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...That doesn't mean that anything's probable. The media will try to preserve the illusion of a toss-up; you'll keep seeing "Obama Leads, But Voters Have Concerns" headlines. But when Democrats are winning blood-red congressional districts in Mississippi and Louisiana, when the Republican President is down to 28% approval ratings, when the economy is tanking and world affairs keep breaking Obama's way, it shouldn't be heresy to recognize that McCain needs an improbable series of breaks. Analysts get paid to analyze and cable news has airtime to fill, so pundits have an incentive...
...Tiergarten. Campaign officials have been sensitive about the characterization of that event, insisting that it is a substantive foreign policy address, though given German enthusiasm for Obama, the atmosphere is expected to look more like a political rally. They said Obama is not likely to mention his opponent, presumptive Republican nominee John McCain, but they would not say whether he will criticize the policies of George W. Bush...
...start of a second phase of Obama's weeklong trip to the Middle East and Europe. His visit to Iraq and Afghanistan was as part of a congressional delegation that included Democratic Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island, a senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and Republican Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, who has been one of his party's leading critics of the Iraq war. The two Senators flanked him at the news conference...
...perhaps worse, that voters would see the foreign swing not as an bold audition but as a supreme act of presumption. To help guard against that, Obama spent the Iraq and Afghanistan portions of the trip flanked by Democratic Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island, a West Pointer, and Republican Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, a onetime ally of Senator John McCain...
...Israel will be another test of his skills - polls show that Israelis are far warier of Obama than of Republican hopeful Senator John McCain, and as one Israeli official put it, "Obama's here to show that there's no reason for us to be scared of him." The junior Senator from Illinois visited Israel as part of a congressional delegation in 2006, and the Israeli foreign minister at the time, Silvan Shalom, says he remembers Obama as someone who "asked questions and took a lot of notes...