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nytimes.com - 10/23/2008

Op-Ed Columnist - Rebranding the U.S. With Obama

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The other day I had a conversation with a Beijing friend and I mentioned that Barack Obama was leading in the presidential race: She: Obama? But he’s the black man, isn’t he? Me: Yes, exactly. She: But surely a black man couldn’t become president of the United States? Me: It looks as if he’ll be ...

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nytimes.com - 10/17/2008

Op-Ed Columnist - Let’s Get Fiscal

— nytimes.com — The Dow is surging! No, it’s plunging! No, it’s surging! No, it’s ... Nevermind. While the manic-depressive... stock market is dominating the headlines, the more important story is the grim news coming in about the real economy. It’s now clear that ... (more) Op-Ed Columnist - Let’s Get Fiscal

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nytimes.com - 10/17/2008

Op-Ed Columnist - Thinking About Obama

— nytimes.com — We’ve been watching Barack Obama for two years now, and in all that time there hasn’t been... a moment in which he has publicly lost his self-control. This has been a period of tumult, combat, exhaustion and crisis. And yet there hasn’t been a moment ... (more) Op-Ed Columnist - Thinking About Obama

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nytimes.com - 10/22/2008

Op-Ed Columnist - Moved by a Crescent

— nytimes.com — Colin Powell had been bugged by many things in his party’s campaign this fall: the insidious merging... of rumors that Barack Obama was Muslim with intimations that he was a terrorist sympathizer; the assertion that Sarah Palin was ready to be president; ... (more) Op-Ed Columnist - Moved by a Crescent

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Global standing and prestige matter
Political Animal — GLOBAL STANDING AND PRESTIGE MATTER.... The New York Times' Nicholas Kristof shares an anecdote in his column today about a conversation he had the other day with a friend in Beijing about Barack Obama. She was amazed to hear that Obama is leading in the polls because "surely a black man couldn't become president of the United States." As she perceives America, African Americans are primarily "janitors and laborers." Kristof explained that black people hold "all kinds of jobs," and Obama appears well positioned. The woman in Beijing wondered aloud whether white Americans ...

Tortured: America's Image in the World
democracyarsenal.org — The Washington Post reported today about a little quarrel between the U.S. and the U.K. over torture: The British High Court yesterday condemned the U.S. government's failure to turn over intelligence documents that could support the claims of a British resident held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who has argued that statements he made confessing to terrorism resulted from torture and are, therefore, worthless. In a judgment, the British jurists hinted that unless the 42 documents are handed over quickly to the defense counsel as part of a habeas corpus proceeding in U.S. District Court, the London court might take that step itself, ...

What an amazing country!
Oliver Willis — Nicholas Kristof in the NY Times The other day I had a conversation with a Beijing friend and I mentioned that Barack Obama was leading in the presidential race: She: Obama? But he’s the black man, isn’t he? Me: Yes, exactly. She: But surely a black man couldn’t become president of the United States? Me: It looks as if he’ll be elected. She: But president? That’s such an important job! In America, I thought blacks were janitors and laborers. Me: No, blacks have all kinds of jobs. She: What do white people ...

A Global Pivot?
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — Nicholas Kristof sees what I saw in Obama last fall: We’re beginning to get a sense of how Barack Obama’s political success could change global perceptions of the United States, redefining the American “brand” to be less about Guantánamo and more about equality. This change in perceptions would help rebuild American political capital in the way that the Marshall Plan did in the 1950s or that John Kennedy’s presidency did in the early 1960s...A 22-nation survey by the BBC found that voters abroad preferred Mr. Obama to Mr. McCain in every single country — by four to one over all. Nearly half of those ...

Journalistic Swoon
Taylor Marsh — ... , for whom the Obama election is a national referendum on racism; the New York Times’ Nicholas D. Kristof, for whom an Obama presidency is an opportunity to "rebrand" our nation and "find a path to restore America’s global influence"; ...