Obama in Jordan

I waited by my phone all day... but Sen. Obama never called. When will this campaign get its priorities in order?

Photo courtesy of the AP.

Here (http://video.yahoo.com/watch/3150549/8935718) is some cheesy video coverage from ABC. (Judging from Sam Donaldson's tone, it looks like ABC is worried about the "Right's" criticisms that the press is goo-goo-ga-ga'ing too much over Obama's foreign tour. I think Sen. Obama has been nothing short of spectacular and presidential.)

Here is what the BBC had to say.

And here is a bit from Maureen Dowd that made me smile:

The king of Jordan personally drove the prince of Chicago from the palace to the airport on Tuesday night to catch his flight to Israel, leading a motorcade in his slate Mercedes 600 across the tarmac and right up to O-Force One, as The Chicago Sun Times mockingly calls the candidate’s freshly branded 757, with the captain’s chair embroidered with “Obama-’08/President.” As the senator got out of the passenger seat, King Abdullah jumped out to chat some more, as though the two, who had only met in passing on the Hill, were old pals.

Obama finally found a Muslim with whom he’s willing to be photographed.

At moments, Obama was acting as though he were already “on a coin,” as Jon Stewart would say. But cocky or not, he needs to swoop up to conquer so Americans can picture him in the role.

The One left them swooning in Jordan. A member of the king’s inner circle who attended the chicken-and-rice dinner with King Abdullah and Queen Rania said that Obama had gone a long way toward assuaging their fears that he would be so eager to run away from his paternal family’s Muslim roots and to woo skeptical American Jews that he would not be “the honest broker” they long for after W.’s crazed missionary work in the Middle East.

“The guy gets it,” the Jordanian official said after dinner with Obama. “Sharp, aware and a very good listener. He doesn’t seem stuck in preconceived positions. He said he would get straight to the Palestinian issue as soon as he becomes president.”

And finally, a funny piece about the Obama staffers accompanying him to Amman.