Campaign '08 Complete Coverage About The Candidates & Issues PARIS (AP) ― Friday was France's turn to greet Barack Obama who was to visit Paris just long enough for talks with the French president and a joint news conference, but no rousing speech like the one he delivered in Berlin despite his solid French fan club. One paper here said the Democratic presidential hopeful would rather keep quiet about his popularity with the French. Most newspapers headlined Obama's pending arrival with the leftist daily Liberation giving a full front-page spread to "Obamania." After Berlin, where Obama drew some 200,000 spectators for a speech Thursday, the conservative newspaper Le Figaro wrote that Obama is not looking to draw crowds in Paris "because he knows his huge popularity in our country could ill serve him with a part the American...
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