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12-28-2007, 06:53 PM
ABC News' Sunlen Miller Reports: Six days from the Iowa caucuses and the battle over experience has not subsided.
Barack Obama insists his experiences traveling and having family living overseas brings more to the table than, let's say, the job of a former first lady.
"It's that experience, that understanding, not just of what world leaders I went and talked to in the ambassadors house I had tea with, but understanding the lives of the people like my grandmother who lives in a tiny hut in Africa," Obama, D-Ill., told a crowd of would-be voters in Coralville, Iowa, on Friday.
The veiled shot at Senator Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., couldn't be more succinct as he argued that her experience level as a first lady doesn't outshine his as a world traveler.
Obama went on to argue that this difference led him to make judgment about the Iraq war.
"That's the experience that helped inform my opposition to the war in Iraq, that's the kind of experience that's rooted in the real lives of the American people," he said.
More (http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2007/12/obamas-cup-of-t.html)
Barack Obama insists his experiences traveling and having family living overseas brings more to the table than, let's say, the job of a former first lady.
"It's that experience, that understanding, not just of what world leaders I went and talked to in the ambassadors house I had tea with, but understanding the lives of the people like my grandmother who lives in a tiny hut in Africa," Obama, D-Ill., told a crowd of would-be voters in Coralville, Iowa, on Friday.
The veiled shot at Senator Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., couldn't be more succinct as he argued that her experience level as a first lady doesn't outshine his as a world traveler.
Obama went on to argue that this difference led him to make judgment about the Iraq war.
"That's the experience that helped inform my opposition to the war in Iraq, that's the kind of experience that's rooted in the real lives of the American people," he said.
More (http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2007/12/obamas-cup-of-t.html)