Obama considering world tour ahead of August convention
Barack Obama may depart this summer from his road-warrior tour of election-battleground states to take a trip around the world, one intended to shore up his credentials on foreign policy.
With a foreign trip under discussion in the Obama camp, any itinerary almost certainly would include a stop in Iraq. That would be his first trip to the war zone since early 2006. It would be designed to answer Republican presidential candidate John McCain’s criticism that antiwar Obama can’t talk credibly about withdrawing U.S. forces since he hasn’t been on the ground there since the 2007 troop buildup brought some military success.
…A Pew Global Attitudes survey released Thursday found that people abroad feel more favorably toward either Obama or McCain than they do toward President Bush. But when they were asked how confident they are that the next president will make good foreign-policy decisions, Obama beat McCain in almost every nation, including 72-19 percent in Spain, 82-33 percent in Germany, 52-17 percent in Indonesia and 31-23 percent in Egypt.
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[Who is paying for this extravaganza? Does this fool realize he’s running for president in the USA, not the world? ]