Let's see how far the Chicago media runs with this story. Of the newly elected senators in the 109th Congress, Barack Obama was the most traveled senator of the new senators of the 109th Congress, the "Class of 2004."
I'm not surprised. Obama is on the Senate Foreign Relations, and foreign travel is part of the job.
However, Obama's trip to Africa last summer, extensively covered in a fawning manner by the Chicago media, was essentially a campaign trip for Illinois' junior senator. Many of the local media made the trip to Africa with Obama.
Need proof? Check this Chicago Sun-Times link. Or this one from ABC 7 Chicago. Then's there's this CBS 2 Chicago story.
The reports that came from the "unbiased" media might as well have been written by Obama's press office.
Obama doens't accept travel money from private concerns, so he has some wiggle room, as Oklahoma's Tom Coburn, a Republican, take those funds. If you add that cash, then Coburn wins the international travel prize of the Class of '04.
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