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November 20, 2007
Posted: 04:55 PM ET
DES MOINES, Iowa (CNN) – Just one day after Democratic hopeful Barack Obama said he felt his strongest foreign relations experience came from spending four years overseas as a child, rival Hillary Clinton fired back—and then John Edwards took aim at her. And for good measure, Sen. Joe Biden chipped in with his own two cents on the matter. "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," Clinton said. "I think we need a President with more experience than that." On Monday, Obama told an Iowa audience, "Probably the strongest experience I have in foreign relations is the fact that I spent four years living overseas when I was a child in Asia—Southeast Asia." According to the campaign, Obama was six years old when he moved to Indonesia in 1967, and stayed until he was 10. Obama said his time there and the fact that his father is from Kenya gives him the knowledge "of how ordinary people in these other countries live." In her comments, Clinton also said she traveled the globe both as first lady and as a senator and that she knows many world leaders "personally." But as of Tuesday afternoon, fellow Democratic contender John Edwards is also in the mix. His campaign took issue with Clinton's response. Edwards’ spokesman Chris Kofinis released a "definition" of the term "mudslinging," calling it "the use of insults and accusations, esp. unjust ones, with the aim of damaging the reputation of an opponent." "As in: Hillary Clinton said about Barack Obama, ‘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,’" Kofinis said. He added, "Now we know what Senator Clinton meant when she talked about 'throwing mud' in the last debate. Like so many other things, when it comes to mud, Hillary Clinton says one thing and throws another." Biden, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, also joined the fray Tuesday afternoon when asked what he thought of Obama's comments. "I think he's right," Biden said smiling. "That is his strongest [foreign policy] credential." Related: Obama cites childhood in helping shape world view – CNN Iowa Producer Chris Welch Filed under: Barack Obama Hillary Clinton Iowa John Edwards
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