How many days will it be before we hear Obama describe his courageous arrival in to Iraq for the first time in over 900 days?

I assure you the description will include the words corkscrew landing.

Obama is scheduled to take a trip to Europe and the Middle East during the summer.

The Democratic National Convention starts on August 25th and runs thru the 28th. Obama is running out of time to visit Iraq.

I believe Obama's "surprise" visit will occur during his announced trip to Europe and the Middle East.It's understandable that the Secret Service would not want to telegraph the arrival of a presidential candidate in to a war zone.

Obama should have made the trip over the July 4th weekend so he could clarify his newest postion on Iraq. That would have been a great companion to his week of speeches on patriotism. Some are skeptical about those speeches.

The truth is Obama is saving his trip to Iraq so that he can bloviate about it at the convention. I can hear the soaring rhetoric as I write.
..."I landed in Iraq in a C130. We had to do what they call uhh uhh a corkscrew landing to make it difficult for the enemy to target the plane...etc"
It will culminate in a crescendo of patriotic adjectives about the virtues of our society and the need to make peace in the world. That will be followed by a kumbaya moment with Obama and his Veep.

The crowd will go bonkers,the baloons will drop(along with his poll numbers),the confetti will flutter down,the southerners will look for fried food and Obama will lose the election in a landslide to John McCain. :)