Sen. Barack Obama's trip abroad was a very smartly stage-managed extravaganza, and it may well have accomplished the goal of the campaign: to assuage Americans that Obama can stand toe to toe with foreign leaders.
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- Borger: Events help both candidates on the economy (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_allpolitics/~3/34979 0172/index.html)