President Obama Continues Hectic Victory Tour

There has been a lot of talk this week about Obama’s arrogance. It is even richer when his liberal allies in the press expound upon the notion that Obama has “assumed the presidency.”

By Dana Milbank
Wednesday, July 30, 2008; A03

Barack Obama has long been his party’s presumptive nominee. Now he’s becoming its presumptuous nominee.

Fresh from his presidential-style world tour, during which foreign leaders and American generals lined up to show him affection, Obama settled down to some presidential-style business in Washington yesterday. He ordered up a teleconference with the (current president’s) Treasury secretary, granted an audience to the Pakistani prime minister and had his staff arrange for the chairman of the Federal Reserve to give him a briefing. Then, he went up to Capitol Hill to be adored by House Democrats in a presidential-style pep rally.