Anne Applebaum's An Election Goes Abroad in The Washington Post:
...It's also useful for American voters to spend some time thinking about how their president will be perceived abroad because that's where he's going to be spending a lot of his time, like it or not. ....If Obama or McCain is going to be preoccupied with foreigners, perhaps it's not a bad idea for both to prove they can cope.
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/14/AR2008071401844.html