Entries from Byline Portal tagged with 'Election '08'
The Relay Race of Change
by Ellen Goodman, Washington Post, USA - Race was not "the issue" in this election. I know that. The issue was the economy. The issue was the war. The issue was the dark conviction that America was heading full speed...
Tempered Cheer for America's Next President
by Bronwen Maddox, Times Online, UK - The image of Barack, Michelle and their daughters, waving high, over the caption “President-elect”, changed the role of the US in the world. It showed that the US can confront the worst shadow...
Many Marvel at a Black President
by Dahleen Glanton and Howard Witt, Chicago Tribune, USA - It ranks as America's bedrock civics lesson and most enduring national fable: the notion that any child born a U.S. citizen can one day grow up to become president. And...
No Black America or White America
by Lola Adesioye, Guardian, UK - Obama spent his campaign emphasising similarities, not differences. He galvanised African-Americans, who turned out in record numbers, and white Americans, encouraging everyone to come together and vote for something and someone they believe in....
Obama Moved America Beyond Racial Politics
by Rachel L. Swarns, International Herald Tribune, France - In a country long divided, Obama had a singular appeal: He is biracial and Ivy League educated; a stirring speaker who shoots hoops and quotes the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr; a politician...
Win-Win Leadership
by Teresa S. Abesamis, Business World Online, Philippines - It is because he began his professional career as a community organizer in the urban poor areas of Chicago that Barack Obama, the incoming US president and world leader, did such...
When ‘Victory’ Seeds Betrayal
by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Arab Times, Kuwait - As the new US president, Barack Obama would at first have a honeymoon period with the Muslim world, a continuation, really, of the honeymoon he has already enjoyed as a black man...
Alison Smale: Missive from Old Europe to America in Transition
by Alison Smale, International Herald Tribune, France - On this American Election Day, so long anticipated and so keenly watched around the world, it seemed for once not out of place to make this a true Letter from Europe, a...
'The Huxtable Effect' and Obama
by Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, Brave New Films, USA - In all the talk about the supposed "Bradley effect" in this year's presidential election, I think big media have missed the much bigger story, which is to say few of them are...
A Big Gay Mormon Wedding
by Jeanne Carstensen, Salon, USA - The Church of Latter-day Saints has pumped millions into Proposition 8 to ban gay marriage. But for one devout family, the politics are personal....
How Can 30+ Million Women Be Invisible?
by Mable F. Yee, Women's Media Center, USA - How come no one ever hears about the Asian American women and other women of color who happen to number over 30 million citizens in the United States today? Perhaps it’s...
China Falls for Obama's 'US Dream'
by Antoaneta Bezlova, Asia Times, China - Despite Beijing's history of sound relations with Republican presidents from the United States, recent polls shows popular opinion is bucking the trend, with "hip and unconventional" Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama an...
Caribbean Hopeful about Obama
by Charlene Sharpe-Pryce, Jamaica Gleaner, Jamaica - The 'Obamalisation' being witnessed in the world is unprecedented and could represent the political and social change that was anticipated, but never realised, crossing into the 21st century. Enthusiasm abroad about Obama could...
Change Big Donors Can Believe In
by Amy Goodman, Truthdig, USA - Barack Obama broke records with recently announced September fundraising levels that exceeded all predictions, bringing in $150 million. Since Obama opted out of the public financing system, he can spend freely from his war...
If Ethiopians Could Vote!
by Bitania Firew, Addis Fortune, Ethiopia - The overwhelming support for Obama in Ethiopia is no different from the global result; if it was up to the rest of the world, Obama would have secured the presidency winning 90pc of...
Palin's Failin'
by Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal, USA - In the end the Palin candidacy is a symptom and expression of a new vulgarization in American politics. It's no good, not for conservatism and not for the country. And yes, it...
Colin Endorses Barack, All We Need Now Is Condi
by Melissa Harris-Lacewell, The Kitchen Table, USA - For Powell, Obama's election is critically important because Obama embodies the very ideal of American meritocracy. For those who believe that racism still exists, but is less of a barrier now than...
Doing Democracy Right
by Juliet Lapidos, Slate, USA - Why are other countries so much better at conducting elections than we are?...
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