006, he traveled through the Middle East, including tours of Iraq and Israel. That same year he ventured to Africa, where he had his much-discussed homecoming in Kenya. And, despite traveling only once to London, Obama has met at least three times with then-Prime Minister Tony Blair.”

It’s intellectually lazy to disagree or argue against something because you haven’t done your own homework… unless you’re just prone to being biased against Obama no matter what the facts are.  Then it’s just stupid.

Come on, be better than that.

Research? You got your reseach from a Obama supporter website?
Oh geesh, voters are scary!