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Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
Barack Obama's campaign has received roughly 10 times more money from declared U.S. donors living in Germany, France and Britain than his Republican rival, reflecting his popularity in Europe as he makes his first tour of the continent as the presumed Democratic nominee.
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The World, According To Me (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Ad Age: It's official. Sen. Barack Obama's campaign will be among the TV sponsors of NBC Universal's Olympics coverage. In the first significant network-TV buy for any presidential candidate in at least 16 years, the Obama campaign has taken a $5 million package of Olympics spots that includes network TV as well as cable ads. According to NBC's political file, the campaign had initially requested information...
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Brutally Honest (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
I'm loving this: So much for "Obama Love." That's the title of John McCain's new web ad, which strings together clips of cable news pundits gushing over Obama like besotted teens. This romance has been a prominent story line of...
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Tony Phyrillas (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
If Europeans could vote for president of the United States, Barack Obama would run away with the election. Did anyone from the Obama campaign think to pass a collection plate at that big rally Obama held in Germany? Maybe they don't have to. The Republican National Committee says the campaign used the speech as a fundraising gimmick. Obama Uses Berlin Speech to Raise Campaign Cash, says Republican...
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First Read (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
From NBC/NJ's Athena Jones and NBC's Jim Miklaszewski and Courtney Kube ON PLANE EN ROUTE BERLIN TO PARIS -- In a briefing aboard the flight to Paris today, Robert Gibbs, a senior strategist for the Obama campaign, came to the back of the plane at least three separate times to explain to reporters that the decision to cancel the senator's trip to Ramstein and Landstuhl came after word from the Pentagon...
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Tennessee Guerilla Women (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
The New Republic , the so-called liberal press that spent the primary cheering Obama and portraying Hillary Rodham Clinton as psycho , says the media may be falling out of love with Obama. Of course we know that the media is no one's friend and falls in and out of love whenever it is profitable to do so. The piece excerpted below makes some serious charges as well as some ludicrous ones. Ludicrous...
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First Read (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
From NBC's Jim MiklaszewskiObama made phone calls to wounded soldiers at Landstuhl Germany this morning, in lieu of a personal visit to the forces that was canceled by the Obama campaign. Obama was expected to speak to a number of soldiers individually. ...( read more )
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Sweetness & Light (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
From ABC News: Obama Camp Pins Scrubbed Troop Visit on Pentagon Obama Camp says Pentagon Tried to Limit Their Planned Troop Visit in Germany; Pentagon Pushes Back By SUNLEN MILLER July 25, 2008 — The Obama campaign and the Pentagon are putting forth different versions of what happened before Sen. Barack Obama cancelled a planned Friday morning visit to [...]
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Obama HQ (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Senator Obama is in Paris, France today meeting with French President Nicolas Sarkozy. At the conclusion of their meeting, they will be holding a brief press conference. You can watch a live stream of the press conference below:
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ABC News (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Obama camp says Pentagon tried to limit a planned visit to troops in Germany.
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Confederate Yankee (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Why did Barack Obama cancel his visit to see wounded U.S. soldiers yesterday at Landstuhl Medical Center in Ramstein, Germany? According to the Politico and the Chicago Sun-Times, the Obama campaign is blaming the military, claiming that the Obama campaign...
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NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
As NewsBusters has been reporting for a number of weeks, more and more media members seem to be losing that loving feeling for presumptive Democrat presidential nominee Barack Obama. A rather stunning example came Thursday from Gabriel Sherman of The New Republic who suggested the Obama campaign's arrogance towards journalists has gone so far "that reporters [may] be emboldened to challenge his campaign...
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Krusty Konservative (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
While the news media ooos and ahhhhs over Barack Obama’s overseas trip and speech in Berlin, I’m left wondering if Obama’s campaign trip might have implications that his campaign, the media, and the US State Department have yet to consider. We all know that Obama didn’t go on his world tour to spread “hope” to the rest of the world, he went because he needed to beef up his foreign policy credentials....
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Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Jay Solomon reports from Germany on the presidential race. The Obama campaign is responding to criticism for its canceling of a planned visit to a U.S. military hospital in Landstuhl, Germany. The trip was to follow Sen. Barack Obama’s speech Thursday in Berlin that was attended by 200,000 Europeans. Obama’s opponents have used the cancelled visit to [...]
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The Moderate Voice (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
So how are people in other parts of the world, for example Brazil, interpreting Barack Obama’s global tour. And is this trip - as John McCain charges - simply an ‘electoral caravan’ on the part of Obama’s campaign? And if it is, does it matter? William Waack writes for Brazil’s leading daily: “John McCain is right when he says that his adversary is only committed to running an electoral caravan. And...
