Obama Disputes He's on a 'Premature Victory Lap'
By Dan Balz and Karla Adam
Washington Post
LONDON -- Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama wrapped up his weeklong foreign tour Saturday, meeting at length with past, present and possibly future British prime ministers and rebutting charges from Republican John McCain's campaign that the trip amounted to a "premature victory lap" by an overly confident candidate.
Obama argued that McCain had long ago urged him to take a foreign trip and now was complaining because he had done so. "John McCain has visited every one of these countries post primary that I have," Obama told a scrum of reporters on the driveway outside No. 10 Downing Street, where the prime minister lives and works.
"He has given speeches in Canada, in Colombia, Mexico, he made visits," he added. "And so it doesn't strike me that we have done anything different than the McCain campaign has done, which is to recognize that part of the job of the next president, commander in chief is to forge effective relationships with our allies."
The final day of the trip began with a breakfast meeting with former prime minister Tony Blair at the hotel on Portman Square where Obama and his advisers were staying. From there he went to see Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Downing Street and later visited with David Cameron, the leader of the Conservative Party.
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Washington Post
LONDON -- Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama wrapped up his weeklong foreign tour Saturday, meeting at length with past, present and possibly future British prime ministers and rebutting charges from Republican John McCain's campaign that the trip amounted to a "premature victory lap" by an overly confident candidate.
Obama argued that McCain had long ago urged him to take a foreign trip and now was complaining because he had done so. "John McCain has visited every one of these countries post primary that I have," Obama told a scrum of reporters on the driveway outside No. 10 Downing Street, where the prime minister lives and works.
"He has given speeches in Canada, in Colombia, Mexico, he made visits," he added. "And so it doesn't strike me that we have done anything different than the McCain campaign has done, which is to recognize that part of the job of the next president, commander in chief is to forge effective relationships with our allies."
The final day of the trip began with a breakfast meeting with former prime minister Tony Blair at the hotel on Portman Square where Obama and his advisers were staying. From there he went to see Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Downing Street and later visited with David Cameron, the leader of the Conservative Party.
(Continued here.)
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