While appearing on MSNBC's Hardball yesterday, Andrea Mitchell complained that Barack Obama has been giving "fake interviews" during his visits to Afghanistan and Iraq. Mitchell says they are fake, because no independent journalists were allowed to interview Obama, with the footage instead being provided by the U.S. military and the Obama campaign:
A pair of Iraqi bloggers have weighed in on the trip as well. Omar and Mohammed Fadhil say Obama is basing his travels on electoral politics and is benefiting from Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki being in a campaign fight of his own:
This visit, for Obama, is just a necessary evil -- part of an electoral campaign and not a sincere fact-finding mission. The fact that Obama made Afghanistan his first stop (after arriving in Kuwait, just next door to Iraq) suggests that it's his electoral campaign that sets his priorities when it comes to the war on terrorism, not the actual map and course of the war.
The Talisman Gate blog also weighs in on the trip, saying Obama needs to better explain his goals for the country and the larger Middle East region.
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