Kuwait Times says:
Barack Obama will bring a careful, deliberative style to the White House that differs from President George W Bush's tendency to rely more heavily on his gut instincts.
(They just used a Reuters article).
Rooz Online (Dissident Iranian publication) (quoting others):
Iran’s former Majlis Speaker Gholam-Ali Haddad Adel said that the election of Barack Obama indicated the defeat of American policies across the world, and added, “Americans are forced to make changes in their policies because of the quagmire created by Bush. This victory is the reality of American failure across the world.” Fars news agency which quoted Adel reminded its readers that, “Obama entered the race with the rhetoric that we need change and the victory of this call is the acknowledgement of the American nation that Bush’s policies in the world have failed.”
Bigoted Pundit in UAE thinks Obama is doomed to be the next Jimmy Carter:
Let’s be clear that if the economy had not gone as badly as it did, people wouldn’t have panicked so much and reached out for big government to reorganise the national finances. Obama has made history and become the first half-white President of the United States partly because of around 100 greedy collaterised debt obligation product traders, salesmen and investment bankers spread around the world.
Interestingly a British friend in the Middle East says that the Gulf countries the favored President was McCain because the image of a black man rising to become the most powerful man in the world rattles Arab royalty who have their own subjects.
The News, Pakistan:
Against this backdrop there comes a new president, a man who is already indicating that he may be doing business with the Muslim world differently to his predecessor. A letter to Mr Obama from President Ahmadinejad of Iran hoped that the new US government "can distance itself from present statesman's wrong approaches" – a clear reference to President Bush. The reply from president-elect Obama when asked about this at a news conference on Friday was that "We are reviewing the letter" – which in diplomatic terms was as much as he was ever going to be able to say
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The article is called "A Fresh Breeze."
Egypt's al masry alyoum talks about America's other face:
People in Egypt, the Arab and Islamic World and perhaps the entire planet have many reasons to hate America.
For us, the main reason is its continuous bias toward Israel administration after administration, its invasion of Lebanon and lately of Iraq, and its tight grip on the planet since its victory in the Second World War.
Since then, this country has been in all countries worldwide, from Korea and Vietnam in the East to Latin America in the West.
Many intellectuals blame the US for spreading its superficial culture throughout the world, such as exciting but unhealthy fast food, its horrible music and its relying on human instincts.
As for scientists, they blame America more than any other country for exposing the Earth to danger because of its lavish consumption of the planet's limited resources. It is also the main country accused of causing the greenhouse effect, which it seems will play havoc from the North Pole to the South one.
America is a country with almost a third of the global wealth and the world relies on one single main currency, namely the US dollar. This makes the whole global economy hostage of no one's decisions, measures, and traditions.
Over the last few weeks, the weakness of the US economy has infected all economies worldwide and caused them to totter.
One could go on like this till the end of this article. Yet, America has another face and perhaps this is the secret reason why it attracts so many people who curse it on the one hand and try to go, learn and work there on the other.
First of all, the US can change. Perhaps the Americans have listened to the many curses leveled at them from abroad during the Bush administration. On the other hand, they knew they were the ones who had elected him.
Finally Mauritanian twins named after Obama and McCain. (Though their real names are Hassan and Hossein).
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