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Poll: Split on New Yorker cover

AP — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:47:10 +0000

Add one more item to the long list of disagreements between Democrats and Republicans: Whether it was appropriate for The New Yorker magazine to publish a cover satirizing Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and his wife as fist-bumping...

In Germany, Obama urges joint fight against terror

AP — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:25:46 +0000

Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama stood before an enormous crowd in Berlin on Thursday and summoned Europeans and Americans to work together to “defeat terror and dry up the well of extremism that supports...

McCain visits German restaurant _ in Ohio

AP — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:08:35 +0000

Republican John McCain chose to go to a German restaurant as rival Barack Obama toured Berlin.

Rice unconcerned by freelance campaign diplomacy

AP — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:27:34 +0000

If Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is worried that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is complicating the Bush administration’s foreign policy with freelance campaign diplomacy, she isn’t showing...

Obama and German leader discuss war and economics

AP — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:26:07 +0000

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel discussed the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as climate and energy issues at Germany’s chancellery Thursday, part of a tour aimed at lifting the first-term senator’s international standing.

Obama arrives in Berlin and meets with Merkel

AP — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:41:59 +0000

Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama arrived in Berlin on Thursday, meeting German Chancellor Angela Merkel and kicking off the European leg of his overseas trip amid high...

Obama in Europe in effort to burnish foreign cache

AP — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:35:29 +0000

Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama landed in Berlin Thursday, kicking off the European leg of his overseas trip amid high expectations.

Obama arrives in Germany

AP — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:01:48 +0000

Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama has arrived in Berlin, kicking off the European leg of his overseas trip amid high expectations.

Obama 'Aint Got No Sense Of Humour

Incognito — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:24:03 +0000

What attracts me to a person is their sense of humour, particularly their ability to laugh at their own foibles. Self-deprecation is one of the most endearing and charming qualities a man/woman can have, especially those in positions of...

Obama visits Western Wall

AP — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:26:26 +0000

Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama paid a predawn visit to the holiest place in Judaism on Thursday, bowing his head in prayer at the Western Wall.