The July 25 front-page photo of Barack Obama, as he pandered to 200000 people in Berlin, was really overshadowed by The Courant's headline "His Biggest

By LARRY EICHEL Barack Obama has come home from overseas. There are still 100 days left to go. The polls remain close. And the contrast in political imagery

WHILE Barack Obama was wowing the crowds in Berlin, his Republican opponent was at Schmidt’s Restaurant and Sausage Haus in Columbus, Ohio, trying to live up to its slogan about making “the best of the Wurst”.
Trying to get a little love and attention seemed a stubbornly hopeless task for John McCain, the Vietnam war hero who, only a few months ago, had been politely welcomed in the same capitals as Obama, but without the mania.
ce of milk while Obama was discussing the future of the Middle East with Israeli and Palestinian leaders.

By Andrea Hopkins CINCINNATI (Reuters) - Ohio sales manager Lucas Seltzer isn't thrilled that Barack Obama is overseas talking to foreigners instead of at home speaking to Americans, but he understands the politics behind the Democratic presidential candidate's high-profile international trip.
"I would rather see Obama running around this country talking about his issues than in Iraq talking to prime ministers about foreign policy," said Seltzer, 33.
t ... yesterday was 'How dare you?'" said Marcus Laubli, a Swiss-American who works in a coffee shop in Scottsdale, Arizona. Continued...

Personally, I can't wait for Barack Obama to be president of the United States. I'm sick of this weather.
Oh sure, cynics will scoff and say Barack Obama cannot be expected to part the clouds and bring sunshine to the lives of the world's sodden masses. But we, the world's sodden masses, turn our imploring eyes to the man with the basso profondo and elegant profile. And we see Hope.
esence and ease a nation's existential doubts. "Are we just not important enough or exciting enough for Barack Obama? Are we less sexy to him than some puffed-up Brits? Those questions are on the minds of Canadians ..."

Too bad for Barack Obama, a thousand commentators said yesterday, that all those Germans can't vote in the U.S. election. The adulatory throng that cheered him in Berlin's Tiergarten park demonstrated vividly how Obama's message resonates outside his own country. Europeans are at least as eager as Americans for regime change in the U.S. - and for the hope that is the core of Obama's appeal.
But back home the news was different: Republican John McCain continues to close the gap in voter support, pollsters say. As the endless presidential process grinds on, U.S. voters are proving to be a tougher audience than those Berliners.
nd correctly noted that Obama, having sewed

Few could argue against the conclusion that Barack Obama's visit to Afghanistan and Iraq, which produced great pictures, and his two days in Jordan and Israel, when he skillfully navigated the sensitivities of Middle East politics, were a great success for his campaign.
Barack Obama arrives in London on the final leg of his world tour
ses and pronouncements and no specifics before 200,000 adoring Germans I can't see. Yes, most Americans want their country to be liked or at least tolerated again but Obama could have achieved that with a much less ambitious event.

by FOXNews.com John McCain reacts to applause at the LIVESTRONG Summit in Columbus, Ohio, Thursday. (AP Photo) Nobody really expected this to be John

Carolyn Kaster/AP John McCain in Columbus, Ohio, with small-business leaders, including Duane Hickerson, partner and founder of Relay Gear.

While Barack Obama took a premature victory lap today in the heart of Berlin, proclaiming himself a "citizen of the world," John McCain continued to make his case to the American citizens who will decide this election.
And of course there's John at Powerline reviewing the speech and observing:
arack Obama, whose father is from Kenya and who attended school in Indonesia, now appears before a crowd of 200,000 cheering Germans in Berlin to proclaim himself a "citizen of the world." It makes you wonder whether he's running for president of America or secretary general of the United Nations, and it is reminiscent of Senator Kerry's ill-fated 2004 debate pledge to subject American policies to a "global test."

White House hopeful Barack Obama fired back at Republican foe John McCain in a new row over Iraq, as his Europe and Middle East tour Friday took him to France, after a massive campaign event in Berlin.
As rave reviews greeted his soaring speech on mending transatlantic ties before 200,000 people on Thursday, the Democratic White House nominee was due in Paris for talks with French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
somehow I'm less concerned about the safety of my wife and daughters than he is, I think was unfortunate."

WASHINGTON (AP): Barack Obama, fresh from a rousing welcome in Germany where he brought a message of unity, pressed forward Friday on an international tour aimed at reassuring American voters he is best equipped to secure the U.S. and help mend rifts with key allies frustrated with eight years of unpopular Republican policies.
Obama was staying in Berlin through Friday before moving to France and Britain in a trip that brought him to war zones in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as Israel and the Palestinian territories.
a divided city and the front line of the Cold War. He said Europeans and Americans must work together to ``defeat terror and dry up the well of extremism that supports it,'' the same as they beat back the Communist challenge in the generations after World War II.

That speech in Germany before 200000 people by Barack Obama shows that glimmer of hope so many of us can see coming if he is elected president of the United

We all know that Barack Obama's quasi-presidential tour of Europe is aimed more at voters back home than at the good people of the Contintent. But it's instructive to see how Obama's trip has played over there, especially his mega-rally yesterday in Berlin, which reportedly drew 200,000 people. There is clearly, in the foreign press and among Europeans, a favorable recognition of Obama's promise to act less unilaterally than President Bush has. But reviews of Obama's journey, are, predictably, somewhat mixed.
keynote speech on trans-Atlantic' relations."
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