Paul Ryan Falsely Claims that He Has More Foreign Policy Experience than Obama

[Tx4obama]

Paul Ryan Falsely Claims that He Has More Foreign Policy Experience than Obama

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Paul Ryan claimed today that he has more foreign policy experience that President Obama had in 2008, but a look at the congressional committees that each served on tells a vastly different story.

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Paul Ryan claimed that voting for the invasion of Iraq based on the WMD gives him more foreign policy experience than Barack Obama had before he took office, but a look at the respective congressional committee assignments of Obama and Ryan tells a vastly different story.

When Barack Obama was in the Senate, he served on the Foreign Relations, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, and as s chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee’s Subcommittee on European Affairs. During roughly the same period in the House, Paul Ryan served on the House Committee on Budget, House Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Social Security, Joint Economic Committee, and the Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures. Paul Ryan did not serve on a single foreign policy committee or subcommittee while Obama was in the Senate.

What is most troubling is that everything Paul Ryan listed as foreign policy experience is related to going to war, and that he seems to have taken the wrong lesson from those experiences. Ryan actually listed voting for a war based on a lie as a good thing. Ryan didn’t discuss diplomacy, treaties, or any international agreements that he voted on. To Paul Ryan foreign policy equals war, and this little insight into the hidden corner of his neo-con mind should give voters pause.

The fact of the matter is that based on congressional training alone, Barack Obama was more prepared to deal with foreign policy questions when he was elected in 2008 than Paul Ryan is in 2012.

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Video, transcript and full article here: http://www.politicususa.com/lyin-paul-ryan-claims-voting-wmds-iraq.html

[polichick]

1. There he goes again!

[LeftofObama]

2. ROFLMAO!

Time to paraphrase Lloyd Benson:

'I knew Barack Obama, Barack Obama was a friend of mine. Congressman, you're no Barack Obama!'

[GallopingGhost]

3. What's even scarier is that the same people

who screamed the loudest in 2008 about President Obama's supposed lack of foreign policy experience won't make a peep about Ryan's lack of it and will vote to have this young war-hungry radical a heartbeat away from the Presidency.

[frazzled]

4. One more qualification Obama had that Ryan lacks

He majored at Columbia University in Political Science, with a concentration in International Relations.

[fbguy_144]

5. he should be a comedian

honestly

[Kurovski]

6. "LYIN' RYAN"

Yep, that's the one.

[TroyD]

7. Is there anything Romney/Ryan won't lie about? n/t

[BarbaRosa]

8. Paul Ryan Falsely Claims

yup

[TroyD]

9. Being President for nearly 4 years doesn't give Obama foreign policy experience?

Journalists need to ask this every time Romney or Ryan bring up foreign policy experience.

Ask them whether either of them has more foreign policy experience than some who has actually been President for the past 4 years.

[Tx4obama]

14. Please reread the OP excerpt. First paragraph says 'foreign policy experience Obama had in 2008' n/t

[Cracklin Charlie]

10. What kind of idiot would try.

would even try to make this ridiculous claim?

The very idea that this lightweight has more foreign policy experience than ANY President is laughable.

[GoCubsGo]

11. An idiot who is also a pathological liar.

There are two of those on the ticket. I'm trying to decide which is the bigger liar, and right now, it looks like Ryan by a hair.

[Tx4obama]

12. Please reread the OP excerpt. First paragraph says 'foreign policy experience Obama had in 2008' n/t

[renegade000]

13. i dare him to claim more foreign policy experience than biden

[Iceberg Louie]

15. #paulryanfalselyclaims

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