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State of Play: Europe Reacts (Curiously) to Obama Victory

Started by washingtonindependent · 8 months ago

The overwhelming reaction in Europe to the election of Sen. Barack Obama has been one of enthusiasm and support. Yet a scan of the European press reveals some more peculiar, and at times deplorable, responses across the continent.
Der Spiegel reports on the shock that has rippled through the G ... Continue reading »

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  • Hawaiianstyle

    7 months ago

    I wouldn't want this gentleman to be in charge or or an influence in my dog training classes. They are important, let alone be a political commentator/figure.

    Generations are usually shamefully embarrassing (a very generous description), especially when they are about race.
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  • Hawaiianstyle

    7 months ago

    Somebody wake this man up. The nineteenth century is gone.
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  • Hawaiianstyle

    7 months ago

    Race, religion, the color of ones skin, the guy who has more than you, the guy that has less than you, and all the other irrelevant things small people worry about will never go away. However, at least for this one shining moment in the history of MY country we voted for the best man regardless.

    I would suggest to you, our European friends, that you should be grateful you don't have four more years of the same old Rogue nation Bush policies. It would be refreshing if you could overcome your envy/hate problems.

    With your help as an equal partner maybe we together could stop terrorism, increase trade, increase the exchange of ideas, and international aid, and aid to the hungry and the poor, and help to places like Darfur etc., etc., ETC.
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  • votingvet

    7 months ago

    Klaus Emmerich is an ignorant man whose comment is grotesquely parochial. Wolf Blitzer you say? Bill O'Reilly, more likely. As it becomes evident that Obama is not only "politically civilized" but cultured and smart, Herr Emmerich will, like O'Reilly, insist that he never said Obama couldn't succeed brilliantly and that his words were taken out of context. (Or maybe he's more like Hannity and Limbaugh, in which case he'll explain Obama's success as due to the white folks in his cabinet.)
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  • sammy

    7 months ago

    Ok..so this sick old dog is coming from the Nazi era...well i wanna tell (it) something..the world has changed since(Sieg Heil), and there is no place for people like you in todays world let alone todays media, so go eat your Würst,screw your daughter,lock your son in the basement, write (Neger raus) on the walls, elect FPÖ or BZÖ(Neo Nazi parties in Austria), and then go to bed and never wake up again, after all you are over 80 and you have lived enough already.......old Nazi trash
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