Obama Show Coming to Europe, Mideast

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  3. Electing an African American shows the US is tolerant and mature—qualities it claims to possess and "that people abroad want it to possess."
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• Next Prez's To-Do: Fix Diplomacy

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  1. Visit all Middle East countries; leave a full-time envoy: "It is appalling that President Bush made his first trip to Israel and the Palestinian territories in his final year."
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• Obama Wins Hamilton Nod

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  Hamilton, who said Obama "has the best opportunity to create a new sense of national unity," should help his candidate both in the May 6 Hoosier primary and on the national security front. More »