"America is electing a new president, but for the Germans, for Europeans, it is electing the next world leader," said Alexander Rahr, director of the German Council on Foreign Relations. (Associated Press, November 4, 2008)
Do you ever wonder what the world is thinking about this election?
Here is a quote from The Times online(UK):
...........................Barack Obama goes into today’s vote with the overwhelming backing of the world beyond America’s borders in a presidential race that has gripped audiences like no election before.
The rest of this article is called:
US elections: the world has no vote but it knows who it wants
Kenya -- Obama's Kenyan home ready to party
United Kingdom -- Barack Obama's grandmother cast ballot in one of her final acts
UK Reporting on Kenya:
An everyday quotation from Kenyan writer, Sebastien Berger in Kisumu, for the Telegraph.uk in Britain highlights, I think, the hope that Obama brings to people all over the world:
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In a printing shop in Kisumu, the capital of Senator Obama's ancestral home province in Kenya, Jumah George had no doubts about the election result even before the polls opened. He had brought in a rugby shirt to have Mr Obama's image imposed on it. "I don't want it to say 'for president', I want it to be 'president'," he said.
China -by Zhao Yi, Ge Xiangwen, Hu Fang Americans turn out in droves to cast ballot
Austrailia - Sydney Daily News - A world of policy differences -- this is a different to read, more objective approach to evaluating differences between the candidates. I like this quotation:
Obama is disciplined, deliberate and cerebral. His
intellectual curiosity would be welcome after eight years of a president with
little patience for meetings, who interrupts those who brief him with lines such
as "speed it up - this isn't my first rodeo".
Asia One News: 8 reasons why Obama will win
India: The Times Of India America's finest hour: Regime change...in time, by vote this one has some interesting "information" that I have seen no where before -- but ends with this:
It still boggles the imagination -- that could soon be reality -- that the 44th US president may be an African-American son of a Kenyan exchange student.Nigeria - by Bolaji Akinyemi - The Obama in us and the us in Obama
Ireland - Irish Bookmaker Pays Early on Obama Election Win - October 17th, it was so sure, they already paid the people who placed their bests on Obana! (One person placed a best more than $130,000!).
Netherlands - Dutch in Netherlands root for Obama
Facinating site: The Irish Betting site has dedicated a site to our American Elections -- I can't figure out how odds work. Right now the Presidential election (betting) is closed (looks like the odds were 1/20 when they closed and paid off in October). But you can still bet on Ohio, Missouri, Indiana -- and 13 others. You can bet on what time Mr. McCain will make his consession speech.