How old were you when you got your passport?

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VolDad said:
So her parents did not get her one like your parents got you one. So what.
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Yes, my parents "got" me one so that we could travel abroad...when I was 5. When I lived in Scotland for a summer, and visited about European countries, and learned about other cultures than our own.

And have since traveled to Japan, Turkey, Chile, Argentina, Canada, Mexico, Greece, Italy, France, Luxembourg, Belgium, Holland, Wales, England, Scotland, Denmark, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Jamaica, which is approximately 17 more countries than your VP nominee has visited.

But I guess foreign experience isn't too important.
 
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TennNC said:
Yes, my parents "got" me one so that we could travel abroad...when I was 5. When I lived in Scotland for a summer, and visited about European countries, and learned about other cultures than our own.

And have since traveled to Japan, Turkey, Chile, Argentina, Canada, Mexico, Greece, Italy, France, Luxembourg, Belgium, Holland, Wales, England, Scotland, Denmark, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Jamaica, which is approximately 17 more countries than your VP nominee has visited.

But I guess foreign experience isn't too important.
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And you have mingled with the leaders of these countries since age 5. I'm impressed.

Visiting museums, beaches and bars in other countries does not count in this instance.
 
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KentheOrange said:
And you have mingled with the leaders of these countries since age 5. I'm impressed.

Visiting museums, beaches and bars in other countries does not count in this instance.
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Well, I also covered foreign policy in Washington for 3 years, and that doesn't qualify me either for POTUS or VP.

Our country would be in deep doo-doo if I became POTUS. I think it's important that our potential POTUS be much, much, much, much, much, much more well traveled and experienced in foreign affairs than I am.

Do you see my point?
 
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lawgator1 said:
I'm just saying, as a Volnation Mod it is unlikely that LIO will be called upon to protect national security and so her understanding of foreign affairs and international relations is not quite as important as Palin's.

I don't understand why this is not a legitimate question of her ability to step in and run the country if need be.
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Law, I'm afraid many on this board don't want to hear about it. They're more comfortable staying put, electing someone who they feel they could go hunting with, or share a steak dinner with, or watch a hockey game with, regardless of how much they understand what's going on outside their gigantic, empty state.
 
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I will take someone with executive experience and a record of helping OUR citizens as opposed to understanding other cultures.

Maybe barack should have spent a little less time traveling abroad and he could have been "present" a little more.
 
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JZVOL said:
I will take someone with executive experience and a record of helping OUR citizens as opposed to understanding other cultures.

Maybe barack should have spent a little less time traveling abroad and he could have been "present" a little more.
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do you know what a community organizer does? are the people in Chicago not OUR citizens?

a teacher - sorry, professor?

a state legislator?

a US Senator?
 
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TennNC said:
Yes, my parents "got" me one so that we could travel abroad...when I was 5. When I lived in Scotland for a summer, and visited about European countries, and learned about other cultures than our own.

And have since traveled to Japan, Turkey, Chile, Argentina, Canada, Mexico, Greece, Italy, France, Luxembourg, Belgium, Holland, Wales, England, Scotland, Denmark, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Jamaica, which is approximately 17 more countries than your VP nominee has visited.

But I guess foreign experience isn't too important.
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wow, sounds like you have loads of foreign experience. Those summer abroad programs and vacations are highly educational.

I didn't have my passport until I was 30. Does it matter? By then I'd seen as much world as you had.
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TennNC said:
Well, I also covered foreign policy in Washington for 3 years, and that doesn't qualify me either for POTUS or VP.

Our country would be in deep doo-doo if I became POTUS. I think it's important that our potential POTUS be much, much, much, much, much, much more well traveled and experienced in foreign affairs than I am.

Do you see my point?
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Yet you reject the idea that some type of executive or command experience is important?

Each of the tickets and players on the tickets have experience deficits. Palin has the least amount of total experience but the gap between her and Obama is more narrow than that between Obama and McCain.

If experience is so critical to you, the clear choice is McCain. He's the hands down experience winner over Obama.
 
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TennNC said:
do you know what a community organizer does? are the people in Chicago not OUR citizens?

a teacher - sorry, professor?

a state legislator?

a US Senator?
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do you know what community organizers, teachers, legislators lack?
 
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I was a year and a half...........

Also, what does this have to do with any thing relevant to the election?
 
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lawgator1 said:
I'm just saying, as a Volnation Mod it is unlikely that LIO will be called upon to protect national security and so her understanding of foreign affairs and international relations is not quite as important as Palin's.

I don't understand why this is not a legitimate question of her ability to step in and run the country if need be.
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Who ever said it is not a legitimate question?

She would be surrounded my pencil neck advisors as Obama will be........

You honestly believe Joe Biden is the end all for Obama's foreign policy?
 
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OrangeEmpire said:
I was a year and a half...........

Also, what does this have to do with any thing relevant to the election?
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sorry - I should've broken it down further to, "where in the world has Sarah Palin traveled to in her lifetime?"
 
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TennNC said:
sorry - I should've broken it down further to, "where in the world has Sarah Palin traveled to in her lifetime?"
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Why does that matter????????

Have you ever looked at previous presidents to see where they have traveled??????

It is meaningless.....
 
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Received my first passport at about one years old. Sarah Palin is much more qualified to be VP than me.
 
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TennNC -

How does not traveling out of the United States until last year disqualify Palin from being Vice President (or President) of the United States? Answer: It doesn't. The qualifications are set in the constitution, and nowhere does it mention anything about having traveled outside of the United States. The constitution says you must be at least 35 years of age and born in the United States. Bottom line: Sarah Palin is just as qualified as you. Case closed.

EDIT to ADD: I'm assuming you're 35 years of age. I have no way of knowing.
 
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TennNC said:
how about beauty queens?
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whomever else you'd like to list in helping prop up Obama as having some relevant experience.

I simply regurgitated the names to you and you're the one apparently without an answer.

Every position you mentioned has a glaring hole that governors do not have.
 
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one of the times Obama used his passport was when he traveled to Kenya to actively campaign for Raila Odinga, who, after losing the election, engaged in widespread violence against the Christian population of Kenya.
 
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TennNC said:
do you know what a community organizer does? are the people in Chicago not OUR citizens?
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Just wondering, what is his crowning achievement as community organizer? Just curious since that seems to be one of the things you people hang your hat on.
 
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JZVOL said:
I will take someone with executive experience and a record of helping OUR citizens as opposed to understanding other cultures.

Maybe barack should have spent a little less time traveling abroad and he could have been "present" a little more.
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We have a fundamentally different view of the world and the job. The U.S. is not just another country. We have procured for ourselves, for better or worse, some serious obligations to act out of more than our own immediate self-interest at every turn.

That does not mean giving away our sovereignty or acting against our interests. But it does mean that we have to take a broader view of things, and the effects of our decisions, than simply "what's best for 'merica."

George Bush has been the antithesis of that. Even Ronald Reagan, who took some fairly bold action here and there, had the sense to view the world as a lot more than simply us against them.
 
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