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AMMAN - OBAMA SAYS DIFFICULT FOR ISRAEL AND PALESTINIANS TO MAKE

Alertnet (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008

Source: Reuters AMMAN - OBAMA SAYS DIFFICULT FOR ISRAEL AND PALESTINIANS TO MAKE BOLD MOVES FOR PEACE DEAL ...

Katie Couric In Amman Interviews Obama- McCain Weighs In

Theodore's World (Free subscription) | yesterday

. Wild Thing's comment........ McCain called for an got the surge strategy in Iraq...and it is clearly working. Obama can't grasp, or will fail to acknowledge, due to his own anti-American and marxist tunnel vision, any of the following...

CBS Katie Couric Interview with Barack Obama in Amman, Jordan

This Week With Barack Obama (Free subscription) | yesterday

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Video: Senator Obama in Amman, Jordan

Obama HQ (Free subscription) | yesterday

Senator Obama discussed his findings in Afghanistan and Iraq this afternoon in Amman, Jordan. Watch the video...

Notes from Amman

Slog (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008

Via Ben Smith : One of the features of this trip seems to be foreign leaders offering Obama assistance with his politics -- clearly in Iraq, but also in Great Britain and, apparently, Jordan, where Carrie Budoff Brown reports that the King " drove Obama—literally, the King was behind the wheel of a Mercedes—to his campaign plane on the tarmac in Amman at 9:15 pm."

Remarks of Senator Barack Obama - Amman, Jordan

Lynn Sweet (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008

Good afternoon. It has been a privilege to be joined by Senator Jack Reed and Senator Chuck Hagel. I've been deeply impressed by their expertise and commitment to American national security. By any measure, they have rendered remarkable service to...

Obama’s Staff Seen Smoking Hookahs Late at Night in Amman

Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008

Barack Obama tours the citadel in Amman, Jordan. Photo: Getty Images We couldn't help but dig this small detail from Mike Allan's Political Playbook today on Politico : With Senator Obama still in Iraq, his staff and press could be seen smoking flavored tobacco in hookahs in their Amman hotel bar, well past midnight local time. Ahem, they call them nargilas in Jordan, thanks. Why Fox News isn't running...

Obama pool report 3: Amman to Jerusalem

Lynn Sweet (Free subscription) | yesterday

ARRIVAL IN JERUSALEM A group of nine men, including Israel's Ambassador to the United States (XXx) waited to greet Obama on the tarmac. Your pool was told that one of them was Sallai Meridor, Israel's ambassador to the USA. At...

“Let me be absolutely clear,” Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, said today at a press conference in Amman, Jordan. “Israel is a strong friend of Israel’s.”

Right Voices (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008

He has 300 advisors and still can’t get it right.

Sweet video: Reporting from Amman, Jordan

Lynn Sweet (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008

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First thoughts: A Man in Amman

First Read (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008

From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, and Domenico Montanaro*** A man in Amman: Obama has arrived in Jordan, beginning the post-Afghanistan/Iraq part of his overseas trip. Per NBC/NJ’s Athena Jones, Obama will hold a press conference at the Amman Citadel with Chuck Hagel and Jack Reed, who accompanied the presumptive Democratic nominee on his visit to Iraq and Afghanistan. After that, Obama will have a wide-ranging,...

ToDaZeD Uh-bama WTF?!?

Knowledge is Power (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago

Arrogant Dork Carrie Budoff Brown reports from the flight from Amman to Tel Aviv: Obama aides were reminded by reporters - for the second time today - that he isn’t in the White House yet, and therefore they can’t invoke White House rules and traditions. An unpaid foreign policy adviser worked for Clinton) told reporters that he never, in his four years in the White House, had go on the record for...

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The Trip: Prime (Time) Distinction [BAGnewsNotes]

The Liberal Blog Network (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago

Given the increasingly apparent stature gap -- with Obama's appearance in Amman taking on the look-and-feel of a full-fledged Presidential news conference -- the difference between the first shot above and the slightly scruffy, old-time, "vision-thing" quality of Mac and Poppy, and the recorders, is not the function of media bias, as McCain's understandable frustrated advisers insist.

Obama Camp Suffering from Deweyitis

Tammy Bruce (Free subscription) | yesterday

When a reporter has to remind a cap flack that your guy isn't the president, it's time to check with the Dewey Presidential Library when it comes to certain rhetoric. Obama tries to dial down politics AMMAN, Jordan – Democrat Barack Obama’s entire traveling campaign apparatus is in place. He will speak Thursday at an historic site in Berlin that could draw tens of thousands of spectators. And chief...