Obama campaign plane to depart Chicago for Mid-east, Europe

In a newly painted 757 -- with the Obama sunrise logo on the tail and "Change we can believe in" painted on the sides -- the Middle East and Europe bound Obama campaign press plane was poised to lift off Sunday evening from Midway Airport to meet up with presumptive presidential Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) after he finishes visits to Afghanistan, Kuwait and Iraq.

Obama's newly reconfigured plane is divided into first class for the candidate and his closest advisors--such as strategist David Axelrod, who is on the flight; business class seats, occupied Sunday by foreign affairs advisors such as Denis McDonough and coach, where 41 journalists who are part of the traveling Obama press corps are seated.

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Sun-Times columnist and Washington Bureau Chief Lynn Sweet heads overseas in a newly painted 757 -- the Obama campaign's press plane -- to follow presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.).
(Lynn Sweet)

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