"President Abbas welcomes this important visit and considers it evidence of the importance of the Palestinian issue in American foreign policy," he said, adding "Obama told Abbas he would not waste a minute if elected".
"Some of the ladies in town had read that in France, when someone important visited, they celebrated a famous battle," Mr. Gonzalez said.
But the most important visit was to a campaign office in Lakeland, where he thanked a dozen or so volunteers making voter calls.
Acknowledging that this was an important visit, the President offered to describe Pakistan's strategies to defeat terrorism and extremism and to clarify U.S. misperceptions about Pakistan's commitment.
"That is going to be an important visit, to remind the president and especially the military, that they need to take strong action to curb the militias in West Timor," Mr. Cohen said in an interview in his plane.
Walter Gibbs (NYT) ITALY: PAPAL SECURITY -- Calling the pope's pilgrimage the "most important" visit to Israel since its founding, Israeli officials in Rome said they were planning unprecedented security measures.
He also engineered, and masterfully bullied through Congress, the Vietnam War, a moral and strategic catastrophe that ripped the United States apart and, more important, visited a kind of hell on the Vietnamese.
