[mondoreb]

Obama and the MSM take a trip overseas. Obama gets great press from a fawning MSM that pretends it's really reporting real news--really. On this trip, the MSM is the Obama campaign's PR department.

[stockstrader]

We can thank John McCain for the "Mystery Tour".

When McCain highlighted the fact that Obama had not been to Iraq since the surge began--he gave Obama a golden opportunity to not only FIX that problem, but also make a huge, major media event of his "Mystery Tour".

McCain should have waited until the first debate to tell Obama, "You don't know what you're talking about, you haven't even been to Iraq since the successful surge began"!!

It would have had a huge effect--and would have been a GREAT 'debate moment'--that would have embarrassed Obama on a national stage (with the largest number of Americans watching).

Instead, McCain blew it by giving him a lot of time to FIX that problem and turn it into a big positive.

[Grampa Dave]

"After a week of intense media foreplay, Obama has finally embarked on his magical mystery tour. As he boarded the plane that took him on the first leg of his anxiously awaited Middle East and European tour, a pair of uniformed Air Force officers saluted simultaneously, as they do each time President Bush boards Air Force One."

I would have been up for at least a Captain's Mast and maybe a court martial hearing if I had been told to salute this POS.