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Europeans promote Obama over McCain
The European media is doing all it can to try to persuade Americans to vote for their fave candidate — Barack Obama.
On Wednesday, Michael Tomasky, the editor of Guardian America, called John McCain the biggest liar in modern history. He says that the same Wall Street that McCain wants to crack down on “is not only the place he’s never wanted to regulate in his career but is also the place that he also thought just recently should be handling Americans’ pension accounts.”
Also in the Guardian, columnist Jonathan Freedland recently warned that “the world’s verdict will be harsh if America rejects the man it yearns for.” He said that an America that disdains Obama because of his global support risks turning anti-Bush feelings into something far worse.
He warns: “Until now, anti-Americanism has been exaggerated and much misunderstood: outside a leftist hardcore, it has mostly been anti-Bushism, opposition to this specific administration. But if McCain wins in November, that might well change. Suddenly Europeans and others will conclude that their dispute is with not only one ruling clique, but Americans themselves. For it will have been the American people, not the politicians, who will have passed up a once-in-a-generation chance for a fresh start - a fresh start the world is yearning for.”
Germany’s Der Spiegel newspaper also cautions that McCain has moved worryingly to the right. It praises Obama for shoring up his foreign policy credentials with the choice of Joe Biden.
Foreigners hope their approval might sway American voters to cast their ballot for Obama.
Comments
By dittohead
September 17, 2008 9:29 AM | Link to this
Why is this story……even a story…..bet Castro supports Obama, too.
By dittohead
September 17, 2008 10:37 AM | Link to this
Sooooo. in addition to listening to the army of liberal “talking heads” in the US,, Americans are suppose to also take the unsolicited advice of European “talking heads” also. Thanks but no thank to socialism
By DB
September 24, 2008 9:53 AM | Link to this
When the rest of the world can take care of itself without running to America every time it hits a speedbump, then MAYBE we will listen to their opinion. In the meantime, they can keep yapping all they want — but THEY don’t vote.
And, frankly, they’re right — the fact that they are endorsing Obama makes Obama an even MORE unpalatable candidate in my eyes. Bush has stayed true to his convictions and intentions to protect America from 9/11/2001 onward, and that kind of dogmatic determination has left a sour taste in the mouth of countries such as France and Russia, who sold to Iraq in spite of international embargos. They want someone inexperienced they can twist around and influence — no wonder they want Obama! McCain sat in a communist POW camp for years rather than be bullied — if I were a head of state in Europe, I’d be nervous about him, too!
By Stephanie
September 26, 2008 12:47 PM | Link to this
Let’s be sure and ignore the opinions of foreigners because WE’RE AMERICAN’S AND WE DON’T NEED NOBODY CAUSE WE CAN DO IT ALL OURSELVES…WE ARE GOD!! Nevermind the fact that they are making a very valid point. As for Socialism…why not? Nothing else has worked for us. I’d rather poor and still have everything I need than a transient rebel.
By bsc
October 8, 2008 10:24 PM | Link to this
So, Stephanie wants socialism. That sounds like the old addage “Rather Red than Dead”. Same connotation. NO WE DO NOT WANT SOCIALISM. I do not want to work and give my money that I earned to some worthless so in so that sits on the porch and does nothing but drink beer and breed babies………let them go to work too. Take your socialism and go to Cuba, Russia, any place but the USA.
By cb
October 9, 2008 1:03 AM | Link to this
Who cares what the world thinks of America? We support the UN. We take care of every disaster. We send missionaries around the world. We basically feed the world. We do everything FOR THE WORLD…..yet they do not appreciate us. All I can say is not printable in this medium. I wish we could tell them to go straight to and not return. I really do not care about the rest of the world. Not the Christian attitude, but, this turning the other cheek is getting old.