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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (11064)	4/10/2009 10:21:37 PM
From: puborectalis	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 103300

"Judged in this role, the trip was an unequivocal success for the president. In First Read, we compared this trip to an inaugural voyage to Iowa for a presidential candidate. Everything felt good, all the key officials were in suck-up mode and the media was "gee-whizzing" with its coverage (particularly about first lady Michelle Obama) — but when it was all over, tangible successes were hard to find. To be fair, I think the Obama administration is right when it says this trip was about supposed to be about planting seeds, just like a first trip Iowa is about seed planting. The popularity of this president was impressive to watch. World leaders were tripping over each other to be seen with him. Average Europeans gawked at his motorcade with more interest than even Americans have right now. One veteran European journalist even said to me that an American president hasn't been this popular in Europe since Eisenhower — and he saved the continent from destruction. " chuck todd