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British politicians squabble over Obama
Friday, November 14th, 2008 | Obama and the Dems | 2 Comments
Guardian piece by Paul Owen
David Lammy has attacked David Cameron’s attempts to claim common cause with Barack Obama in a piece in today’s New Statesman.
“I know Obama,” the higher education minister writes, adding of the US president-elect:
His political worldview is grounded in his experience as a community organiser. He has a deep-seated affinity with the people of Chicago’s South Side among whom he has worked. He understands their daily struggles and the dreams they hold for their children. For Cameron to claim common cause with Obama is absurd and demeaning.
At prime minister’s questions last Wednesday, a day after the US election result, both Cameron and Gordon Brown competed to attach themselves to the Obama bandwagon.
Obama as The Dark Knight
Sunday, November 9th, 2008 | TV and text | No Comments
Although Obama did not attempt to make race an issue during the US election, interest in the color of his skin has a wide-ranging audience. Already we have seen protests in Italy, after Prime Minister Berlusconi said Thursday that Obama is “young, handsome and even tanned.” (Italian students marched in the streets, but Berlusconi defended the statement, calling is “a great compliment” and asking “Why are they taking it as something negative? … If they have the vice of not having a sense of humor, worse for them,”). › Continue reading
A Special Relationship for 2009?
Sunday, November 9th, 2008 | Obama and the Dems | 2 Comments
By Isabel Jones
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