Important Trip or Just a Stunt.

Senator Barack Obama has decided that the best way to give voters confidence in his foreign policy abilities by traveling to Europe and the Middle East to meet with some of the leadership of these nations.  My question is what difference does this make at this point?

We have about four months before we have to cast our votes and somehow this man is going to be the poster child for international diplomatic relation because he took a trip near the end of the campaign.  How does this trip prove or disprove claims that he is the better man to handle foreign relations.

All eyes are watching this trip that in reality is just a symbolic trip to get us thinking he is an international diplomat of some sort.

Senator Obama has been trialing in polls related to foreign policy and needs to chip away at that one area if he expects to get elected president.  I am not convinced that this is the way to build that sort of confidence unless the voting public as whole sees this vacation and is suddenly convinced that getting on a plane and meeting a few important people briefly suddenly makes you an expert on foreign relations. 

Do we not all know that any trip that a candidate makes at this point in the election is not about diplomacy it is about campaigning to be elected?  Candidates say and do a lot of things while campaigning that they will not do if elected.

Taking a trip, directly after Senator McCain just took some trips is probably a necessary move to counter any wild claims that the trips he took as part of his campaign were somehow relevant.  The same applies for him; he is a candidate looking for votes and this may have nothing to do with what he would do as president.

If this was really what Senator Obama or Senator McCain were all about these trips would have been transpiring a couple of years ago.

Everywhere I turn I see articles or hear news that says the all eyes will be watching Senator Obama.  As if this trip would make or break his campaign by exposing his weaknesses.

This trip is an okay gesture, but proves nothing, here or there about who the best president is.  I do not believe this trip to be anything but a stunt.  A stunt that may have been made necessary by Senator McCain’s recent trips (stunts), but a stunt none the less.

Are we going to get to some real issues again anytime soon?