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Speaking to Fox News Carl Cameron Saturday morning, Republican VP nominee Paul Ryan made the case for why he believes his foreign policy credentials are stronger than President Obamas, emphasizing that he has been a voting member of Congress longer than the president. Ryan cited his votes in favor of the Iraq War as evidence that he has had more foreign policy experience than Obama.
Ive been in Congress for a number of years, he told Cameron. Thats more experience than Barack Obama had when he came into office.
I voted to send people to war, he added.
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/paul-ryan-on-foreign-policy-credentials-i-voted-to-send-people-to-war/
elleng
(130,974 posts)WCGreen
(45,558 posts)Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)Obama...
Attorney
Constitutional Law Professor
Illinois State Senator - 8 years
U.S. Senator*** - 4 years
U.S. President - 4 years
Obama wins
*** U.S. Senator: 20052008
Committees
Obama held assignments on the Senate Committees for Foreign Relations, Environment and Public Works, and Veterans' Affairs through December 2006.[95] In January 2007, he left the Environment and Public Works committee and took additional assignments with Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions and Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.[96] He also became Chairman of the Senate's subcommittee on European Affairs.[97] As a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Obama made official trips to Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia and Africa. He met with Mahmoud Abbas before Abbas became President of the Palestinian National Authority, and gave a speech at the University of Nairobi in which he condemned corruption within the Kenyan government.[98]
Legislation
Info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_obama#U.S._Senator:_2005.E2.80.932008
So, I would say that just Obama's four years in The U.S. Senate alone beats all of the years Ryan has been in The House.
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)Ryan is as big if not a bigger doofus, than the quitter-in-chief, the former Governor of Alaska. I really don't get why people are saying this guy is smart. Everything he says sounds as stupid as when Palin would have her gaffes. He might be a bit more articulate, but I don't really see that either. He is Romney lite.
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)Ryan has been primarily involved in budget matters and has little foreign policy experience.[57] Critics noted this, with former Democratic congressman and former ambassador to India Timothy J. Roemer telling Reuters: "I think his experience as a vice presidential candidate is thin; or for a future president and commander-in-chief, it's virtually absent."[58] Senior Romney adviser Eric Fehrnstrom defended Ryan, stating that his position as House Budget Committee chairman has given him intimate knowledge of defense spending and initiatives and adding that Ryan has been in Congress for 14 years, "longer than Barack Obama when he decided to run for president."[59] During his tenure in the Congress, Ryan has participated in seven trips abroad as a member of a congressional delegation.[60]
Reviewing the history of past presidential tickets, Jonathan Bernstein concluded that "depending on how one scores these things," Romney/Ryan is "certainly the ticket with the least foreign policy and national security experience since at least 1948, and perhaps as far back as 1912."[61] On the other hand, Senator John McCain and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich have compared the Romney/Ryan ticket's foreign policy credentials favorably with that of Ronald Reagan.[59]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_ryan#Foreign_policy
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Foreign and military policy
Ryan voted in 2001 and 2004 to end the embargo on Cuba,[147][148][149][150] but later reversed his positions, and since 2007 has voted against easing the embargo.[150] In 2008 Ryan told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "If we're going to have free trade with China, why not Cuba?"[149]
Ryan was a "reliable supporter of the (George W. Bush) administration's foreign policy priorities" who voted for the 2002 Iraq Resolution, authorizing President George W. Bush to use military force in Iraq.[60] Ryan also voted for the Iraq War troop surge of 2007.[60] In May 2012, Ryan voted for H.R. 4310, which would increase defense spending, including spending for the Afghanistan War and for various weapon systems, to the level of $642 billion $8 billion more than previous spending levels.[151]
In 2009, Ryan termed the Obama administrations' "reset" of relations with Russia as "appeasement."[124] Daniel Larison of the The American Conservative wrote that Ryan "seems to conceive of U.S. power abroad mostly in terms of military strength" and "truly is a product of the era of George W. Bush."[124]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_ryan#Foreign_and_military_policy
p.s. Bolding is mine, for emphasis.
cynatnite
(31,011 posts)That would make for a good commercial.
lumpy
(13,704 posts)nt
Berlum
(7,044 posts)What a sucky qualification for anything, even dog catcher...
lunatica
(53,410 posts)Ryan, voting for what everyone now knows was a pack of lies to go to war is nothing to brag about. It shows your international experience is something you should be more embarrassed about than proud of.
Shhhh!
Scuba
(53,475 posts)... Paul Ryan = FAIL