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| Around the world, leaders have mostly greeted the election of Barack Obama with enthusiasm, some of which is routine “congratulations to the new guy” you’d get with any U.S. election and some of which is no doubt informed by exhaustion with the President Bush years and a sincere appreciation of the unique accomplishment of Obama, as well as his more collaborative-sounding agenda on the international front. But not everyone is just offering friendly words; a few countries are lining up with demands. ThinkProgress.org has the lengthiest rundown. Spain’s president expects “a more fluid and positive relationship” under Obama, no doubt a reference to some feuding with Bush over Iraq. Germany’s chancellor has had fairly close relations with Bush, but even she envisioned “closer and more trusting cooperation between the United States and Europe.” But as I said, a few world leaders have already communicated their expectations. Afghanistan’s president said: “The fight against terrorism cannot be fought in our country, rather, our country is a victim of terrorism and we demand for civilian casualties to be eliminated.” Obama’s remarks about the need to cut down on those casualties and do more than military intervention were of course a subject of some controversy after Republicans made a political issue out of it. Russia’s president didn’t congratulate Obama at all, and aside from a vague expression of hope that Obama could improve relations between the two countries, Russia’s primary response was to announce its intention to station missiles near Poland in response to U.S. missile defense plans for Europe – plans that Obama has been decidedly cool toward. Israeli and Palestinian leaders expressed a desire to see Obama bring peace in the Middle East. Even the upbeat European Union was hinting at some potential conflict, as one of its officials said she would be in touch with Obama to “make sure we are working together on opening free trade,” arguably the area of Obama’s policies that makes Europe most nervous. A few countries were decidedly cool about the election of Obama. Other countries hinted more vaguely at hoping Obama would work with the world on the international financial crisis, energy, terrorism, food shortages, global warming and more than a few other subjects. |
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| 4 Comments |
| Tara- "deal with it"? Last time i looked we were a democracy of laws enabling us to peacefully transend from one president to another. Sorry to see your small mind stil in the gutter. Your lack of grace as a winner reflects the common response of many liberals to an alternate viewpoint. Sad. As for get used to it, never will i get used to a marxist leaning leader in this country. It violates every tenent of our constitution. And i do fear an attempt to disenfranchise half of all american citizens who hold traditional american values. Enjoy the storm of reasonable critical commentary coming your way as President elect Obama caves in to the radical elements of the democratic party. Now that will be fun to be on the other end of the stick. Batter up! | ||
| pat | Homepage | E-Mail | 11.11.2008, 20:38 | ||
| What a typical "conservative" sour grapes diatribe! Hardly unexpected, since your candidate crashed and burned like the planes he flew... I doubt your admonishment of the American people didn't include the word "stupid" when you elected George Bush into office, but perhaps back then it was true about stupid war-like conservatives. Barack Obama will have alot on his plate ,true, but he won't disappoint. Better yet, now that Obama is in office the world will be able to evaluate us on a different level from the old white men we've elected before. His unique accomplishments (allow me to help inform those who seem to be myopic enough to ignore them) include the fact that he is the first and to date, only, President-elect and Democratic candidate of the United States with both European and African heritage. He did not accomplish this goal by being "about Obama", he did it by being cool, calm, collected, and reasonable under pressure, unlike McCain who immediately cancelled his campaign to skip off to Washington so he could have a minimal impact on anyone. And every day now that passes I thank God we didn't elect that unremarkable, inexperienced, ethics-violator Sarah Palin into office to screw up the country when McCain becomes incapacitated. Obama inspired more young people to vote, which is why his electoral votes were more than TWICE those of McCain's. So suck it up, conservatives. I'll tell you what you told us back when you elected that idiot Bush into office - DEAL WITH IT. |
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| Tara | Homepage | E-Mail | 06.11.2008, 21:38 | ||
| Good lord, America is sinking into the sunset and thanks to Obama's promise to "change the world" the world has first crack at demands before the people who elected him do. Not a big surprise. Obama is about Obama not America. We're just a stepping stone like Rev. Wright, Tony, Bill and the rest who have his footprints on their foreheads. As anyone could have guessed since 40% of American's or people in America I guess I should say, don't pay federal income tax, he won by that much and throw in a percentage for just being stupid liberals and there you go - Obama wins. I guess those 40% not only see not paying federal income taxes but slobber at the thought of $1,000.00 more at the end of the year for having sucked off the systems. Reward bad behavior - good move Obama, got you elected. | ||
| Maggie | Homepage | E-Mail | 06.11.2008, 06:42 | ||
| what unique accomplishments of Obama? his accomplishments as a community organizer? lol. or as Acorn's lawyer? or his unremarkable career of 140 days as Illinois Senator? please fill me. what accomplishments? | ||
| Michael | Homepage | E-Mail | 06.11.2008, 05:56 | ||