Even more positive news from Barack Obama’s trip to the Middle East: a new poll by Israel Radio shows, for perhaps the first time, Israelis preferring Obama to John McCain.
When asked “who would you rather see elected as the next president of the United States,” Obama bested John McCain by a 37-28 margin. While far [...]
In the build-up to what is probably the most anticipated American campaign speech ever held on foreign soil, one of Berlin’s main city magazines offered its readership cut-out American flags to wave at Barack Obama’s planned address.
The presumed Democratic nominee plans to arrive in the German capital on Thursday morning. Not much of his agenda [...]
If western Europeans could vote in November’s presidential election, Barack Obama, the 46-year-old Democratic senator, would be a shoo-in, according to a recent opinion poll conducted on behalf of Britain’s Daily Telegraph newspaper.
Seventy percent of Italians, 67 percent of Germans, 65 percent of the French and 49 percent of Britons would vote Obama.
This compared to [...]
“As long as nuclear weapons exist, we’ll retain a strong deterrent. But we will make the goal of eliminating all nuclear weapons a central element in our nuclear policy,” Obama said.
He added, “The danger … is that we are constantly fighting the last war, responding to the threats that have come to fruition, instead of [...]
President Bush, during a news conference on Tuesday, compared current-day Afghanistan to the war in Iraq in the height of its insurgency. In the process, he bolstered an argument that — of all people — Sen. Barack Obama has stressed on the campaign trail.
Link:Huffington Post
Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., told a Mississippi newspaper that he saw McCain, during a trip to Nicaragua led by former Sen. Bob Dole, R-Kan., grab an Ortega associate by his shirt collar and lift him out of his chair.
“I had many, many meetings with the Sandinistas,” McCain said. “I must say, I did not admire [...]
“It has the potential to be a big plus for Obama,” says a senior Republican who has advised several presidents over the years. “The American people know we are not liked overseas anymore, and it bothers them. People feel that Obama could help change that.”
To reinforce such an image, Obama is billing himself as a [...]
The bi-national survey, conducted by the Strategic Counsel for CTV and The Globe and Mail, showed that here in Canada, Obama was more admired than Prime Minister Stephen Harper — or any other national leader.
Link:CTV.ca
A black, liberal Democrat in the White House, with or without a Democratic-controlled Congress behind him, may not change the fundamentals of American society and politics - or American foreign policy, for that matter - but he will appear as different from George W. Bush as Mars is from Venus. And that will shake up [...]
