Did Bill Clinton have foreign policy experience prior to his run?

[closeupready]

I don't think so.

[BOSSHOG]

1. As Governor of Arkansas

he had some dealings (border disputes) with Louisiana and Louisiana is a foreign country.

[jakem]

2. does that Hooker from Thailand count?

oh. i shouldnt have said that

:shrug:

[Catherine Vincent]

3. No. That's why he chose Al Gore as his running mate. nt

[woolldog]

5. what foreign policy experience did al gore have?

[Catherine Vincent]

7. I don't know, ask Bill Clinton. nt

[AlGore-08.com]

8. Tons. In 92, Gore was an internationally recognized leader in arms control and the environment

He was on the House Intelligence Committee staring in 1980, and the Senate Armed Services Committee starting in 1986.

If you read "Earth In The Balance" (which many people thought was the beginning of his 1992 primary campaign), you'll see him mention a lot of the work he did overseas.

His (archived) 2000 campaign website lists a few of his major foreign policy accomplishments:

http://web.archive.org/web/20001107015831/www.algore.com/foreign_policy/for_accomp.html

[woolldog]

9. Ahhh ok.

Thanks. I remember him running for president in 84 I think?

[blm]

4. Well, he did obey GHWBush's orders to ignore the CIA drugrunning operations being run out of

Arkansas as they had to do SOMETHING with all those tons of cheap IranContra cocaine they were saddled with at the time.

Black communities all across the country were targeted most heavily for the dumping - and that report came out in 1996 from Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Gary Webb and was verified by CIA documents presented in court in 1998. Too bad America was too involved with the saga of a blue dress and didn't notice.

[BlueManDude]

6. One of the few elections in which issue #1 was not foreign policy/national security

that's why he won. the soviet union had just fallen and we were talking about a peace dividend. that campaign was about domestic issues.

this one is not.

[closeupready]

10. Good point, I'd forgotten about that.

n/t

[zulchzulu]

11. He probably banged a few chicks in Europe while dating Hillary

[Catherine Vincent]

12. What a lovely post from an Obama supporter. nt