Yurt
07-22-2008, 01:34 PM
AMMAN, Jordan - Jordan, Israel and Germany aren't normally known as swing states in a White House campaign. But Barack Obama's off to a fast start in his attempt to change that with an election-season tour designed to show him as a potential commander in chief, equally comfortable sitting down — presidential style — with kings and other foreign leaders.
"The objective of this trip was to have substantive discussions with people ... who I expect to be dealing with over the next eight to 10 years," he said recently, evidently looking beyond this fall's election to a second term in the White House.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080722/ap_on_el_pr/obama_s_travels
and look, more change from obama (same link):
At the same time, he presumably hopes to avoid the type of complication that followed a speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee last month. He declared that Jerusalem must be undivided and Israel's capital. When Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas protested that was an issue for negotiations, Obama backtracked slightly.
i wonder who is footing the bill for this campaign trip...
"The objective of this trip was to have substantive discussions with people ... who I expect to be dealing with over the next eight to 10 years," he said recently, evidently looking beyond this fall's election to a second term in the White House.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080722/ap_on_el_pr/obama_s_travels
and look, more change from obama (same link):
At the same time, he presumably hopes to avoid the type of complication that followed a speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee last month. He declared that Jerusalem must be undivided and Israel's capital. When Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas protested that was an issue for negotiations, Obama backtracked slightly.
i wonder who is footing the bill for this campaign trip...