While most lawmakers praised Haley, 45, the governor of South Carolina, a few expressed concerns about her lack
of foreign policy experience.
While I don't support Obama in any way, if I were recommending possible VP candidates to him, I would suggest John Edwards (helps immensely with the so - called «Bubba» vote that clearly views Obama with suspicion); Joe Biden (solid Washington credentials PLUS
huge foreign policy experience that Obama desparately needs); or Gov. Richardson (helps Obama with the Hispanic vote where Obama is weak, and also beefs up foreign policy credentials).
Recchia, a former city councilman who lives in the Brooklyn part of the district, was an uneven campaigner and generated scorn when he
claimed foreign policy experience for running a U.S. - Japanese exchange program for high school students.
With absolutely zero
foreign policy experience and very little executive experience, she was quite obviously not chosen for her qualifications, but for political reasons — perhaps to attract disgruntled Hillary Clinton supporters.
I couldn't help but wonder, but would John McCain have picked a first - term Alaska governor with
no foreign policy experience if he were a man?
Democrats hope that Biden's working - class roots and
foreign policy experience will help Obama, who informed Biden of his decision Thursday.
The Associated Press reported Tuesday that Warren is on Clinton's vice presidential short list with at least two others: Virginia Senator Tim Kaine, a well - liked lawmaker from an important general election battleground state who also has
foreign policy experience as a member of the Armed Services Committee; and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro of Texas, a 41 - year - old rising star.
Then he unrolls footage of Recchia, when asked about
his foreign policy experience, talking about how he arranged a foreign exchange trip for students to Japan, and also saying he'd been to Israel and Italy.
Governor Kaine simply lacks any national security,
foreign policy experience that Obama needs to overcome to fight the increased attacks on his experience.
Hague's mature veteran status was similarly valued when Cameron lacked
foreign policy experience.
At the White House Correspondents» Dinner earlier this year, President Barack Obama owned the stage with one - line zingers referring to Prince George's «slap in the face» when he met him in his bathrobe, Trump's lack of
foreign policy experience, and ended his speech with the words «Obama out», before dropping the mic.
She had a son who died in combat in Iraq, and this, combined with a lack of
foreign policy experience, gives the CIA plenty to worry about.
How did the American public, privileged as it is compared to so much of the world, elect a media celebrity with
no foreign policy experience, a man who has blatantly and irresponsibly politicized a dire environmental reality?