Presumptuous,self confident or spot on?

Gordon Brown will be hoping that the visit of Barack Obama to these shores will deflect the attention away from the Glasgow East by election.

But whilst Obama would surely win an elction if it was held in Germany,wht really counts is the what the voters think back in the USA.

This is some of the reaction back in the States

maybe it's possible for a presidential candidate to regard himself or herself too highly

says the Chicago tribune adding

has there ever been a presidential nominee with a wider gap between his estimation of himself and the sum total of his lifetime achievements?

The Washington post asks

Whether by the end of this week he will be seen as presumptuous or overly cocky, or ready enough to sit in the Oval Office to satisfy the doubters, is the overriding political question.

The Boston Globe looks at what the McCain camp are saying

the latest advocacy group ad in the presidential campaign also jumps on the press coverage of Obama, plus the growing sense in some quarters that the presumptive Democratic nominee is getting a little presumptuous

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