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Anchored by his trip abroad, Obama dominated, even if his stance on the Iraq troop surge and a withdrawal timetable appeared a bit muddled. Observers will look for a polling bounce from the most lopsided stretch of the race...
...difficult to see much difference between Barack Obama's first trip abroad since capturing the Democratic nomination and a genuine state visit by a sitting President, well, that was sort of the point of the whole exercise. Obama stopped in Afghanistan, Iraq, Jordan, Israel and the West Bank before heading to Germany, France and England. There was the extraordinary security at every stop: police in Baghdad set up new roadblocks and checkpoints to secure the Iraqi capital while he was in town. There was the picture-perfect stagecraft: speaking at a police station in Sderot, Israel, Obama was flanked...
...voters, the trip was a chance to gauge how a 46-year-old Senator with relatively little Washington experience would perform on the world stage. He acknowledged along the way that, yes, Iraq was a safer, calmer place than it had been a year ago but refused to give much credit for that change to President George W. Bush's surge of some 30,000 troops. Instead, he noted in nearly every interview how the Sunni backlash against al-Qaeda in Iraq had begun before additional U.S. forces arrived. Pressed repeatedly, Obama insisted that his opposition to the surge...
...Obama began the first full day of his second-ever trip to Israel with a pilgrimage to Jerusalem's Yad Vashem Holocaust museum, where he laid a wreath of white flowers on a stone under which ashes of those who died in the camps are buried. And he chose as the site for his only news conference of the day the police station at Sderot, a town near the edge of Gaza that has been the target of Palestinian bombardment for the past seven years. His backdrop was a stack of hundreds and hundreds of shells that have fallen...
...table to prevent that from happening, he stopped short of saying that he's in favor of the United States using force to stop the Iranians - which is what many Israelis yearn to hear. And the presumptive Democratic nominee also met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah - a trip that Republican nominee-to-be John McCain did not make when he was in Israel a few months...