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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!At the White House press briefing this afternoon, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs tried to repeat the Administration's discredited explanation for an apparent bow that President Barack Obama gave to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia at the G-20. The reporter wasn't buying it, as evidenced by video of the exchange.LOTHIAN: When the President met with King Abdullah, there was something that took place which I believe the White House explained was just the president being taller than the king. We took a look at the video, and it does appear that the president actually bowed to King Abdullah. Did he bow ...
Reports out of London indicate that President Barack Obama declined an inviation from French President Nicholas Sarkozy to visit Normandy's Omaha Beach and the American Cemetery at Colleville-sur-mer on his way to Strasbourg for the NATO summit last week. The Daily Telegraph reports that White House officials travelled to France last month to discuss the visit with their counterparts on Sarkozy's staff. But one American official familiar with the negotiations said that President Obama never had any intention of making the stop over."It wasn't going to happen. We went through the motions to ...
The McCain campaign, seeking to take advantage of the controversy surrounding Sen. Barack Obama's canceled visit to the Landstuhl military hospital while in Germany this week, released a new television spot titled "Troops." The ad takes Obama to task for the cancellation and hits him for his lax oversight of Afghanistan as chairman of a Congressional committee charged with keeping tabs on the war effort there. The controversy over the hospital snub is causing Obama's week-long foreign trip to end on a sour note, and McCain is using the opening to raise questions about Obama's readiness to be ...
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