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.
While he's at it, Obama may extend his journey to other parts of the globe, especially Western Europe, where his racial mix, youth, optimism and themes of anti-Bush, multilateral diplomacy have generated impassioned interest in his candidacy.
I don't like the idea of the Obama campaign responding to McCain's ridiculous challenge (I mean he has been to Iraq multiple times and is still wrong about it), but I envision an Obama world tour a pretty good thing for his campaign and his future as our President.
I have a feeling that the rest of the world is going to absolutely love our next President.
Don't you?
yup.....
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