From the Obama Campaign Director of Hubris, Part II
Redbeard
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article4363044.ece
Lest there be any illusions about the desired target audience for Obama’s trip, the foreign media, including the BBC, have been left on the Tarmac. Only American reporters are on board “Obama One” as his plane heads from one country to the next.
He will have a 45-minute meeting on Saturday morning with Gordon Brown followed by a press conference, which Obama will conduct on his own outside Downing Street in a blatant departure from the usual protocol.
There will be no Brown at his side to spoil the No 10 backdrop for American voters, even though it would be unthinkable for a British prime minister to appear in the White House Rose Garden without the president.
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Since you chalk this up to "hubris," I'm assuming that you have a problem with these decisions. Why is that? I'm particularly interested in your opinion about having only American journalists on the plane...
It does seem odd that a man who has spent so much energy worrying about how foreigners view us would shut out foreign reporters.
More interesting is Obama's snub of the British PM. Spotlight-sharing bad. Very bad.
One can only hope that if Obama manages to gain the White House that Mr. Brown will snub him in return.