German newspaper: “Obama is the black JFK” - Obamania sweeps Europe
It is crystal clear that the world wants Obama to be the next US president. The reason is clear. Tom Fenton, CBS foreign correspondent for more than 40 years wrote:
A columnist in the conservative Daily Telegraph seemed to speak for most of the country when he wrote on Super Tuesday: “Today’s events are not just a matter for the Yanks, but for all of us, and I hope they inspire at least a season or two of thoughtfulness after what has seemed an age of spite.”
He was referring to the Bush administration, whose policies have created the biggest anti-American backlash abroad that I have seen in more than four decades as a foreign correspondent. When the Daily Telegraph talks about the United States as a “war-mongering nation,” you know that America has few friends left.
Check out the AP story:
BERLIN (AP) - Europe is about to give Barack Obama one of the grandest of stages for statesmanship. In this city where John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton all made famous speeches, Obama will find himself stepping into perhaps another iconic moment Thursday as his superstar charisma meets German adoration live in shadows of the Reichstag and the Brandenburg Gate. He then travels to Paris and London where he can expect to be greeted with similar adulation. It’s not only Obama’s youth, eloquence and energy that have stolen hearts across the Atlantic. …
For Europeans, perhaps, it isn’t just that Obama isn’t Bush but that he’s come to be seen as the “anti-Bush”—a figure who represents such a startling contrast to the outgoing president that there’s a sense the whole Washington power structure might be purged of much that Europeans see as wrong with American leadership….It’s difficult to gauge how race is playing out in European attitudes toward Obama, but there is no denying that color is a big ingredient of the Obama magic here. One German newspaper has anointed the candidate “Der Schwarze JFK”—the black JFK.
The conservative media is jealous as hell. NRO: “President Elect Obama”
heh
Can you imagine the tremendous let down the election of another Republican president would bring, not only in America but world-wide? It’s unthinkable.
WHO GIVES A DAMN!
William, do you really sit around worrying about how to please Europe?
Glen, It’s not just Europe, it’s Africa, Asia, and the rest of the world… you know, the world - that big place outside of Kingston Springs?
Can you imagine this again? I can’t. The world can’t.
William, when I get in the voting booth I say to myself “What is best for this country? What is best for the United States of America?” I never walk in there and say, “Gee, I wonder who the folks in socialist Western Europe or an African dictatorship wants to be my President?”
Obviously you do.
I agree with Thomas Sowell. Why would we want to be like Europe, or even care about what their polls say?
Maybe some people think, “what leader with make America great and a better partner in the world community, so as to boost our prosperity, increase allies against enemies, and promote both economic and political relationships?” The same party of the most hated president in American history - “last in his class” dope -John McSame?
Think clearly Glen. Again, it’s not just Europe, it’s the world.
France clearly can’t wait for Obama to be President so their economy can finally recover from Bill O’Reilly’s catastrophically successful international boycott of french fries.
One trick pony playing the only tune it knows, “Ain’t it awful”, on the worlds smallest violin.
you can tell glen dean has the world view of a person born and bred in dumbfuckistan. forget about what the world thinks as long as i can have my guns and god down here in white jesusland. thats how narrow these people think. john mccunt is dumber than bush if thats possible.
Besides William, those people are our enemies.
The great thing about this is, when it comes down to what actually matters, other countries don’t get to vote. I am not worried about what the citizens of other countries think; it is what their leaders think that matters.
I think why the focus is on what the world thinks is because this poll shows that Americans have more faith in McCain than Obama and that just doesn’t sit well with the liberals. Personally, all the candidates scare the hell out of me.