Obama's overseas trip 'a success'

Barack Obama's high-profile overseas trip was being hailed as a success by many in America.

Lauded as an "impressive figure" who now has "an album of enviable images with generals, rank-and-file troops and world leaders" to boost his foreign policy credentials, Mr Obama travelled to Britain to add Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and David Cameron to his scrapbook.

But the much-hyped week-long visit to Europe and the Middle East has not gone without question - with US political pundits wondering whether the Democratic US presidential hopeful will get carried away on the wave of emotion, and what he is doing overseas just three months from the general election anyway.

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