And entertaining the murderous father of modern terrorism, Yasser Arafat, a dozen times in the White House with your pandering husband doesn't count as foreign policy experience either.

You call this 'mocking'? I don't think any experience of a child 'prepares' them for the presidency. Lighten up.

She's acting bitter and indignant and (gasp) intolerant of America's diversity. She's a failure in the making. Go ahead, Dems, nominate her and watch the White House stay red.

Obama is above the slop that Clinton is trying to pull him into.

Tell me Hillary, how does 'planting' questions, 'flip-flopping' on important issues, voting for the Iraq War, hiding your HillaryCare papers, and taking stolen money from a fugitive, "prepares one for the complex international challenges the next president will face."

There you go again Hillary.

Mudslinging.

The difference between the two can be summed up as follows:
Hillary: Turn up the heat!
Obama: More light, less heat

Hillary has my vote!

I think Obama was way off base saying living in a foreign country as a child has given him the foreign policy training he needs to be President. Well, maybe I'm off base now...he could be President of his Student Council with that experience, but to be President of the United States, well, it takes a lot more real life adult experience than that.

Senator Clinton has got my vote too!

Sadly, Hillary is quite mistaken. She is not the most qualified, nor the wisest. Without the name recognition of her Husband, who would know her? Maybe the people in NY NY, just another freshman senator with big ideas. Her passed along fame gives her a platform and NOT her abilities. Who has risen from nowhere to national prominence? Who has equivalent experience but a better heart? I say it is Obama. A person who says what people want to hear will satisfy them, but a person who says what is right will expand them. It is a fool and a cowards path to take the easy road of war, as was done, and to not rise above, which takes courage, and hillary failed in being wise. We laud Ghandi and Mandela who rose above the slaps and hits and punches, and went beyond. We need such a president. Sometimes the best way is not the obvious one, or the easiest. We are not at war with countries, or a people, but an idea, that grew for various reasons, and the war in Iraq is actually fostering and adding to the number of terrorist, serving as both a generator and magnet for terrorists. So if the best thinking of "traditional" defense politics ends up like that, isn't it time to rethink how we approach these problems? And isn't time for a person who would also rethink? if we negate the very things we hold dear, honor, respect, justice, to "protect" ourselves, don't we really lose? And for economic and social policy, wisdom for me counts more than claimed experience.

So who's slinging the mud now? Hypocrite Hillary, that's who!

Hillary better remember, what comes around goes around. Making remarks regarding Obama's childhood is childish.
She and Bill need to go back to Arkansas, and retire.

Wow, Hillary is really getting desperate. Her perceived invincibility is crumbling. Even her pathetic husband can't help her now.

You know, i didn't think it sounded like Obama was counting his childhood as his foriegn policy experience (he has real live grown up experience with foreign relations- like him going to Russia w/Luger to help try to negotiate the problem of loose nukes between foreign borders and being on the senate foreign relations commitee)

But it is true that how and where you are raised influences who you become as an adult. No one can deny that.

I don't think Obama was saying anything more than that.

Hillary is simply the best. Best product of american system. She is way ahead of Obama. Obama is a fresh state senator. That's all. It is sad to see Democrat No.2 is a "Top Gun" aspiration. The overall portfolio is not strong. Sorry, Democrats. Lucky you get Hillary. Assume She is not there, there is no debate, and Obama will simply be ignored and lose straight in 2008.

"Apa Kabar"? Obama has thoughts of addressing the largest MUSLIM country in the world? I could just sense his pride on his Islam affinity. Just because he can say "apa kabar" (whatever the heck that means) doesn't make him presidentiable. His childhood upbringing in Indonesia prepared him for the presidency. He calls that experience in foreign policy? Now that is HILLARious!!! You got to be kidding me. This Obama is just so ignorant and brain-dead.

I'm not sure exactly what Mr. Obama was trying to say. Maybe he feels more interationally savy because of his childhood. I do know,but he does seem to stands for truth and honesty. The pure nastiness and mean spiritness of Hillary' comment lost her my vote. And all those who keep saying he's a muslum,which anyone with half a brain knows is not true.

If Obama's four years overseas, between the ages of 6 and 10, qualify him to become President of the US given all the problems Bush and his neo-con, right wing Republicans have created, then my Mom who spent 25 years living aboard make her a better candidate for president than naive, inexperienced Obama.

Swissdiver: "Presidentiable" Talk about ignorant and brain-dead....... On to more important matters. I tend to trust Barack's foreign relations knowledge more so than one who directed the housekeepers for eight years. He has been the understudy of one of the Republicans best, co-chairing the Senate Foreign Relations Committee alongside Dick Lugar, a man highly regarded and respected on both sides of the aisle. Also understanding the languages of foreign countries can only be a positive, especially when that language happens to be that of countries who have been designated by GW,(who has yet to learn the English language), as "axis of evil." May not be able to pull the wool over Barack's eyes in a foreign relation meeting with these folks. No thanks to the director of table settings, I'd rather have the intelligence of Mr. Obama sitting at the table.

Obama's international life experiences gives him a unique perspective and will benefit him in dealing with foreign and cross cultural issues. No other candidate has a similar background.

And Hillary's foreign policy experience is what? Having tea and crumpets with wives of world leaders during her husband's presidency? And what was Bill Clinton's foreign policy experience prior to running for president? Perhaps negotiating with au pair girls and immigrant maids.