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To: i-node who wrote (402068)	7/26/2008 5:45:24 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576393

"But the plans are NOT identical. Malik's position has been, and continues to be, that American withdrawal must be based on accomplishment not an arbitrary time line. " That is administration spin. Here is the interview. spiegel.de Nowhere does al Maliki talk about accomplishments. He does talk about a concrete time line. "Had we done what Obama wanted to do, every credible military expert believes that Iraq would have been left in a totally unstable situation." You keep talking about something Obama said a long time ago. For the past year, he has talked about the 16 months starting in Jan. 2009.

To: i-node who wrote (402068)	7/26/2008 6:15:45 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576393

Oops! Barack Obama's European bounce The Democrat's seven-point edge is the strongest since Hillary Clinton quit by Mark Silva Berlin and Paris were good for Barack Obama. Democrat Obama's apparent advantage over Republican John McCain in national polling has "stretched'' to seven percentage points, according to the latest results of the Gallup daily tracking poll - a survey taken at the height of Obama's widely watched march across Europe, days in which he polled strongly against McCain. The junior senator from Illinois draws the support of 48 percent of those surveyed in the latest Gallup track, a three-day rolling average of interviews conducted Wednesday through Friday, as Obama was touring Berlin and Paris (Obama is pictured here with French President Nicolas Sarkozy in an AP photo). McCain's 41 percent-support in the survey matches his low for the month in the daily Gallup track. An early impact of the Democratic presidential candidates' foreign trip might be registered in these numbers, as the Gallup track had potrayed Obama and McCain in a virtual tie earlier in the week - with two percentage points between them. "But that was before the extensive U.S. news coverage of the last leg of Obama's foreign tour,'' Gallup's Lydia Saad notes today. "Obama's particularly large leads over McCain in Friday and Saturday's tracking suggest that the massive publicity surrounding Obama's speech at the Victory Tower in Berlin on Friday -- the only major public event of the trip -- and coverage of Obama's meetings with the heads of state in France and Germany may have tilted U.S. voter preferences more in his favor,'' Saad notes. "Obama's current seven-point lead over McCain ties his widest since the start of Gallup Poll Daily tracking of the general election in early March, and was achieved only once previously,'' she adds. "He led McCain by seven points immediately after Hillary Clinton suspended her campaign for the Democratic nomination in early June. However, that proved to be a short-lived bounce, with Obama holding a six- to seven-point lead for only three days before it dropped back to two to three points. "While Obama may have thus far received a modest bounce from the massive publicity surrounding this week's trip,'' Saad concludes, "his ability to sustain or build on that -- as opposed to having it dissipate along with news coverage of the trip -- could hinge on how the major U.S. media outlets and conservative vs. liberal commentators portray his performance abroad in the coming days.'' swamppolitics.com