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...news conference marked the 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...
...Beginning with his stop in Amman, the remainder of the trip is being orchestrated by Obama's presidential campaign. And while campaign officials continue to stress that this international journey will be one of substance - including meetings that Obama will hold with leaders here, as well as in Israel, the Palestinian territories, Germany, France and England - the setting of the news conference showed how carefully they are considering stagecraft as they seek to portray the relatively inexperienced Illinois Senator as capable of holding his own in the international arena...
...next phase of the trip - to Israel and the Palestinian territories - may well be the most perilous politically for Obama, as he seeks to strike the perfect note in that diplomatically delicate part of the world. While there, Obama will meet with both Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad as well as Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Defense Minister Ehud Barak and opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu. His every word will be parsed and closely scrutinized, not only in the region but also at home in the U.S., especially by American Jews, some of whom have expressed reservations...
...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's sort of the point of the whole exercise. Obama has stopped in Afghanistan, Iraq, Jordan, Israel and plans to visit the Palestinian territories, before heading off to Germany, France and England. Not everyone has treated Obama like a Commander in Chief, but some did him one better: after Obama joined King Abdullah II for dinner at the palace in Amman, the Jordanian leader hopped into his Mercedes and drove Obama...
...voters, the trip is a chance to gauge how a 46-year-old Senator with relatively little Washington experience might fare on the world stage. That was the promise in making such a high-profile tour in the middle of a tight presidential contest, but there was some risk, too: the danger of a gaffe or, 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...