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George W. Bush's hometown weekly The Lone Star Iconoclast has endorsed John Kerry for president. This peep of editorial sound and fury prompted numerous yeeha-folksy features from the campaign trail -- "They Don't Call It the 'Iconoclast' for Nothin'" a New York Times article wrote -- but it signifies not much. Or does it? The Iconoclast is not the first newspaper to tout Kerry. According to the Jerusalem Post, an Aug. 4 editorial in the Syria Times exhorted Arab-Americans not to make the same mistake they made in 2000 by throwing their support in 2004 to George W. Bush. This...

North Korea, favoring Kerry, unleashes anti-Bush rhetoric By James Brooke, New York Times SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea called President Bush an "imbecile" and "a tyrant that puts Hitler into the shade" yesterday, unleashing a stream of insults that seemed to rule out any serious progress on nuclear disarmament talks before the American election this fall. "The meeting of the working group for the six-party talks cannot be opened because the U.S. has become more undisguised in pursuing its hostile policy," a spokesman for North Korea's Foreign Ministry told the nation's state-controlled news agency. Preliminary talks were to be...

SEOUL North Korea called President George W. Bush an imbecile and a tyrant who puts Hitler in the shade, unleashing a stream of insults Monday that seemed to rule out any serious progress on nuclear disarmament talks before the American elections in November. [snip] "The North Koreans made it very clear, politely, that they want Mr. Kerry to win the election," said Kenneth Quinones, a former U.S. diplomat who was in Pyongyang this month for a Korean studies conference.

Pyongyang hinted last week that it might pull out of the next round, slated to be held next month, citing a hostile U.S. "smear campaign." With the U.S. presidential election approaching, some say Kim is stalling, hoping that John Kerry will win—and that the North will be able to get a better deal from a Democratic Administration.

More than once, John Kerry has told voters that a few unnamed foreign leaders prefer him to George W. Bush as the President of the United States. Even John Edwards has repeated the foreign endorsement theme. Recently, Democratic Senators Joseph Biden and Carl Levin returned from Europe telling America that unnamed European leaders (presumably the French and Germans) stand ready to put their full weight behind our efforts in Iraq only if John Kerry resides in the White House. It is puzzling that Democrats think Americans should be impressed that anti-American foreign leaders support Kerry. As dubious as Kerry's claims...

A member of the Koruba tribe from the state of Amazonas carries a poster with the name of US presidential candidate John Kerry (news - web sites) in a park in Brasilia, Brazil, Saturday, Aug. 21, 2004. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

"Save me from my friends. My enemies I can handle myself." That used to be one of my father's favorite sayings, and I must confess that when I was a child, it did not seem to make a whole lot of sense. It's only later you realize that not all friends are true friends. On the other hand, you can always be fairly certain who your enemies are. This may be a lesson that Sen. John Kerry still has to learn when it comes to our "friends" and "allies" in Europe. And conversely, Europeans who are positively salivating at the thought of...

John Kerry at the UNITY Conference (8/5/04)RealAudio For other formats, go to C-SPAN home page and select "Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) Remarks at UNITY Conference" under VIDEO/AUDIO "Recent Programs" in the middle of the page. Segment begins 49 minutes into the program, during the Q&A period (fast-forward player to direct location) shortly following the Michael Moore gaffe"I believe in my heart of hearts and in my gut that this president fails that test in Iraq. And I know this because I, personally, and others were deeply involved in the effort with other countries to bring them to the table. I...

"I believe in my heart of hearts and in my gut that this president fails that test in Iraq. And I know this because I, personally, and others were deeply involved in the effort with other countries to bring them to the table. I met with the Security Council of the United Nations in the week preceding the vote in the Senate."

Caracas.- President Hugo Chávez said today that a victory for Democrat John Kerry for the presidency of the US, will open up a new era in the relationship between the two countries, marked by continuous confrontation and hostility in recent years. "I believe that with Kerry a new era will open up in their relations with Venezuela, because there won't be the weight, the tension that we have had with the Bush administration", he said at a ceremony awarding licenses for gas development with directors of the US-based Chevron-Texaco. The president assured that his government had done nothing to damage...

Editorial Second Thoughts By: William W. Lawrence 08/03/2004The Democratic Convention is over. The way I look at, President Bush may just as well start packing. It appears that he does not have a chance to win in November.The Democrat presidential candidate is on record as saying, I've met foreign leaders who can't go out and say this publicly, but boy they look at you and say, you've got to win this, you've got to beat this guy, we need a new policy . . . things like that. Well, I decided to find out to whom Sen. Kerry was referring....

NEW YORK - It appears as though yet another foreign leader, (just one of several who Kerry refused to name), has chosen to endorse his candidacy. The Red Communists of China, and their official news outlet, the state run "People's Daily" formally endorsed the Democrat from Massachusetts for the race of President of the United States. The communist newspaper said in its endorsement, "(Sen. Kerry)...looks squarely at China's position and influence in Asia and the world at large, and he opposes the containment of China and stands for contacts with the country."

John Kerry has racked up three more "endorsements" from Latin America. Since Mr. Kerry says that as president he will be more engaged with the region, his Latin fan club deserves some attention. The most eye-popping Kerry endorsement last week came from Tómas Borge, one of the nine commandantes of Nicaragua's famed Sandinista revolution and perhaps the most feared. ... Mr. Borge of course has reason to like Mr. Kerry. The Massachusetts senator went to Nicaragua in 1985 to meet the Soviet-backed Sandinista leadership and worked hard in the U.S. Senate against President Reagan's efforts to defend U.S. security interests...

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon treats US President George W. Bush warmly, while his attitude toward Democratic candidate Senator John Kerry can be described as "cold", officials from Kerry's headquarters said. Sharon's attitude toward the two may have an effect on the vote of US Jews in the coming November elections, officials told Army Radio Thursday morning. Kerrry's people said that one example illustrating Sharon's "preference" is his avoiding meeting Kerry in the past. They added that vice premier Ehud Olmert, Sharon's right-hand man, had been quoted recently as saying, "Jews in America prefer Bush to Kerry." An official at the...

John Kerry has gained the support of the largest political party in the world. The official online news outlet for communist China, the People's Daily, endorsed the Senator from Massachusetts for President of the United States. "Comparatively speaking, Kerry is noted for being friendly with China. He was once firmly against linking the most-favored-nation status to China with human rights," stated an article on the U.S. Presidential race posted by the official Chinese Central Communist Party news outlet. "From a long-term view, a Democratic administration, which stresses international cooperation, pursues 'multilateralism' and stands for a policy of contacts, will be...

Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) - Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat is waiting out the U.S. presidential election in the hopes that George W. Bush will be voted out of office, the head of Israel's military intelligence said. Faced with growing internal unrest in the PA and among members of his Fatah faction, Arafat has nevertheless refused to implement meaningful security reforms as demanded by Egypt and the Quartet - the U.S., European Union, United Nations, and Russia. In remarks over the weekend, Arafat said there was no crisis in the PA. He said Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei, who tried to resign but...

THE concerns of foreigners don’t usually get much of a look-in in US presidential election campaigns. There aren’t many votes for a candidate who promises to make life more comfortable for French intellectuals or Latin American dairy farmers. Americans may have come quite a way since the world beyond their shores was (plucky Brits excepted) a snakepit of Commies, atheists and yellow-bellies, but selfconfidence that their way is essentially the right way is not much diminished. On the two coasts, it is true, there is a sizeable chunk of Democratic-voting, Sauvig-non-swilling, Goethe-reading opinion that blames America for most of the...

Kerry's true "Band of Brothers" are not his fellow Vietnam veterans. They are the those who would weaken America... the internationalists... the terrorists who would blame us for 'intervening.' The true friends of Kerry are all of those who want us to feel guilty for the fact that America is an exceptional nation, filled with individuals whose freedoms enable us to rise constantly higher.

IDF Military Intelligence chief Major General Aharon Ze'evi said Sunday that Arafat is biding his time until November, in hopes that U.S. President George W. Bush will lose his bid for re-election and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's government will fall by then, Army Radio reported.

Presumptive Democratic vice presidential nominee John Edwards says foreign leaders are "frustrated" with President Bush and want to see a new face in the White House – though he says they won't say so directly. "I was, just a few weeks ago … in Brussels at a NATO meeting with a whole group of NATO ambassadors and hearing their perspective on this," he told CNN's Larry King on his program last night. "I just believe that these countries around the world, whose cooperation and alliances we need, believe that in order for them to have a fresh start with America,...