Foreign Policy Experience? She has none.

"It was her coming that helped. But she had absolutely no role in the dirty work of negotiations...This had nothing to do with her competence." The Chicago Tribune delves into Clinton's dubious claims of foreign policy experience and finds not only that she has little to none, but that she is basically lying about what she's accomplished. "Pressed in a CNN interview this week for specific examples of foreign policy experience that has prepared her for an international crisis, Clinton claimed that she 'helped to bring peace' to Northern Ireland and negotiated with Macedonia to open up its border to refugees from Kosovo."

Let's take 'em one by one. Regarding Ireland, historian Tim Pat Coogan refers to Clinton's role as "part of the stage effects, the optics, and Nobel Peace Prize winner Lord Trimble today called Clinton's claims "silly": "I don’t want to rain on the thing for her but being a cheerleader for something is slightly different from being a principal player." The Telegraph digs up coverage of the one meeting Clinton attended in Belfast, and it wasn't exceptionally hard-hitting. In fact, it was a photo-op. "Conversation 'seemed a little bit stilted, a little prepared at times' and Mrs Clinton admired a stainless steel tea pot, which was duly given to her, for keeping the brew 'so nice and hot'." The Kitchen Debate, it wasn't.

Regarding Macedonia and Kosovo, that border was opened the day before Senator Clinton arrived. Update: The picture above is from Clinton's Kosovo trip. As you can see, part of her delicate negotiations to get this already-open border opened involved singing with Chelsea, Sheryl Crow, and some poor military officials forced to humor the wife of the Commander in Chief.

As TPM's Josh Marshall aptly summed up, "Let's get real and admit that Hillary Clinton is getting the free ride of all free rides on her repeated invocations of foreign policy experience."