(Courtesy The Real News) “Most of the media referred to Senator Barack Obama’s ongoing tour as an effort to “burnish his foreign policy credentials” or to “show he’s got what it takes to be Commander-in-chief.” To that extent ,the Obama tour was moderately successful. We spoke with Phyllis Bennis, fellow for the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington DC and asked her about the implications of the Obama tour.”

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