Posted on 07/23/2008 9:06:08 PM PDT by maccaca
As the US Democratic Presidential candidate, Barack Obama has drawn wide attention in the United States and elsewhere in the world from his first-ever overseas tour. During his ongoing trip, he has not been taken as an ordinary US Senator in a "routine" visit but is treated as a promising presidential hopeful. Special coverages filed by his accompanying reporters from mainstream US media organs on the great, high-profile reception he was accorded amid tight security arranged by the Afghanistan government is just an indisputable proof.
Why should Senator Obama, who is now so busy and engrossed with his presidential race, squeezed time of his packed schedule for an overseas trip? It is owed to his two weak factors, or rather the "two soft ribs" exposed during his past half-year race, which were subjected to incessant rebuttals by his Republican rival.
Obama's second "soft rib" is his lack of experience on the international exchanges arena and with foreign affairs as a Senator for the first time. Obama once claimed his readiness to talk to leaders of Cuba, Iran and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), and it posed another evidence his Republican opponents got against him and accused him of being "naive in diplomacy". The foreign policy of multilateralism he has opted appeases to and delights the European allies, which have suffered a great deal from the American uni-polarity, but Israel however does not feel somewhat at ease. For this reason, he will travel especially to Jordan and Israel after his Iraq visit to make the security guarantee in a hope of winning more votes from American Jews back home.
Spending 12 minutes at the wailing wall, and 15 mins in Afghanistan shaking hands and posing for pics playing fake basketball isn’t going to give Obama any more experience than he has now.
What a fraud this trip is, and those that glorify it.
The Communists are aware of all of these type of tricks. Even photo manipulation.
Damn, that’s gonna leave a mark!
He’s not a big enough commie yet for the Red Chinese. Poor little Barry is not seasoned enough in “community organizing”.
Loved this line:
He can only indulge in empty talk at home but does not go to heed opinions of US servicemen and officers at battlefields. So, it is a matter of urgency for him to have an “interning” in the military and security realm.
So Obama gained a total of 27 minutes in 2 countries?
Shouldn’t he be in the Guinness Book of World Idiots in the “travel” category?
We must forgive the Chinese because, not being raised in a Christian culture, they will not appreciate the significance of Obama’s upcoming walk across the Sea of Galilee.
I guess Obama figured the foreigners would be pushovers for his charisma and charm. On faz.net, the German newspaper had a video interviewing various citizens about Obama’s upcoming speech. I understood one man who responded in English that Obama was trying to copy Kennedy but “Obama’s no Kennedy” he said. The others spoke in German but my husband speaks German fluently and he said not one person indicated the least enthusiasm about the speech. Wonder who his warm-up act is going to be?
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