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Old 09-29-08, 02:23 PM   #60
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Originally Posted by GlobalExplorer
But where did she go besides Alaska and Wanka County Kansas? And if the answer to that is, practically nowhere, is some experience in state / foreign affairs no more a requirement for one of the highest, most important offices in the world? What is whe going to do when she faces people like Putin, Zarkozy and Belusconi? Lecture them in her famous style, the way she did with the journalists? Is she intend on becoming the laughing stock of history?
It never has been that important in the past. Take Harry Truman for example. Except for a stint in the Army during WW1 he never left the country but that didn't stop him from being able to deal with foreign potentates quite effectively when he had to.
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