Four years ago, Sen. Barack Obama embarked on a heavily hyped trip abroad that took him through eight countries and two war zones — and left no doubt about the heights to which his international renown had grown.
The grand tour was keynoted by a speech in Berlin in which the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee was welcomed with rock star-level adoration by what was likely the largest crowd of the entire 2008 campaign.
The American media gave far more attention to Obama’s journey abroad than it typically devotes to similar excursions by sitting presidents, and the trip…
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