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Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Europeans promote Obama over McCain
The European media is doing all it can to try to persuade Americans to vote for their fave candidate — Barack Obama.
On Wednesday, Michael Tomasky, the editor of Guardian America, called John McCain the biggest liar in modern history. He says that the same Wall Street that McCain wants to crack down on “is not only the place he’s never wanted to regulate in his career but is also the place that he also thought just recently should be handling Americans’ pension accounts.”
Also in the Guardian, columnist Jonathan Freedland recently warned that “the world’s verdict will be harsh if America rejects the man it yearns for.” He said that an America that disdains Obama because of his global support risks turning anti-Bush feelings into something far worse.
He warns: “Until now, anti-Americanism has been exaggerated and much misunderstood: outside a leftist hardcore, it has mostly been anti-Bushism, opposition to this specific administration. But if McCain wins in November, that might well change. Suddenly Europeans and others will conclude that their dispute is with not only one ruling clique, but Americans themselves. For it will have been the American people, not the politicians, who will have passed up a once-in-a-generation chance for a fresh start - a fresh start the world is yearning for.”
Germany’s Der Spiegel newspaper also cautions that McCain has moved worryingly to the right. It praises Obama for shoring up his foreign policy credentials with the choice of Joe Biden.
Foreigners hope their approval might sway American voters to cast their ballot for Obama.