By Matt Towery (7/24/08) The media already have gone over the top with their coverage of Sen. Barack Obama's international man-of-mystery tour.

Sen. Barack Obama is traveling to vital foreign-policy hotspots as part of a Congressional delegation, including Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) and Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI), but there is no missing the relevance of his tour of Germany, Afghanistan, Iraq and Israel, among other places, to his preparation on foreign policy matters and his labors as a presidential candidate. The media are covering it as if it were both a spectacular and ongoing campaign event and a foreshadowing of what Pres. Obama might look like when meeting with foreign leaders.
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The following is a transcript of an interview between Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and ABC News' David Wright. Republican presidential candidate Sen.

By LAURA MECKLER and ELIZABETH HOLMES As his campaign bus rolled through northern Wisconsin recently, John McCain interrupted a conversation to take a