How many of you hold a passport or have held one in the past?

Question

and for the record i have one as do both my kids

Answer 1

I have one .. Had one since I got out of the Military. I am curious as to what the issue is?

I know she has been to Germany and Kuwait to visit the AK National Guard and other Troops. And she didn't insist on having an entourage of reporters and cameras with her.

I'm not sure what a passport has to do with foreign policy. Obama said he has foreign policy experience because he spent two weeks in Pakistan. I don't get the connection.

Answer 2

I just got one a couple years ago because it became mandatory if you want to go out of the country and be able to get back home!!  Before then I used my Birth certificate and drivers license.

She has had no reason to go out of the country thus far.  I am sure she will get one, actually a Special one but it should not be an issue.

Answer 3

10+ years now, since I became a volunteer for Peace Trees Vietnam.

Answer 4

Because she is running for vice president and has left this country once. that is the huge issue

Answer 5

I have one with over 20 stamps in it.  You expect a VP to know something about international affairs aside from living 300 miles from Russia.

Answer 6

Had one for thirty years now, and lived four years of my life overseas.

As a governor, a person deals with foreign governments to secure favorable trade deals for your state.  This is a fact in Oregon and Washington, and I doubt it's any different with Alaska.

Obama's foreign policy experience is. . . .?

Answer 7

I've had one for over 25 years.  Guess I'm in the 24% then.  Palin is a tool, best choice McCain could have made to show how truly inept he is.

Answer 8

I don't have one.

Answer 9

I have one.

Answer 10

I actually got my very first passport in 2005 and have been to Europe and South America several times - I have so many stamps, I think that I may need to get additional pages...If Palin just got her passport in 2007, where has she been?

Answer 11

Personally I am on my second one in my life time (and am 27).

I don't know about anyone else... but I would like my leaders to have at least been out of the country once... Now don't get me wrong I am for Palin... and I found out that she had visited troops in the middle east and in germany the day McCain chose her.... But I did have a problem not knowing if (or knowing there was a lack of) Obama had traveled to at least see the troops....

ADD: A.M. it is really easy to bungle up names of countries and cities.... even reporters do it on a regular basis... so it's not just the Pres. that does that... :/ all you can do is try and learn how to pronounce it properly and even the locals of that area will appreciate that...

Answer 12

I was amazed that one of the Democratic strategists thought it surprising that a person would never have left the US in 43 years (when Palin travelled to Kuwait).  I think it was just a toss out comment to illustrate her lack of experience, but did she really think that comment would connect with the average voter?  

I've never had a passport, but that's only because one isn't needed if you're outside the country on military orders.  It isn't uncommon for people to travel overseas for one reason or another, but I don't think it's terribly uncommon to NOT have traveled outside the country.

Answer 13

I have one, my kids have one, my husband has one and we have used them.

Answer 14

You shouldn't knock the benefits of foreign travel.  The experience of visiting and living in other countries is very educational.  Opens many small minds to see the pluses and minuses of the rest of the world.

I have a stack of my old passports and my children had passports from the age of three months.

With her family responsibilities I am sure travel was way down on her list.

Answer 15

I have one.  She doesn't?  News to me.  I don't care.

Answer 16

I just got a passport this year and am a little older than Palin.  However, I know quite a bit about other countries especially Europe because I deal with people from Europe and India every day at work.  

Palin has negotiated deals with foreign companies and countries in her work.  Obama's international experience consists of visiting his grandmother in Kenya and his media circus tour.

HOMEGIRL:  Foreign travel can be very educational but when did it become a prerequisite for being vice president?  Many of our best presidents would have been disqualified if that was the case.

Answer 17

I've had a passport since 1994.

Answer 18

Probably because she is going to have to do a lot of world-wide travel. Whenever I go abroad, I am always horrified by what inexperienced American tourists do and say. It's embarrassing...they make this country look like a nation of bumpkins. (Just look at how many names GWB mangled in his career!)