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Barack Obama Changes Australia (Anorak News)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:29:35 GMT

YOU will recall how Barack Obama, “bows to nobody in his understanding of this world“. Australians should now know that they are part of Asia. The Obama knows all: Seek New Partnerships in Asia: Obama will forge a more effective framework in Asia that goes beyond bilateral agreements, occasional summits, and ad hoc arrangements, such as [...]

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World must prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapon, says Barack Obama (The Guardian)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:37:44 GMT

"I will take no options off the table in dealing with Iranian threat," Obama told an audience in the Israeli town of Sderot, which has been the frequent target of rocket attacks from Gaza until last month's truce with Hamas. "What remains of non-proliferation would disintegrate. Many of these countries have ties to terrorists. That is our single most important threat."

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Barack Obama snubs Gordon Brown for Tony Blair (The Telegraph)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:56:42 GMT

By Andrew Pierce Last Updated: 3:11PM BST 23 Jul 2008 Tony Blair is still enormously popular in the United States Photo: REUTERS Mr Obama will fly into Britain on Friday for a meeting at his London hotel with Mr Blair to discuss the Middle East and climate change. He will meet Mr Brown the following day at Downing Street but has declined to take part in a televised press conference with the...

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Salam Al-Mahadin: Barack Obama's visit to the Middle East has been less than inspirational (The Guardian)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:29:25 GMT

Salam Al-Mahadin: Viewed from Jordan, Barack Obama's visit to the Middle East has been less than inspirational

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Barack Obama lauded during hectic Israel visit (The Telegraph)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:24:51 GMT

Senator Barack Obama sought to reassure Israel today that a White House led by him would not just maintain but strengthen the traditionally close links between America and the Jewish state.

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Martin Kettle: Barack Obama should visit the Hadrian exhibition on his trip to London (The Guardian)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:23:02 GMT

Martin Kettle: Senator, a trip to the British Museum's exhibition about this Roman emperor will be of far more benefit than hanging out with gloomy Gordon Brown

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Barack Obama attempts to ease fears during hectic Middle East tour (Times Online)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:04:54 GMT

Barack Obama embarked on a hectic one-day visit to Israel and the West Bank today, attempting as he did so to ease Israeli fears that he would be less favourable to their cause than President Bush.

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Barack Obama to appear with Kanye West at festival (New Musical Express)

news@nme.com — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:21:52 GMT

Barack Obama will introduce Kanye West onstage at Lollapalooza Festival (August 1-3) in an attempt to appeal to hip-hop fans, according to reports in the US media.

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Barack Obama's visit prompts Labour calls for Brown to emulate his tactics (The Guardian)

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:05:39 GMT

Democrat to meet Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and David Cameron on London visit

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Democrat Barack Obama viewed with suspicion in Israel (Times Online)

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:00:50 GMT

Barack Obama pledged yesterday to work for peace between Israel and the Palestinians from his first day in office, hours before arriving in the region where he faces a sceptical audience on both sides of the conflict.

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Barack Obama’s veep pick: all in the syllables? (Toby Harnden - Telegraph Blogs)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:38:46 GMT

Full coverage of the US elections 2008 I heard an interesting theory from Democratic strategist Jamal Simmons today about how to spot who Barack Obama will choose as his vice-presidential running mate. "If you look the length of the names of the presidential tickets," he told me. "Five syllable tickets don't tend to win." Thus, Mondale-Ferraro&n...

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Barack Obama By John Rentoul And David Aaronovitch (Anorak News)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:19:03 GMT

BARACK Obama: John Rentoul writes in the Independent: There was a moment last month – it was when Susan Sarandon, the actress, said she might emigrate to Italy or Canada if McCain won – when it seemed essential to the sanity of America that Obama should lose. But, no, it is more important that the daydream should [...]

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How will Britain receive Barack Obama? (Toby Harnden - Telegraph Blogs)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:18:20 GMT

Full coverage of the US elections 2008 Great piece of dogged shoe-leather reporting - he cornered David Cameron in a lift and George Osborne in the Central Lobby at Westminster - by my Belfast friend Ben Lowry in the Tele...

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Barack Obama visits Israel (The Telegraph)

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:58:04 GMT

Senator Barack Obama has flown into Israel vowing that if he wins the presidential election he will work towards ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict "from the minute I'm sworn into office".

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Bulldozer terror as digger driver goes on the rampage near Barack Obama's hotel (Daily Mail)

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:56:33 GMT

A Palestinian in a bulldozer rampaged along a street in Jerusalem injuring 20 people before he was gunned down. The incident happened close to a hotel where Barack Obama was due to arrive a few hours later.

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Barack Obama Is A Fucking Idiot (Screw Politically Correct B.S.)

noreply@blogger.com (Jenn) — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 03:43:00 GMT

"Barack Obama continued Tuesday to downplay the results of the so-called troop surge in Iraq, telling CBS News that while he credits the surge with helping to reduce violence in Iraq it “doesn’t meet our long-term strategic goal.” Uh...... so WHAT, asshole, is our long term goal? To have more dead soldiers, more dead Iraqi's and lose? I hate him, he's got to be the biggest tool to ever...

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Barack Obama at the West Bank (American Power)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:17:00 GMT

Via Little Green Footballs , here's Palestinian artist Walid Ayyub completing a portrait of Barack Obama in Ramallah, West Bank: As Barack Obama prepares to visit the city of Ramallah in the West Bank, a Palestinian artist sketches Obama among his other portraits of Jesus, “martyred” Hamas terrorist Abdel Aziz Rantisi (“The Pediatrician of Death”), and Che Guevara....

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Barack Obama: Bat Boy? (Cuz We Said So)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:48:46 GMT

Is Barack Obama the Bat Boy?

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Political Perceptions: Barack Obama, Not Traveling Light (Law Blog - WSJ.com)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:30:36 GMT

A small fraction of Barack Obama’s entourage tours the citadel in Amman, Jordan , Tuesday with conservation architect May Shaer, center. (AP Photo) Sen. Barack Obama doesn't exactly travel light. Politico's Carrie Budoff Brown writes that, as the candidate moves through the Middle East and Europe, the Obama campaign machine appears as sprawling and seamless as [...]...

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Barack Obama in a kippah (Boker tov, Boulder!)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:35:19 GMT

Now I've seen everything. U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., lays a wreath in the Hall of Remembrance at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem, Wednesday, July 23, 2008.... (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner) New York Times:.... At the King David Hotel, some supporters brought Obama campaign signs bearing the slogan “Change you can believe in,”...

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