I have a lot of friends and family abroad and the day after Obama was announced the President-elect I got several emails from them commenting on our new president. My Norwegian friend said "maybe the whole world won't hate you anymore!" and she tells me often the dislike her country has for Bush which by the way she describes it rivals ours. So I just thought it was interesting to do a search for news articles concerning our election in other countries, like this one by the Prime Minister of Norway. If you go to Google news you can pick which country you want news articles from although not all of them offer English settings. There are some funny articles from Google España for anyone speaking Spanish...
Edit: For anyone who gets the San Francisco Chronicle look at the front and back cover of the front section today (sunday). It is exactly what I was looking for when I made this post last night, it shows a ton of front pages from newspapers around the world. The Chronicle publishes most of their articles free online as well but I couldn't find this particular one.
Here is another interesting link though concerning Obama and the President of Russia.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/09/MNG514152T.DTL
Saturday, November 8, 2008
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There's another guy from overseas who really liked seeing Obama be elected: Iranian President Ahmadinejad. He even sent a letter of congratulations. This is guy is seen as an enormous threat to the United States, who doesn't believe in the holocaust and probably wants to destroy Israel and he's congratulating our next president? Is this good or bad?
(You can find the full text of the letter to Obama at http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=181859)
i just talked to my friend for Norway and he said that first off almost everyone there hated Bush because he was so war oriented. He put alot of emphasis on Bush still going on with the war even when the UN disagreed. Also he blames the bad economy on Bush also and he says that it effected him also, in Norway.
On the topic of Obama being president he said that he wouldn't have cared if McCain became president because he lives in Norway, but he is happier that Obama won because he think thats Obama will be better at fixing the economy :]
interesting :]
I'm not surprised that most foreign nations are happy about Obama being elected; Bush was not that great of a leader. Respect for our country has gone completely down. And if people from NORWAY are saying that Bush was bad leader, then he REALLY must have been.
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