Jul 18 2008
Shopping and sightseeing?
Mr. Obama has a 300-person foreign policy team is soon going on his first overseas trip, as the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. Hmmmm, to drum up his image? I’m wondering who will receive him - protocol wise - not by the head of the state, I’d think. Then what’s the point of the trip? Just roaming around like a tourist with a bus load of other Americans? Thought of a scene I remembered: one day I went to visit Notre Dame in Paris. Looking up at the Gothic cathedral, thinking of the Victor Hugo’s 1831 novel, the romance the Gypsy girl Esmeralda had (red dress .. Quasimodo, and the French Captain Phoebus ..) then came into my view a big tour bus, unloading big Americans. They were not just tall, but huge (being PC here), compare to Europeans. They were casual, carefree and friendly, wooo and ahhhhh a lot at the church. Not the most sophisticated group, but very endearing. ..
I don’t think the voters would be impressed at home. I’m impressed by his 300 people strong cast - Foreign Policy for Dummies, the boy emperor with a cheat sheet; I’m impressed he that he reached out to Colin L. Powell (not totally unexpected); I’m impressed with his audacity for making this trip.