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What effect did Obama's foreign trip have on his chances for victory in November?

  1. I cant say that it didnt help him. Just looking at the photos alone tells you that he is either a wildly popular unknown, or a viable presidential canidate, with enormous positives.

    Posted by Daisenryaku at 07/28/2008

  2. The trip allowed obama to make yet more grandiose statements that are often given weight by the MSM news readers. Again there is no substance to his high flying rhetoric and it is a shame. He has been empowered to make some difference by wide support from the internet and by enthusiastic students. I believe that his little bump in the polls shows nothing but that more people have now heard of him but am sure that that "blip" will be back at neck and neck with Bush3.... and that in itself is damning.

    Posted by nomolos63 at 07/28/2008

  3. The rest of the world is looking for a return to the America they loved, (or hated)...currently, under bush, we are pretty well universally disliked, if not depised. Obama appeared to give a ray of hope, that the time is now to get this nation back on track. It will be tough after the trainwreck left behind by bush and his cronies, but we have to start somewhere, sometime, and the present is the best time to get going.

    Posted by rasputin195 at 07/28/2008

  4. No difference, except surprise that he seems to be channeling GWB on middle east rhetoric.

    Posted by ebennet at 07/29/2008

  5. mcbush is the saddest candidate ever running since dole....he makes gore look like tom cruise....he is SO OUT OF TOUCH...it hurts.....

    the rest of the world hates mcsame even more than Americans...MSM needs to start posting more of overseas polls...if mcbush wants to tout foreign experience, why does the rest of the world detest him???? if you like being detested by the rest of the world, afraid to travel, too poor to travel, vote for mcbush!!!

    Posted by jrs112 at 07/30/2008

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