Posted on 07/18/2008 5:04:08 PM PDT by mojito
Barack Obama’s advisers insist his coming trip abroad is not a campaign swing. Even so, the high-profile journey has all the trappings of a rock-star tour.
The Illinois senator’s trip to Europe and the Middle East has generated so much interest that all three TV network news anchors are planning to accompany the candidate.
Foreign media have reported daily on the impending visit. And the campaign revealed Friday that Obama intends to meet with top U.S. allies.
Obama is surely looking to burnish his foreign policy credentials overseas — but on the back end of it, his superstar persona might get the biggest boost.
“What you’re about to see is enormous publicity,” Democratic strategist Susan Estrich said. “He’s got three anchors coming with him. He’s got the glitterati of the press corps.”
With his visit, the presumptive Democratic nominee is recreating the kind of public whirlwind that he enjoyed at the height of the Democratic primary — only on a global scale.
When John McCain made a similar trip overseas in March, he was accompanied by a few dozen members of the U.S. media. No network anchors made the journey.
(Excerpt) Read more at elections.foxnews.com ...
Our media are more fawning and less objective than Pravda was at the height of the Cold War. And they are just as ideologically driven.
And no, I don't think I'm exaggerating.
how the hell else will be elected, if they do that?
Personally, I find Senator Obama to be rather DULL.
Pro 16:18 - Pride [goeth] before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
Wonder if the teleprompter flew on the same plane..
I assume the barf alert is implied in the title.
“I’ve taken many congressional delegations overseas — You’ll learn more about a country by watching the History Channel than you will doing this,” Democratic strategist Bob Beckel told FOX News.
Bob Beckel occasionally veers into a little objectivity.
I am so sick of hearing about obama. Gore and Kerry were popular with the Euros too.
If he loses in in November, and I think he will, he is going to crash and burn hard. The MSM is going to use every tactic they can to blame a racist America falling for the GOP’s lies. They will never see that Obama was just an inferior candidate.
I think the McCain camp should strike some body-blows to Barry's campaign while out of the country that would force him to comment, retract, and flip and use the news cycles to best advantage. If Barry also trods upon his dobber while out-of-country all the better.
Finally, if he "learns" about how successful the US military has been in Iraq he will lose the left.
This should be fun!
Added keyword tigerbeat.
Yep...if he steps on his foreskin over there, it ain't gonna get missed -- it may get underreported, but it won't get missed.
I was thinking the same thing.
The Law of Gravity...what goes up, must come down.
I agree with you. I don’t think he’s going to win in November no matter how hard the MSM push him. He’s an empty suit. I also agree that they’ll blame it on racism. I for one am sick of being called a racist because I won’t vote for him. Every black a know is voting for him because he’s black. They haven’t a clue as to what he stands for. If he said that he’d enslave all of them again, they’d still vote for him because he’s black. Now, who’s the racist? If I voted for McCain because he’s white, I’d be called a racist.Doesn’t it hold then, logially, that if you vote for a man because he’s the same race as you are that you are a racist?
The Britney Spears of politics.
Truer words were never spoken. Obviously, this crucial portion of the Bible was somehow skipped by obammy's pastor in favor of his famous "GD America speech".
“I think the hype about Europe hating us is either overblown or not true at all.”
I don’t know whether it was just politeness, but on my trips to Europe I have had the very definite sense that Americans in general were well liked by the average citizen.
Now their media is another story, and they are the ones doing the talking.
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