I think this world tour has cemented Obama's victory and only a huge gaff bigger then the "cling to the guns and religion thing" will lose it for him. Obama is writing the narrative astride the world like a colossus, with the MSM hanging on his every word, while McCain sits on his hands and seemingly does nothing. This is the narrative in a nutshell:
For the most part, the side-by-side images weren't pretty:
_Obama meeting with leaders in Iraq, McCain on a golf cart in Kennebunkport, Maine, with the first President Bush.
_Obama before a sweeping Mideast landscape, McCain holding a news conference in a supermarket in Bethlehem — Pennsylvania, that is — and narrowly escaping an attack from a tumbling stack of apple sauce jars.
_Obama delivering his trip's keynote speech at Berlin's Victory Column, McCain eating bratwurst and chatting with reporters at a German restaurant in Columbus, Ohio.
Yup you can picture the Daily Show sketch where they cut to Obama talking with Patraeus in a helicopter and McCain hitting a golf ball. Then you have Obama walking with Merkel and you have McCain eating a bratwurst. Finally you cut to Obama talking in front of a massive throng in Berlin and you have McCain talking in front of a small group of senior citizens in a supermarket.
Obama is just starting to actually look presidential while McCain looks like he is running for County Treasurer or something. McCain is blowing this election slowly but surely.
In fact McCain is finally getting around to the "audacity of hopelessness argument" that if Obama was President then Iraq would be a massive civil war zone that could have engulfed the Middle East while we ran for the exits. This argument would have been great if Obama was still in Iraq. There would have been some resonance to show Obama moving around Iraq while McCain is saying that the Iraqis are lucky that America didn't listen to Obama and abandon them while things were getting tough.
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