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Do I Look Presidential?

What a week for Barack Obama.

He stood in the shadow of the Temple of Hercules, held forth at the Élysée Palace and convened a one-man news conference here on Saturday outside No. 10 Downing Street, all with a simple aim: to make a one-term senator from Illinois look presidential to voters back home in America, reports the New York Times.

For more details on the reaction to Barack Obama’s trip, click here.

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Ooh La La!

What could be more exciting that speaking in front of 200,000 screaming Germans?

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For today’s cover story, click here.

This issue of The Week is the latest in the string of Barack Obama Magazine covers to hit the newsstand.

And, that’s not surprising. Especially after seeing the 250,000 (the number keeps going up!) person crowd in Berlin yesterday or learning that bombshell Pam Anderson threw her boobs support behind Barack Obama.

Last week’s controversial cover of the New Yorker was a virtual sell-out on newsstands with early estimates at 75,000 up from the weekly average of 43,000, reports the NY Post. (Most copies are sold via subscription.)

For Us Weekly, the cover featuring Obama and his wife Michelle sold between 900,000 and 1 million, above the magazine’s 800,000 weekly newsstand average.

Obama is also on the cover of the recent double issue of Rolling Stone, which could sell as many as 250,000, also above the magazine’s newsstand average for double issues.

Said a spokeswoman for Time, “Of our five covers featuring Obama and/or Hillary Clinton. . . this year, they either sold significantly above average or above average. On the other hand, the John McCain cover this year sold just below average, reports the NY Post.

Time: Barack Obama as a child with his mom

Time: Barack Obama: And the Winner is…

Time: Hillary Clinton the Fighter

Time: Barack Obama/Hillary Clinton Cover

Time: Barack Obama/Hillary Clinton Cover

(Source: NY Post)

Posted by: Mark Pasetsky

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In front of almost 200,000 people, Barack Obama gave a speech in Berlin, urging Americans and Europeans to come together to defeat terrorism and extremism.

Here’s how the major media outlets in the U.S. and around the world are covering today’s historic event in Berlin.

New York Times: Obama Speaks to Germany on European Ties

MSNBC: In Berlin, Obama Warns Against Walls

Huffington Post: “PEOPLE OF BERLIN - PEOPLE OF THE WORLD - THIS IS OUR MOMENT. THIS IS OUR TIME.”

WSJ: In Berlin, Obama Urges Europe, U.S. to Renew Their Alliance

USA Today: Obama in Berlin: Tear down ‘new walls’

CNN: Obama uses Berlin symbolism to reunite old allies

Fox News: Obama Tells Berliners of Need to ‘Stand Together’

New York Post: Barack’s Berlin Test

L.A. Times:200,000 Germans gather to hear Barack Obama

Chicago Tribune:Barack Obama urges stronger alliances

Miami Herald: Obama addresses huge, adoring crowd in Berlin

Berlin Online:Fotostrecke: Vorbereitung für den Besuch von Obama

Daily Mail Online: Obama addresses 200,000 people in Berlin as he calls for ‘walls between Christians, Muslims and Jews to come down’

ABC News Online: Obama Echoes Reagan in Call for Global Unity

CBS News:Obama In Berlin: New Walls Must Come Down

Posted by: Michael Canterino

Finally, someone set the record straight.

Post by: Mara Siegler

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Go Barack says Pam!

Barack is having a BIG day. First, the speech in Berlin.

And now this!

The Huffington Post reports that the busty Baywatch star Pamela Anderson is endorsing Barack Obama.

“I love him. I think he’s going to win. I like that he’s opening up conversations all over the world.”

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Is John McCain becoming a Cry Baby?

Republican John McCain said he would like to give a speech in Germany as U.S. president not as a White House candidate, taking another swipe at rival Barack Obama while the Democrat gave a major address in Berlin.

“I’d love to give a speech in Germany … a political speech or a speech that maybe the German people would be interested in, but I’d much prefer to do it as president of the United States rather than as a candidate … for the office of presidency,” McCain told reporters in Ohio.

Oh Really?

My question is how many people would show up to see John McCain speak. Today, local officials estimated that nearly 200,000 people showed up to hear Barack Obama speak. I don’t believe McCain would draw anything close to that number - and that’s why he’s not making a speech in Germany. Not because he would prefer to wait until he was president.

On another note…

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MTV ran its first political ad in its 27-year history yesterday. The “Both Ways Barack,” attack ad is from conservative group Let Freedom Ring.

Post by: Mara Siegler

For more on Obama, click through.

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From Berlin today, Barack Obama added, “The walls between the countries with the most and those with the least cannot stand. The walls between races and tribes, natives and immigrants, Christian and Muslim and Jew cannot stand.”

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