http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/eurotwitsforkerry/ en-us Fri, 11 Dec 2009 23:30:07 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405784/posts Passion Fades for Barack Obama, The Perfect Poster Boy Like many others, I fell for Barack Obama somewhere in the middle of Bush's second term, writes Gill Hornby. By Gill Hornby 11 Dec 2009 I've probably been in denial for a few months now. Turning a blind eye, trying not to overreact to the little things, even though all the signs were there. But now it might just be time to face up to it. Another political love affair is over. Another one has let me down. President Obama's acceptance speech at the Nobel Prize ceremony wasn't the last straw,... Telegraph(UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405784/posts#comment Fri, 11 Dec 2009 23:30:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2391661/posts Germans don't want KSM or the other turds to die. FoxNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2391661/posts#comment Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:32:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2222505/posts Europe melts for Michelle By: Nia-Malika Henderson and Jonathan Martin April 4, 2009 06:33 PM EST He was cool and understated, the slightest bit aloof. She choked up as she told young minority girls to follow their dreams. He gave speeches. She gave hugs. And while Barack Obama came to Europe as the American president, Michelle Obama came as something entirely different – almost an American tourist, but the kind even jaded Europeans could love, big-hearted, curious, sophisticated yet accessible. They simply melted for Michelle. Of course, the Europeans were eager to gush over a First Couple not named Bush.... The Politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2222505/posts#comment Sun, 5 Apr 2009 00:01:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2221677/posts STRASBOURG, France – Welcomed with thunderous cheers, President Barack Obama pledged on Friday to repair damaged relations with Europe, saying the world came together following the 2001 terrorist attacks but then "we got sidetracked by Iraq." "We must be honest with ourselves," Obama said. "In recent years, we've allowed our alliance to drift." The new U.S. president said that despite the bitter feelings that were generated by Iraq, the United States and its allies must stand together because "al-Qaida is still a threat." At a town-hall style gathering before a French and German audience, Obama also encouraged a skeptical Europe... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2221677/posts#comment Fri, 3 Apr 2009 18:01:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2138844/posts As a result of the historic election of Barack Obama in the U.S., other countries have started wondering whether a similar occurrence would be possible in their nations — none more so than the Obama-worshiping United Kingdom. Its press, race industry, and political classes are all aflutter about whether or not it would be possible for a minority to become prime minister of the country. Many doubt that a minority could make it to 10 Downing Street any time soon..... Pajamas Media http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2138844/posts#comment Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:07:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2135511/posts Over the past two weeks the outpouring of British newspaper, radio, and television punditry has been staggering in volume. Staggering in variety? No. One theme that seems to obsess British journalists has been a grim, humorless regurgitation of the most negative aspects of American history. My very left-wing friends may have complained that they lived in a “police state” under the present administration, but the fact that President Bush has not declared martial law, or that police and army did not deploy to massacre the crowds in Grant Park on election night, puts paid to any notion that the United... Pajamas Media http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2135511/posts#comment Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:02:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2129631/posts Nobody is happier about the election of Barack Obama to the Presidency of the United States than the folks at the United Nations. It is as if they finally discovered kryptonite, and Superman will soon be disabled. The U.N. is an uncomplicated place. Every sick, unsatiated tyrant, European has-been, or miserable wretch brainwashed about the Great Satan wants to take America down – unless they are able to immigrate of course. Their modus operandi? The United Nations. The beauty of it, from the perspective of the majority, is that Americans are paying for their own demise. Americans are even convinced... National Review Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2129631/posts#comment Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:08:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2129406/posts Reaction in Britain to Barack Obama’s victory has been predictable, given that the country leads Europe and much of the world in knee-jerk anti-Americanism — which, more often than not, is actually anti-Republicanism — and is also consumed with its own version of white guilt (post-colonial in our case), and entranced by notions of multiculturalism. Commentators have obsessed over the racial aspects of the election, and have expended so much energy gloating over the demise of George Bush that you’d think that it was he, and not McCain, whom Obama had defeated. But a few pundits have managed to control... Pajamas Media http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2129406/posts#comment Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:44:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2127223/posts Hamburg, Germany ---------------------- Milan,Italy ---------------------- Geneva, Switzerland ---------------------- Washington DC, USA ---------------------- Obama,Japan ---------------------- Rome,Italy ---------------------- Paris, France ---------------------- Jakarta, Indonesia ---------------------- Honk Kong, China ---------------------- Various http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2127223/posts#comment Thu, 6 Nov 2008 19:59:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2126276/posts PARIS – Barack Obama's election as America's first black president unleashed a renewed love for the United States after years of dwindling goodwill, and many said Wednesday that U.S. voters had blazed a trail that minorities elsewhere could follow. People across Africa stayed up all night or woke before dawn to watch U.S. history being made, while the president of Kenya — where Obama's father was born — declared a public holiday. In Indonesia, where Obama lived as child, hundreds of students at his former elementary school erupted in cheers when he was declared winner and poured into the courtyard... AP via Yahoo! News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2126276/posts#comment Wed, 5 Nov 2008 20:21:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2126349/posts VIENNA, Austria -- She was a stranger, and she kissed me. Just for being an American. It happened on the bus on my way to work Wednesday morning, a few hours after compatriots clamoring for change swept Barack Obama to his historic victory. I was on the phone, and the 20-something Austrian woman seated in front of me overheard me speaking English. Without a word, she turned, pecked me on the cheek and stepped off at the next stop. Nothing was said, but the message was clear: Today, we are all Americans. For longtime U.S. expatriates like me - someone... Miami Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2126349/posts#comment Wed, 5 Nov 2008 21:35:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2126439/posts CNN) -- Europe's expectations of a Barack Obama presidency are vibrant, vast and probably incapable of fulfillment by any president, let alone one who will come to office in the middle of a worldwide economic crisis and with huge, unfinished business in Iraq and Afghanistan. There is no doubting the buzz and the optimism that the election victory of an African-American candidate has brought. Most in Europe are instinctively America's friends and, after the unilateralism of the Bush years, they want to have something to love about America again. Obama's arrival, they hope and believe, will give them that opportunity.... CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2126439/posts#comment Wed, 5 Nov 2008 23:12:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2122698/posts In the week leading up to the presidential election in the United States, the British media have been ramping up their disapproval of Sarah Palin, their adoration of Barack Obama, and their collective contempt for the American electorate. In the Guardian of October 28, George Monbiot trashes everything he can conjure up and concludes America is a vast wasteland of uneducated nincompoops. (Watch out, George: your long diatribe, which has already attracted the ire even of lefty bloggers, may backfire and cause millions of swing voters to go for McCain, as Ohioans did in 2004 when the Guardian mocked the... Pajamas Media http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2122698/posts#comment Sun, 2 Nov 2008 18:48:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2122708/posts Story Highlights Giant effigy of Sarah Palin blown up at fireworks display in southern England Caricature destroyed as part of traditional celebrations in town of Battle Event believed to date back to 1646 BATTLE, England (CNN) -- Townsfolk in England have delivered their explosive verdict on Sarah Palin, stuffing a giant effigy of the U.S. Republican vice presidential nominee with fireworks and blowing her up to raucous cheers. The unusual display was the climax of an annual bonfire celebration Saturday in the southern town of Battle, where political figures are a favorite target of a local tradition that sees a... cnn http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2122708/posts#comment Sun, 2 Nov 2008 19:06:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2116005/posts UNITED NATIONS -- There are no "Obama 2008" buttons, banners or T-shirts visible here at U.N. headquarters, but it might be difficult to find a sliver of territory in the United States more enthusiastic over the prospect of the Illinois senator winning the White House. An informal survey of more than two dozen U.N. staff members and foreign delegates showed that the overwhelming majority would prefer that Sen. Barack Obama win the presidency, saying they think that the Democrat would usher in a new agenda of multilateralism after an era marked by Republican disdain for the world body. Obama supporters... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2116005/posts#comment Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:31:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2115427/posts <p>UNITED NATIONS -- There are no "Obama 2008" buttons, banners or T-shirts visible here at U.N. headquarters, but it might be difficult to find a sliver of territory in the United States more enthusiastic over the prospect of the Illinois senator winning the White House.</p> Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2115427/posts#comment Sun, 26 Oct 2008 03:28:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2113692/posts It's hardly a secret that Barack Obama is Europe's favorite U.S. presidential candidate. But a new poll shows that in France, just 1 percent of people think John McCain should win the White House. By contrast, 78 percent back Obama, while 5 percent don't want either to win. According to Reuters, the poll found the five largest Europeans countries were unanimously behind Obama in the U.S. race. Fox http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2113692/posts#comment Fri, 24 Oct 2008 01:38:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2113613/posts PARIS (Reuters) - Just one percent of French people want Republican candidate John McCain to win the U.S. presidential election, and western Europeans overwhelmingly favor his rival Barack Obama, an opinion poll showed on Friday. McCain's campaign derided Obama as a celebrity akin to Paris Hilton after the Democratic nominee toured Europe and gave a speech to a huge crowd in Berlin this summer. The Harris Interactive survey suggested the Republican would have struggled to draw such a large audience there if he had tried to. Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2113613/posts#comment Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:49:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2111053/posts There are all sorts of reasons for hoping that Barack Hussein Obama will be the next president of the United States. He seems highly intelligent. He has an air of courtesy and sincerity. Unlike the current occupant of the White House, he has no difficulty in orally extemporising a series of grammatical English sentences, each containing a main verb. Unlike his opponent, he visibly incarnates change and hope, at a time when America desperately needs both. Telegraph.co.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2111053/posts#comment Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:31:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2111235/posts Gallup Polls conducted in 70 countries from May to September 2008 reveal widespread international support for Democratic Sen. Barack Obama over Republican Sen. John McCain in the U.S. presidential election. Among these nations, representing nearly half of the world's population, 30% of citizens say they would personally rather see Obama elected president of the United States, compared with just 8% who say the same about McCain. At the same time, 62% of world citizens surveyed did not have an opinion. World citizens are more divided over whether the outcome of the U.S. election makes a difference to their country, with... Gallup http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2111235/posts#comment Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:04:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2111422/posts LONDON – The mayor of London, a member of the British political party that is a traditional ally of U.S. Republicans, says Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama "visibly incarnates change and hope, at a time when America desperately needs both." In an article for Tuesday's edition of The Daily Telegraph newspaper, London Mayor Boris Johnson of the center-right Conservative Party was blunt in his assessment of President Bush's legacy and how an Obama presidency would break from it. Johnson's endorsement of the Democratic candidate came after McCain declared in a radio address Saturday that "socialist leaders" in Europe admire Obama.... AP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2111422/posts#comment Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:44:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2109323/posts For Conservatives, the choice is obvious: it has to be Barack Obama By Daniel Hannan Last Updated: 12:01am BST 19/10/2008 Sometimes it's worth stating the obvious. The election of a mixed-race president who opposed Iraq from the beginning would substantially restore America's reputation in the world. (snip) True, Obama would be a decorative rather than a functional president, but what is the problem with that (snip) Which former president does Obama cite, by contrast? Ronald Reagan, arguably the greatest occupant of his office since Lincoln. That's the clincher. Daily Telegraph (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2109323/posts#comment Sun, 19 Oct 2008 06:09:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2108206/posts It is for the American people to choose the next president of the United States. Anyone who is not a citizen should proffer advice on the question only with the greatest humility and tact. The price paid in money or in blood for the decisions of the president falls mainly, even if not exclusively, on Americans. And the nuances of political discussion, so important in selecting leaders, are often hard for outsiders to grasp. Yet it would be naive to think that readers of a British newspaper have no stake in the outcome of the contest between Barack Obama and... TimesOnline http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2108206/posts#comment Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:29:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2108556/posts A former head of MI5 today describes the response to the September 11 2001 attacks on the US as a "huge overreaction" and says the invasion of Iraq influenced young men in Britain who turned to terrorism. In an interview with the Guardian, Stella Rimington calls al-Qaida's attack on the US "another terrorist incident" but not qualitatively different from any others. "That's not how it struck me. I suppose I'd lived with terrorist events for a good part of my working life and this was as far as I was concerned another one," she says. In common with Dame Eliza... guardian.co.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2108556/posts#comment Sat, 18 Oct 2008 01:55:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102936/posts WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - Sen. Barack Obama is the preferred U.S. presidential candidate in all 22 nations polled for the BBC World Service by the University of Maryland and Globescan. “We did this same poll in 2004 and most of the countries went for Sen. Kerry. We felt there would be a more even split this time. We felt people would see improvements with either candidate. We were surprised to see that people thought problems would improve with Sen. Obama,” Dr. Stephen Kull told The Final Call“ The Bush policies have affected worldwide opinion. (John) McCain is seen as a continuation... finalcall.com News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102936/posts#comment Sat, 11 Oct 2008 04:59:30 GMT