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July 20, 2008 9:18 PM
With his trademark big red and blue "O" festooned on the tail wing, Sen. Barack Obama's newly retrofitted and re-designed general election plane was unveiled today after receiving a makeover from its shabbier primary season look.
The redone 757 North American plane also has Obama's "CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN" slogan painted along both sides of the plane, as well as the Web address for his campaign.
Obama’s new plane has 104 total seats, with a new front area of the plane for Obama and his staff, separated by a curtain. Tables for meetings are in the front section for staff.
The Obama express makes its maiden voyage from Chicago to Shannon, Clare, Ireland, to refuel -- and then continues on to Amman, Jordan.
The only thing the new plane doesn’t have yet?
A candidate.
Thirty-eight members of the national press made the maiden voyage sans Senator Obama, who will link with the press corps after his congressional delegation trip to Afghanistan and Iraq.
Thirty-one others are on this maiden flight, including Obama senior foreign policy advisors James Steinberg, Richard Danzig, Denis McDonough and Wendy Morigi, and communications staffers Robert Gibbs and Linda Douglass. Obama's "body man" Reggie Love is also up front.
The plane's new design partitions the press from the candidate and his staff with a new physical barrier. The new Obama staff section has new wider business class seats replacing the smaller coach-sized ones in the rest of the plane.
- Jake Tapper and Sunlen Miller
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Bush is consistent: Arrogant, egotistic and uninformed.
Posted by: Soetoro No! | Jul 21, 2008 12:48:59 PM
During and After the Speech Obama will make in Germany--- watch the pundits make the comparisons of Obama to Hitler.
CAN'T WAIT !
Posted by: carpenter.nyc | Jul 21, 2008 12:44:49 PM
The Denver Group has a special match going. It is trying to ensure a fair convention in Denver. The primary was an anti-democratic sham and we need to ensure that Democrats don't continue to shut out a huge element of the party.
Posted by: 57 states and counting | Jul 21, 2008 12:40:28 PM
"Obama is a 14 old mind in a 46 (when is it going to be 47) year old body."
Permanent adolescents make the best front-men -- no pesky arguments to their handlers, other than "Are we there yet??
Posted by: Belle Starr | Jul 21, 2008 12:23:12 PM
For once we r talking about someone exciting. What's the point of talking about someone who looks like a robot, thinks like a robot & moves like a robot. My friends, my friends. Ooooh shut up. No to Mcsame/Mcbush
Posted by: Carlos Mencia | Jul 21, 2008 12:22:33 PM
Most of these critisums are due to the fact Obama is the "new guy" so people just feel like Hillary or mcsame are entiled to be in a high office. What I find funny is most of the strong women I know never suported Hillary because she didn't have the guts to leave a cheating husband.. But at least if she were running as a republican we would have two good choices. But with mcsame he's just out of touch.
Posted by: Joe | Jul 21, 2008 12:22:03 PM
German media is reporting that Obama will prohibit placards and banners at his speech. Afraid of a few protests? This site does not seem to allow links, but you can try the publication bild with a "de" designation
Posted by: katmandu | Jul 21, 2008 12:19:54 PM
Obama is consistent: Arrogant, egotistic and uninformed.
Posted by: Soetoro No! | Jul 21, 2008 12:19:20 PM
Christian Science Monitor this morning (NPR raido) said PM Maliki that despite the evidence that Obama had a dearth of foreign affairs experience, he was still pleased to have met with him.
Coupling this with Obama's body language in photo with Karzai...Obama is a 14 old mind in a 46 (when is it going to be 47) year old body.
Posted by: iron my shirt | Jul 21, 2008 12:18:49 PM
"Mcsame is out of his legue"
Don't worry about THAT: McCain's the rodeo clown -- he won't be the Republican nominee.
Posted by: Belle Starr | Jul 21, 2008 12:18:33 PM
Why are these meetings Obama is holding with these leaders secret closed door meetings.
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Kind of makes you wonder what Obama is promising them to say what Obama wants them to say.
Is Obama selling out America in these secret closed door meetings.
JAKE TAPPER do your job for once and investigate what Obama is promising these leaders in these closed door meetins
Posted by: seller out | Jul 21, 2008 12:18:05 PM
"America desrves the truth"
Like W and the repubs have given us the last 8 years? These are some of the dumbest posts I've seen. People are quick to forget about Mcsame's bases that are unwanted in Iraq his lack of knowledge on the " Iraq Pakastani border"
Mcsame is out of his legue and if he were somehow to win. It would be a tremendous loss for our country.
Posted by: Joe | Jul 21, 2008 12:14:54 PM
Democrats waste so much money on at a 3 to 1 ratio of republicans and most of the time lose
Posted by: spiinner | Jul 21, 2008 12:09:11 PM
McCain makes first foreign policy gaffe of Obama's Iraq trip. On Good Morning America this morning:
Asked by Diane Sawyer whether the "the situation in Afghanistan in precarious and urgent," McCain responded: "I think it's serious. . . . It's a serious situation, but there's a lot of things we need to do. We have a lot of work to do and I'm afraid it's a very hard struggle, particularly given the situation on the Iraq/Pakistan border."
Uh, Senator, it's the Afghanistan/Pakistan border.
Posted by: cincyr | Jul 21, 2008 12:08:27 PM
Is there any news media that does not spin the news to make Obama look like Jesus
Posted by: spiinner | Jul 21, 2008 12:07:02 PM
riley
-Yes Obama has the makings of a dictator.-
I'm reading this all over the blogs. Stop Obama did a piece with clips from Chaplin's "The Great Dictator".
Posted by: iron my shirt | Jul 21, 2008 12:03:16 PM
The same Press who loved and wanted GWB and the war, now want/love Obama. That's a bad sign
Posted by: Anne | Jul 21, 2008 11:57:55 AM
"The photo-op will be huge no matter where Obama chooses to speak."
Yeah, yeah: and there'll be a long line of flags he can wrap himself in.
But he won't "choose" to speak at the Brandenburg Gate, and we can thank Merkel (not the pathetic "post-partisan"'s fictitious fear, promoted as fact by his gang, er, campaign, of appearing "too presumptuous") -- for that.
Posted by: Belle Starr | Jul 21, 2008 11:52:36 AM
Belle Star,
The photo-op will be huge no matter where Obama chooses to speak. He is very popular with Europeans and that is refreshing. Finally a POTUS I don't have to be ashamed of. What a thought!
Posted by: Jane Hussein | Jul 21, 2008 11:47:37 AM
Yes Obama has the makings of a dictator.
Ryan Lizza (reporter from The New Yorker)was told there was not enough room on Obama's plane.
His campaign should at least have the guts to say that Obama is punishing those who criticize him.
Is he that thin-skinned and fragile or totally delusional and manipulative?
America cannot afford another president driven by blind ambition that only surrounds himself by those who tells him what he wants to hear.
This snub should tell the media to wake up to this man. He isn't a wholesome
saint that deserves their pampering.
America deserves the truth--the type of person and politician Obama really is and what he is willing to do for power.
Posted by: riley | Jul 21, 2008 11:45:10 AM
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