"Europe prepares for Obamania
“No one will keep us from seeing.” found in Amnesty International : Flag
Zakaria: How Obama Sees the World
He's been called a naive idealist. But in terms of foreign policy, he's the true realist in the race.Euro-tripping with Barack Obama
Barack Obama won't be speaking at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin after all, but his upcoming trip to Europe is still a huge deal.
What should the senator be thinking about before he goes? Here are a few diplomatic overtures I'd recommend:
Obama would need Turkey's cooperation' - Turkish Daily News Jul 16, 2008RTÉ News: Europe prepares for Obamania
Hear the one about Obama?
As Barack Obama prepared to leave for Europe this week, Americans fretted over why they can't seem to make jokes about him. One explanation is that he's just too...Top Obama Aide: No Free Ride for Europe
The Daily Telegraph interviewed Former Assistant Secretary of State Susan Rice ahead of Obama's world tour:
Europe will be challenged by a President Barack Obama to contribute more to global security and will no longer have the "easy out" of pandering to anti-Bush sentiment, according to a top adviser to the Democratic candidate.
As big as the Beatles?
A giddy Europe awaits Obama's visit
THE European press is full of long, anticipatory articles ahead of Barack Obama's visit next week. Writing in The Times of London, Gerard Baker captures the hysteria well:You have to go back to the Beatles' first US tour to find a transatlantic trip freighted with the sort of pregnant excitement that attends the one that Barack Obama is about to make next week.The faces of the crowds expected in Berlin when he arrives on Thursday will be portraits of the same devotional ecstasy that greeted the Liverpool quartet on their way from JFK to Manhattan that February day in 1964. In London next weekend Gordon Brown will play Ed Sullivan to the Fab One, hoping to borrow,
Comments
These are heady days over here too in Africa.... You can hardly start a conversation about anything international without hearing about Obama. Opinions range from Oh yea, of course he will win it! to Hmm... do you really think they will let a black man become America's president?
Posted by: Olumide Abimbola | July 21, 2008 09:42 AM
why not Olumide. This doesn't mean race problem will be solved. It will be a good step but of course it is not enough. We had a woman prime minister. This did not lead to more woman rights...
Posted by: Erkan | July 21, 2008 12:01 PM
Oh no... absolutely not! Those are not my opinions, I was only showing that opinions around here range from hopeful happiness to highly cynical.
Posted by: Olumide Abimbola | July 21, 2008 05:20 PM