New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof says ($link) that Barack Obama is qualified to lead nation's foreign policy because he was a Jakarta "street kid" for 4 years, and is charmed to learn that the candidate regards the sound of the Arabic call to prayer "one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset." No kidding.In some respects, Mr. Obama is far more experienced than other presidential candidates. [....]In foreign policy as well, Mr. Obama would bring to the White House an important experience that most other candidates lack: he has actually lived abroad. He spent four years as a child in Indonesia and attended schools in the Indonesian language, which he still speaks."I was a little Jakarta street kid," he said in a wide-ranging interview in his office (excerpts are on my blog, www.nytimes.com/ontheground). He once got in trouble for making faces during Koran study classes in his elementary school, but a president is less likely to stereotype...(Read Full Post)