"McCain or Obama: What is the Turkish bet?
McCain or Obama: What is the Turkish bet?
Barçın YİNANÇEurope's Hope for Obama Presidency Likely to be Dashed
Rüdiger Lentz: In US presidential elections, Europeans tend to overwhelmingly support the Democratic candidate. Yet, Europe misplaced its bets in both 2000 and 2004. The qualities that Europeans value in a US president are not the same ones that matter to Americans. Europe should tone down its expectations, and come to terms with the possibility of another GOP presidency.McCain blasts Obama, breaks with Bush on energy
Republican John McCain launched his November election campaign for the White House on Tuesday with a searing attack on Democratic rival Barack Obama and a pledge to break with the energyClinton still fighting, even when the race is done
Hillary Clinton refused to surrender to Barack Obama in the Democratic race for the U.S. presidency on Tuesday or to acknowledge she had reached the end of the road in her bid for theFrench note 'global' Obama's lack of language skills
On the subject of international media reactions to Obama's win, Le Monde's Corine Lesnes practically swoons over the Illinois senator, placing him in the same category as Martin Luther King Jr. and Abraham Lincoln. Noting Obama's multinational family tree and appeal around the world, she also calls him America's first "global candidate." She can't help but note that "he doesn't speak any foreign languages (except Indonesian)," however.
What's on the post-Bush 'to do' list?
A close trans-Atlantic relationship is not inevitable
GEORGE Bush comes to Europe next week, on what is expected to be his last visit as president. Few tears will be shed on this side of the Atlantic. Now that it's clear that John McCain and Barack Obama will face off in the November election, Europe needs to focus on what it wants and needs from the relationship with America going forward.Overseas, Excitement Over Obama
LONDON, June 4 -- For much of the world, Sen. Barack Obama's victory in the Democratic primaries was a moment to admire the United States at a time when the nation's image abroad has been seriously damaged.Another theory about Hillary Clinton
Marc Ambinder seems pretty confident that Barack Obama won't pick Hillary Clinton to be his running mate. What's more, Ambinder reports, Clinton herself doesn't even really want the job, though she would take it if asked. But maybe she's secretly hoping, pace Howard Fineman, that Obama won't ask. After all, if she really believes Obama can't beat John McCain, she'd be better positioned to run in 2012 if she could hold herself out as "what might have been" than if she had been on the losing ticket. Just look at what happened to John Edwards.
MAIN FOCUS: Europe's take on Barack Obama | 05/06/2008
Barack Obama is as good as nominated as the Democratic candidate for the US presidential elections. He could well become the next American president. How does Europe's press view Obama's candidacy?
Obama nomination raises hopes in Europe
Senator Barack Obama's victory in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination in the US gave many European politicians the opportunity to express their wishes for the post-Bush era, although the candidate's views on trade policy appear to be of some concern to the Commission.Royal: Obama vs. Sarkozy
Expats on Obama
Several American expats in France have been spending their time dampening expectations about Barack Obama and taking occasional stabs at the French and American electorate:Did Obama backtrack on Jerusalem?
His campaign says no:
US presidential elections: time to lobby
US elections, including preceding primaries and caucuses, are extremely exciting. Without abusing the overused word "historic," I say that the election of the next US president is indeed of historic proportions.Barack Obama and US democracy
İlter TÜRKMENClinton suspends campaign, endorses Obama
By Blake Hounshell
Barack Obama and American Indians: “You will be on my mind every day I am in the White House”
A collection of three separate articles, and one video, in line with the intent of the previous post:
A Caribbean Love Affair with Obama? “We Need Barack! Jehovah Guide Him”
This is really an exciting time in which to be living, something like a rewind of 1968 combined with 1975 — the revolution of the forgotten peoples and the new social movements on the one hand, and the withdrawal of a bloodied empire and the departure of a criminal president on the other hand, along with an oil boom and economic crisis. It is as if we were living a daily J’ouvert.
