SubscribeObama Now Says He Visited Pakistan In 1981
From Jake Tapper ABC News:
Obama’s College Trip to Pakistan
April 08, 2008
At a fundraiser in San Francisco, Ca., Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., claimed he had more world experience than his rivals, Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., and introduced a new bit of biographical information.
“Foreign policy is the area where I am probably most confident that I know more and understand the world better than Senator Clinton or Senator McCain,” Obama said, according to the Huffington Post.
“It’s ironic because this is supposedly the place where experience is most needed to be Commander-in-Chief. Experience in Washington is not knowledge of the world. This I know. When Senator Clinton brags ‘I’ve met leaders from eighty countries’ — I know what those trips are like! I’ve been on them. You go from the airport to the embassy. There’s a group of children who do native dance. You meet with the CIA station chief and the embassy and they give you a briefing. You go take a tour of a plant that [with] the assistance of USAID has started something. And then — you go.”
“You do that in eighty countries,” Obama said, “You don’t know those eighty countries. So when I speak about having lived in Indonesia for four years, having family that is impoverished in small villages in Africa –knowing the leaders is not important — what I know is the people…I traveled to Pakistan when I was in college — I knew what Sunni and Shia was [sic] before I joined the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.”
This last part — a college trip to Pakistan — was news to many of us who have been following the race closely. And it was odd that we hadn’t hear about it before, given all the talk of Pakistan during this campaign.
So I asked the Obama campaign for more information.
Apparently, according to the Obama campaign, In 1981 — the year Obama transferred from Occidental College to Columbia University — Obama visited his mother and sister Maya in Indonesia. After that visit, Obama traveled to Pakistan with a friend from college whose family was from there. The Obama campaign says Obama was in Pakistan for about three weeks, staying with his friend’s family in Karachi and also visiting Hyderabad in Southern India.
Hey, maybe this is why Mr. Obama is so eager to invade PakisTON, or even bomb them.
He knows them too well.
But isn’t it funny that he has never mentioned this sojourn before, not even in his two previous autobiographies? Why is that?
After all, spending a three week college vacation in Pakistan is quite a feather in his cap. And it obviously qualifies him to be the President of the United States.
If only there had been snipers.
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April 8th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
Yeah, yeah, well, well, John McCain has been to Viet Nam!
April 8th, 2008 at 1:02 pm
Three weeks ‘ey? Is that the length of those training camps?
Sounds like a lot of young muslim men take that trek.
April 8th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
Well, hell, as long as he is “probably most confident” we should all vote for him.
April 8th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
I am wondering if he is legally able to run for president. It seems to me he has spent more time out of this country, trashing this country that I wonder if he should be our president. I can not stand McCain, but the argument that McCain was not born in the US and might not be elligable to run (even though the Constitution says he can) while not discussing BHO’s history outside of the US and why that should disqualify him is mind boggling. Frankly, I could give a rats ars if he has lived in every country in the world, I want a president who chooses to continue to live in the US because we are the greatest nation this planet has had the privelage of hosting. BHO is for hope and change, maybe he never left Pakistan because it is they who need hope and change and it is us who provide most of the hope and change for the better in this world. I would rather shovel the pig crap out of my barn than shake Mr. Worldly’s hand.
April 8th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
The sheer, midboggling arrogance of Obama never fails to amaze me. He’s qualified to be president because HE spent three weeks in Pakistan…well, I spent six months in Saudi Arabia, so what does that qualify me for? King of the World?
What a load of bull he’s spreading.
If I listed every stinking country and pile of rock I spent a TDY or deployment in while I was wearing blue, I’d stack my overseas time up against Osama Obama’s anytime…and I wasn’t in those countries because my USA-hating mommy married some new mohammedan and was “going native”…I was there serving my country and being on my best behavior so as to reflect well upon my service as well as the United States.
Obama is just a few years older than I am, but he has the stupefying arrogance typical of a teenager. His experiences have all been vicarious, so far as I can tell; he’s lived a life of extreme privelege, yet apparently loathes the country that gave him those opportunities, and now seems to think that all that qualifies his worthless butt to be president…WHAT INCREDIBLE GALL!!!
I spent eight years changing the channel everytime Clinton’s ugly pan came on screen…and I’m at the point where I’m doing the same everytime Obama comes on the tube…I’m just glad that now I have more channels so I never have to see him at all, because, bluntly, this socialist, probably islimeist Chicago sleazeball makes me want to projectile vomit!
April 8th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
I may not add a lot of substance to this post, but I love to read the info you all put out. What I do get to do with this post, hopefully not at the expense of the readers, is say what I want to say about the shitbird democrats. I am glad someone thinks obama is arrogant. He is the most arrogant individual in Washington. What makes it worse is his arrogance is unwarranted! What has he done in his VERY SHORT “career” to warrant such arrogance? Spent some time in a madrassas in indonesia? A 3 week fun college tour through beautiful pakistan (the sights, the smells….)? What the hell was he doing there? He’s obviously a closet muslim that’s just waiting to spring it on us all when his funny looking self is voted in through fraud and intimidation. I can’t handle listening to the mans voice, wtf am I going to do if he is prez? Damnit. I am so sick of the press and their kennedy-like thoughtful poses of this super turd. I can’t believe Petreus had to sit through questioning by this inexperienced worm bag. Oh, that’s another thing. If his competition says he’s inexperienced, then they are being racist.
April 8th, 2008 at 6:06 pm
You can’t make this crap up, nobody would believe it.
April 8th, 2008 at 7:13 pm
…..”What has he done in his VERY SHORT “career…….”
He’s blaaaaaaaaack! That makes all the difference to some. Three weeks, eh? A lot of us here put on a uniform and spent a lot of time wearing it so that this self-aggrandizing asshole can prattle on about his upbringing and regale us with tales of how his many and varied experiences, gleaned from his priveleged youth, somehow qualify him for the most influential job on earth. Super turd describes himto a “T”.
April 9th, 2008 at 2:55 am
Good one, JMG.
Hey, I’ve been to a lot of foreign countrys, too. I even live in one. Can I be president?
But then again, in retrospect, I probably can’t. I need to write a couple of kumbaya books and denounce my ancestry. And get the liberal brain wash treatment.
I’ve also been in the military during those experiences, so obviously those living experiences don’t count.
So, naw, my dream of being president is in the too hard box….and in the too stupid box as well. Guess I’ll just keep lurkin’ about.
Maybe Obamamama needs to do a bit of self reflection, too, on his qualifications for the office.
One advantage to an Obamamama presidency…. funnier than a Carter presidency. One term, then out… if our country can survive.
Psst… Obama! Watch out for the killer attack rabbits!
April 9th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
Reality Bytes! Reporting For Duty!
I hereby put forth my candidacy for President, as I have traveled extensively to foreign lands in my lifetime and am uniquely qualified to lead our great country.
The Bahamas (someone stole my watch)
Barbados
Berkeley (in a rented black Chevy Suburan w/ blacked out windows as a social experiment - OK, I wanted to piss off as many liberals as possible that day)
Bimini (before it went all commercial)
Canada (their fireworks suck)
Costa Rica (their fishing doesn’t)
Dominican Republic
England (if the weather wasn’t so bad, I wouldn’t have noticed how bad their food actually was)
Fenway Park (during a NY Yankees assault)
Candle Stick Park (I might as well have been a tennis match)
Grenada (after Reagan cleaned it up)
Greenwich Village (where urban camo are pastels)
Italy (where everyone has 2 jobs. One the government knows about & the other is none of their damn business)
Massachusetts (where calls for Congressional hearings about the Patriots Superbowl loss to the NY team are reaching 9/11 mythic proportions)
Mexico (which is a lot like California except with less Mexicans)
New Jersey (home of the first proud gay American governor who did the best damn Monica Lewinsky impersonation to any trucker who would take the time along the NJ Turnpyke)
New York City (where anyone with 13 billion bucks can become mayor)
Nieman Marcus (proof that people with money & people with taste are diametrically opposed traits)
San Francisco (where a former pimp & shake down artist can go on to become the people’s greatest stateman)
Saint Luca
Saint Martin (the Dutch Side)
Saint Marteen (the French Side)
Yugoslavia (well, actually we just made a wrong turn while in Italy on our way to the restaurant)
April 9th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
You mean you’ve never been to Disneyland, RB?
In addition to Pock-e-ston, Obama’s been to Chicago. And he must have been to Fantasyland. too, ’cause he thinks he should be president. I think it might have been the angel dust that did it. ;-}
April 9th, 2008 at 10:52 pm
R B , HAW-haw . Your a bad bad man . Haw ,Mexico ,haw ! Mrs. wirenut thinks I should quit beer and blog . It’s the foam and spew syndrome . Paper towels for table one , please .
April 10th, 2008 at 9:34 am
JohnMG: You mean you’ve never been to Disneyland, RB?
CRAP!!! I FORGOT!!! BEEN THERE!!
After 4 hours, I had to ask the guy in the mouse costume, “WHERE’S HEINEKEN LAND?”
FYI - It’s not in Disneyland.
BTW: You can’t get cell service in Tomorrow Land either.