Republican presidential candidate John McCain has mocked rival Barack Obama's high-profile international tour, as the Democrat argued in London that President George Bush and McCain were shifting towards his policy on Iraq and Afghanistan.
Mr McCain virtually dared Mr Obama to make the trip during earlier campaigning, claiming that his rival was naive on foreign policy and national security and pointing out that the Illinois Democrat wanted to withdraw troops from Iraq within 16 months of his presidency.
k a swipe at his rival in his weekly radio address on Saturday, saying: "With all the breathless coverage from abroad, and with Senator Obama now addressing his speeches to the people of the world, I'm starting to feel a little left out. Maybe you are too."

LONDON - The talk of French intellectuals and Iraqi policy makers, Israeli settlers and British broadcasters, "Obama" dominated the world's tongues and its simple, percussive syllables sounded at home rolling off each of them.
Yet during his eight-day, eight-country tour through the Middle East and Europe that ended yesterday, Senator Barack Obama, whose presidential candidacy has generated not only curiosity abroad but something of a global constituency, has come to represent different things across languages, cultures, and national borders.
nternational affairs. "You see Obama and you see America as a young country. Isn't it about bloody time it has young and diverse leadership?"

Travel agents gull tourists into trips like the one Barack Obama just took; nine countries in nine days; each stop just long enough to snap a few pictures, ask a question or two and lose your luggage or your composure. Obama's gaffe-free jaunt suggests he has two traits tourists and presidents need: discipline and an iron constitution.
As the press waited to pounce on any rookie errors, Obama's grizzled opponent was stateside blithely telling all who'd listen that our first war after 9/11 was Iraq — that would be Afghanistan, actually — that the "surge" inspired the so-called Anbar Awakening — Anbar was first by about six months — and that Iraq borders Pakistan (nope).
crossing the Delaware.

By Mike Dorning | Chicago Tribune correspondent LONDON - Barack Obama's audacious nine-day foreign tour offered a cascade of vivid images and a powerful speech that went a long way toward encouraging an international audience and a domestic one to envision this relative political newcomer in the role of president.
The sea of 200,000 people in a Berlin park cheering Obama's call for a strengthened Atlantic alliance, prominently featured on television at home, showcased his capacity to act as a messenger for America and evoked two of the most forceful presidential spokesmen for the United States in the Cold War: John Kennedy and Ronald Reagan.
with the press in Jordan in a majestic setting among ancient ruins that fit the visual style of the Bush White House's grand media events.

LONDON (AP) - Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama brushed aside Republican criticism of his overseas trip on Saturday and stood outside the famed 10 Downing Street to say that both President Bush and Sen. John McCain were moving his way on the key issues of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Hours before flying home, Obama also suggested his poll numbers might dip in the coming days, adding: "We have been out of the country for a week. People are worried about gas prices and home foreclosures."
media: "With all the breathless coverage from abroad, and with Sen. Obama now addressing his speeches to the people of the world, I'm starting to feel a little left out. Maybe you are, too."

Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) scraps plans to visit wounded US troops in Germany after Pentagon says the visit would be considered a campaign event.

Miguel Villagran/AP By JEFF ZELENY and NICHOLAS KULISH BERLIN - Senator Barack Obama spoke at the Tiergarten in Berlin on Thursday. More Photos >
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