Im not president yet says Obama

PARIS: US White House hopeful Barack Obama yesterday pointed out during a trip to Europe - where he has had a rapturous welcome - that he was still merely a presidential hopeful. "Just let me remind everybody that I'm not the president. I am a US senator, I am a candidate for president," he said at a joint Press conference with French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris. The Democrat has had string of presidential style meeting and a packed presidential-style schedule in recent days on a tour taking him from Afghanistan to Iraq to Europe. He received a rock star welcome from 200,000 cheering fans for a speech he made in Berlin calling for the world to tear down walls of division and hate. Several US Republicans have criticised him for mounting "a political stunt overseas." The first-term senator from Illinois smoothly executed... [read full story]