MANCHESTER, N.H.—New Hampshire voters reacted about the same way as those elsewhere to Democrat Barack Obama's overseas trip -- with a mix of admiration and cynicism.
George Londono of Merrimack said this week he worried the trip could call fresh attention to Obama's inexperience in foreign policy. Londono said that's especially true for voters like himself who -- though he backs Obama -- had supported Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton for president.
As a media event, the trip was a political coup. Obama was photographed with troops in Afghanistan and spoke to a throng in Berlin, Germany, among other things.
But voters like Phil Wadlind -- who runs the children's train at the Mall of New Hampshire in Manchester -- were unimpressed. Wadlind deadpanned that he didn't know that people in the countries Obama visited could vote in the U.S. election.
