Obama on tour: 'If it's Saturday, it must be London'

The Democratic presidential candidate has shored up his foreign-policy credentials with his carefully orchestrated globe-trotting. But it remains to be seen whether this will impress the folks back home, says Foreign Editor Raymond Whitaker It is a commonplace of American presidential elections that candidates make overseas trips to acquire the necessary foreign-policy gravitas, but has there ever been a tour like this? Barack Obama is now back home after an eight-day tour of eight countries and the Palestinian West Bank, during which he was treated as though he was already in the White House. Even though the diplomatic niceties were observed, most of his hosts appeared to be calculating that he would win his contest with John McCain in November. And when he reached Berlin, where he gave the keynote speech of his trip, the... [read full story]