So what are your foreign policy credentials?

[undeterred]

I stayed at a youth hostel in Amsterdam's red light district, where I also went to needle park and the Van Gogh Museum, so I should be Ambassador to the Netherlands. I have also planted tulips.

[cemaphonic]

1. I worked for a couple summers at NATO headquarters.

I think I'm damn near overqualified to be Secretary of State.

[philosophie_en_rose]

2. I've lived in several foreign countries.

I have also observed Canadians in their natural habitat - the Tim Hortons. Sign me up for Ambassador to Canada.

[skygazer]

3. I once watched a movie with subtitles

And I live in a culturally diverse area.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. I have had a passport since 1970.

I have actually been to several foreign countries.
I live in a state that shares a border with a foreign country.
Sometimes I watch movies with subtitles.
All of my ancestors came from foreign countries.
One of my cats is part Siamese.

[BlueIris]

5. I read blogs. A lot. What? I can't get a V.P. nom for that? nt

[hvn_nbr_2]

6. I've been to Taco Bell. I know all about Spain and Mexico.

I've made snowmen--I know all about Canada, Siberia, and Scandinavia.

[undeterred]

39. Which hemisphere are Spanin and Mexico in?

[Inchworm]

7. I have smelled like a moose

:yoiks:

[WinkyDink]

8. I have done all of those, as well! We'll share the office!

[Xipe Totec]

9. Related by marriage to a former Belgian Ambassador to Mexico

Have a personal friend in the French Ministry of Industry

Met and shook hands with Brigadier-General Jean-Loup Chrétien (French astronaut, Hero of the Soviet Union)

Have personal friendship with a Georgian banking executive.

Other than that, I don't remember anymore.

[KitchenWitch]

10. I have visited Canada on several occasions.

[malta blue]

11. sorry my friend, I am the Ambassador to the Netherlands.....

I too stayed at a youth hostel in which I found a glass pipe. I brought the glass pipe back to the US and 4 years later met the original owners of said pipe at a random party in upstate NY.

[SoxFan]

12. I know a good Ethiopian restaurant

[madinmaryland]

13. My friend, I've told the brazilian joke a brazillion times, so I'll be

the Ambassador to Brazil.

Donald Rumsfeld is giving the president his daily briefing. He concludes by saying: "Yesterday, 3 Brazilian soldiers were killed."

"OH NO!" the President exclaims. "That's terrible!"

His staff sits stunned at this display of emotion, nervously watching as the President sits, head in hands.

Finally, the President looks up and asks, "How many is a brazillion?"

:evilgrin:

[TrogL]

14. I've been in dozens of countries

I can pronounce German, French, Italian, Hebrew, Russian, Norwegian, Swedish and Slovenian.

I've met three Prime Ministers and had an hour-long meeting with the Deputy Prime Minister.

[Arugula Latte]

15. I've been to several countries in Europe + Mexico, Peru, Costa Rica, and Japan and

I've been eating Thai food since the '80s. Oh, and I speak Spanish.

[ghostsofgiants]

16. I do really well in my international relations courses.

:thumbsup:

[Critters2]

17. I went to France, Belgium and England with my HS French club.

I think that makes it obvious.

I've also been to Zimbabwe, to visit a friend who was a missionary and tour mission sites. I still don't get why I wasn't included in the Mugabe/Tsvangirai negotiations.

[Aristus]

18. I visited Jim Morrison's grave in Paris.

I could SO be a diplomat based solely on that one thing. ;-)

[undeterred]

25. That is outrageous.

Why is he buried in Paris? He should be a diplomat.

[AlCzervik]

19. I love Thai food.

[CharmCity]

20. I've seen many foreign leaders on tv

[lightningandsnow]

21. I like Japanese pop music.

And Palestinian hip-hop.

[KamaAina]

22. There's a royal palace in the middle of my city

which was the capital of an independent country until its government was overthrown by a group of American expat sugar planters, backed by U.S. Marines, in 1893.



(yes, it does look a lot like the HQ of Hawaii Five-O. :-) )

[Mutley]

23. I work with a lot of Turks and Jordanians.

Does that work?

[femmocrat]

24. I used to have a penpal in Canada.

I was only in the 6th grade, but he had a Chinese surname!

[CharmCity]

26. Everything I own was made in China.

[undeterred]

34. Shopping at Walmart does not an ambassador make.

We would have too many ambassadors.

[littlebit]

27. I delivered a few loads of auto parts to

Windsor Ontario once.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

28. I listen to Turkish

French, German, Greek, etc music CD's at work.
Can't understand a word, but is that a barrier to Sec of State?

[Lydia Leftcoast]

29. I'm a foreign language buff, have had a passport since 1967, have lived in

Japan, and have been back there 12 times since.

I am OVER-QUALIFIED to be ambassador to Japan, although if I had joined the Foreign Service (as I seriously tried to in the late 1970s), they probably would have sent me to Uruguay or Mauritania, judging from the fact that my interviewer, who had a degree in Latin American Studies and spoke Spanish and Portuguese had, at that point, been posted to Vietnam and the Congo.

[alarimer]

30. I live in Texas, which is next to Mexico.

And I have actually been there. SO I am more qualified than Palin, since she has only SEEN Russia from her house.

[undeterred]

36. Did you ever cross the border?

I'm sure she must have swum across the Bering Straits in whale skin blubber on a spy mission...

[Left Is Write]

31. I can talk like a pirate.

[likesmountains 52]

32. My elementary school had a globe..

[undeterred]

37. Well you could have been in the Miss Teen America pageant,

at least. Most of those poor girls had no maps.

[east texas lib]

33. I own a copy of Kilroy Was Here by Styx...

Domo arigato Mr. Roboto!:-)

[LibertyLover]

35. Let's see -

I lived in Mexico for 8 weeks one summer; I've been to Europe, Africa and Asia; I speak some Spanish and German; I work at International Finance Corporation, part of The World Bank Group, so I work with people from all over the world; I met and spoke with the prime minister of Timor Leste; my daughter is adopted from China, and the best credential? - I like Czech pilsner beer!

[mwooldri]

38. British ex-pat here, aspiring dual national. nt

[petronius]

40. I have been to Iceland, which is one letter off from Ireland

So, I should be ambassador to Iceland, Ireland, and all other countries which start with 'I'. Also, I saw Greenland on the way to Iceland, so I am qualified to deal with all countries with any sort of significant green land cover...

[Withywindle]

41. I have a Brazilian qualifications

I own copies of Michael Moore's 'Dude, Where's My Country,' a couple Harry Potter books, and the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy in Portuguese.

I too have stayed in a youth hostel in the red light district of Amsterdam. Met someone a year or two later who'd been there just a week after us, and she said a junkie died in the bathroom during the night. The cops carried the body bag out right past everybody having breakfast.

I've eaten haggis.

I've seen Kabul from the air.

I've lived with a half-Canadian whose father looks a lot like Gordon Lightfoot.

I pressured a friend to make out with the James Joyce statue in Dublin for a photo op.

I've watched Japanese tentacle porn.

I have a Seven African Powers candle.

I've ridden an elephant.

I make a mean guacamole.

I can use chopsticks.


I guess I'm OVERqualified.

[undeterred]

45. You are overqualified, so you can be Ambassador General.

I don't know what the Japanese tentacle Porn thing is.

[Lil Missy]

42. I like Japanese food and I took French in college.

[snailly]

43. Just last week I thought about Canadia for a minute

Then I went to Walmart and thought about China.
I think I'm ready to be the leader of the free world.

[Radical Activist]

44. I've dated a number of women with at least one parent from a foreign country.

Including the Philippines, France, India, Japan and Canada. So, I'm pretty much an expert diplomat.

[patomime]

46. I can see......

Russian people!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Orrex]

47. I wore a high-quality ape mask to my high school's Halloween dance

And the exchange student from Belgium thought that it was my real face and that I'd been horribly burned.

I'll stack that against Palin's "I can seez Russia frum heer" credentials.

[Shiver]

48. Well...

-I used to watch Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? all the time.

-I've never been to another country, but I've often wanted to go to a few. You know, the cooler ones.

-My ancestors were among the people who founded Quebec.

-I've eaten lutefisk. And haggis.

-I did a report on Morocco in fifth grade.

-I work at a grocery store with an "International Foods" section.

-My old roommate was a foreign exchange student from Italy, originally from Indonesia.

-I used to live down the street from thee Greek restaurants.

-I hate Grover Norquist. That has nothing to do with foreign policy, but I thought I'd throw it out there. Can't hurt, right?

-I have a lot of Legos, which makes me an expert on Denmark and the.. uh... Denmarkian people

-I've dated girls from Japan, Australia, Germany, Norway, Columbia, Egypt and Canada. So I've been to all seven continents, through proxies.

[jeff30997]

49. I've been in Florida and New England a couple of times...

Therefore I'm qualified to be Canada's Ambassador to the U.S.(oh wait,I forgot that we have higher

standards over here) :P

[Giant Robot]

50. There is this absolutely amazing Mexican restaurant

around the corner from me. I go there as often as it is affordable.

I like anime.

I buy Star Wars toys which were most likely made in China.

Yay! I win. Me have foreign policy experernence!

[bikebloke]

51. I've tromped upon 5 continents.

It'll be 6 after next month. I worked for four years in Israel on a kibbutz and moshav, so I can be ambassador to any commie country. Having biked New Zealand and Australia, I'm now an honourary citizen, thus eligible to be Prime Minister in either country (It's up to me. The job's mine if I want it)

[applegrove]

52. I & all my classmates used to take a shortcut to high school through

the National Defence Building in Ottawa.

[BarenakedLady]

53. I went to Europe once.

[dropkickpa]

54. 80% of the people I work with are not american

Seccy of State here I come!

[sarge43]

55. Stationed in England and Germany for six years

Grandfather was Canadian. If I drive up to the top of Mt Washington, I can see Canada. A couple of months temporary duty in the Sahara Desert. Spent an afternoon in Tijuana.

I'd say I'm more than qualified for Sec of State.

[MrScorpio]

56. Here are mine:

I've been to the negotiation building in Pammunjon Korea



I've made successful deals in the Philippines and Okinawa



I worked in the Pentagon for 7 1/2 years



and once a month for four years I shuttled between Germany, France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, wheeling and dealing



I rock!

On edit: I've been to Canada on numerous occasions

[mentalsolstice]

57. When I lived in Ft. Lauderdale, I could see Cuba from my house.

So I could be ambassador to Cuba, or queen of Gitmo Bay.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

58. I've been to Europe once and India four times.