Barack Obama said: “Probably the strongest experience I have in foreign relations is the fact I spent four years overseas when I was a child in Southeast Asia”. Senator Clinton responded:

I have traveled the world on behalf of our country — first in the White House with my husband and now as a Senator. I’ve met with countless world leaders and know many of them personally. I went to Beijing in 1995 and stood up to the Chinese government on human rights and women’s rights. I have fought for our men and women in uniform to make sure they have the equipment they need in battle and are treated with dignity when they return home.

I believe I have the right kind of experience to be the next President. With a war and a tough economy, we need a President ready on Day One…

Now voters will judge whether living in a foreign country at the age of 10 prepares one to face the big, complex international challenges the next President will face. I think we need a President with more experience than that. Someone the rest of the world knows, looks up to, and has confidence in. I don’t think this is the time for on the job training…

Was this incident, wherein Mrs. Clinton “responded appropriately as the first lady of the United States,” one of the things that constituted her own “on the job training” that she now boasts of having gotten over the last 15 years?

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