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Obama needed to make that international trip. If you have a weakness or a hole in your resume as a candidate, you need to address it.
He was wise to make the trip sooner than later. Keep in mind this was a strategic move that he'll spin later to positive effect. This was a case where he really could not win either way in the short term, but in the long term it should play positive.
Any candidate coming off a cycle where he is engaged in development of a weakness for strategic purposes later on, is going to read down. The idea is to address weakness soon enough so it is largely forgotten by the election.
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