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WASHINGTON: Democratic White House contender Barack
Obama was to shift the focus of his campaign on the troubled US
economy Monday, after basking in the adulation of foreign crowds
during last week’s trip.
Switching gears back to the
central front of his campaign against Republican John McCain, Obama
was to convene here a glittering panel of economic advisers to
examine ways to address sky-high fuel prices and job insecurity.
The high-powered group includes
former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, ex-Federal Reserve Chairman
Paul Volcker, billionaire investor Warren Buffett and Google
Chairman Eric Schmidt.
“What is driving people all
across the country right now are worries and concerns about
inability to pay the gas bill, inability to buy food because prices
have gone up so high,” the presumptive Democratic presidential
nominee told NBC television Sunday.
“We’ve got to fundamentally
shift how we approach economic policy.”
Obama sailed through the biggest
tests of his trip, in Iraq, Afghanistan and Israel, and captured an
unprecedented photo-op for a presidential candidate, speaking before
a staggering crowd of 200,000 people in Berlin.
Republicans, however, branded his
tour, also including Kuwait, France and Jordan, as a shallow
political stunt.
--AFP
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