clean passport

campos is right, and his tone of wit's end exasperation is spot on.  while some may view it as a haughty, elitist notion that a would-be president of the usa should have at least a modicum of international travel experience, if not actual time spent living in one or more other cultures, this is in fact a decidedly reasonable expectation to have for one who would be the commander of the most potent military force and vastest empire in world history, not to mention the nation's chief negotiator in affairs with other nations and international institutions.  while international experience shouldn't be an express prerequisite for holding the office of president or vice president, common sense pretty much dictates that you'd want the folks holding those offices to have some first-hand experience of other cultures.  besides, we need only point to the current president's sparse international travel prior to assuming the most powerful office in the world to reinforce this point.  if my recollection is right, I believe President Bush had traveled outside of the United States two times prior to becoming president in 2000, one or both of which having been trips to Mexico, a foreign country bordering the state he governed.  And needless to say, I'm sure those jaunts south of the border focused a bit more on Jose Cuervo and Girls Gone Wild than they did on cultural exchange, etc.  The paltriness of Bush's international experience is brought home when one remembers that this is the grandson of a powerful United States Senator and the son of a man who was at one time head of the CIA, vice president, and president.