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“When Obama speaks to 200,000 Germans in Berlin, the talking head main stream media considers this “presumptious'” or “acting presidential. When John McCain overshadows the sitting President with his hard-line approach to the Russia/Georgia conflict, sending two top surrogates to Georgia, the MSM is missing in action. Can we trust the MSM to provide responsible and unbiased journalism?

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“When Obama speaks to 200,000 Germans in Berlin, the talking head main stream media considers this “presumptious'” or “acting presidential. When John McCain overshadows the sitting President with his hard-line approach to the Russia/Georgia conflict, sending two top surrogates to Georgia, the MSM is missing in action. Can we trust the MSM to provide responsible and unbiased journalism?

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BIRMINGHAM, Mich. — Senator Barack Obama brushed aside allegations of presumptousness today about whether Senator Joe Biden, had strayed over the political line yesterday when he said that Senator John McCain had shown cluelessness in his initial response to the war between Russia and Georgia.

And he tried to tamp down earlier charges from the McCain camp that he was responding to the Russian crisis with an inexperience that could only make the situation worse. He said he was taking a hard line on Russia but wasn’t trying to “reignite the Cold War.”

It was all part of a struggling effort by the Obama campaign to seize on the events overseas to appear presidential and in command on the world stage while at the same time not appearing to be political. At several points today, he emphasized that he had gone overseas many times and was familiar with the players.

He also said he was sending Mr. Biden, of Delaware, and Senator Jim Webb, Democrat of Virginia, to Georgia, as both stood beside him at a flag-bedecked news conference here. Mr. Obama is the junior most member of the Senate.

At a posh fund-raiser in Honolulu H.I.., on Tuesday, Mr. Biden had criticized a statement from Mr. McCain, the likely Republican nominee, about the war in Georgia.

“As the Russians move into Georgia as aggressors, and if you read the statements from the beginning, from Senator McCain and Senator Obama, one had a kind of presumptousness to it,” Mr. Biden said Tuesday. “That comes, I think, from being clueless.” He added that Mr. Obama’s statement was “strong and clear” and showed he was ready to be commander in chief from day one.

At his news conference today, Mr. Obama was asked whether his own comments in support of Georgia had not made the situation worse. He curtly dismissed the question, saying this was not a time for “partisanship and sniping” between campaigns but about a human tragedy.

BIRMINGHAM, Mich. — Senator Barack Obama brushed aside allegations of presumptousness today about whether Senator Joe Biden, had strayed over the political line yesterday when he said that Senator John McCain had shown cluelessness in his initial response to the war between Russia and Georgia.

And he tried to tamp down earlier charges from the McCain camp that he was responding to the Russian crisis with an inexperience that could only make the situation worse. He said he was taking a hard line on Russia but wasn’t trying to “reignite the Cold War.”

It was all part of a struggling effort by the Obama campaign to seize on the events overseas to appear presidential and in command on the world stage while at the same time not appearing to be political. At several points today, he emphasized that he had gone overseas many times and was familiar with the players.

He also said he was sending Mr. Biden, of Delaware, and Senator Jim Webb, Democrat of Virginia, to Georgia, as both stood beside him at a flag-bedecked news conference here. Mr. Obama is the junior most member of the Senate.

At a posh fund-raiser in Honolulu H.I.., on Tuesday, Mr. Biden had criticized a statement from Mr. McCain, the likely Republican nominee, about the war in Georgia.

“As the Russians move into Georgia as aggressors, and if you read the statements from the beginning, from Senator McCain and Senator Obama, one had a kind of presumptousness to it,” Mr. Biden said Tuesday. “That comes, I think, from being clueless.” He added that Mr. Obama’s statement was “strong and clear” and showed he was ready to be commander in chief from day one.

At his news conference today, Mr. Obama was asked whether his own comments in support of Georgia had not made the situation worse. He curtly dismissed the question, saying this was not a time for “partisanship and sniping” between campaigns but about a human tragedy.