Global Interest in the 2008 Elections - Howard Fineman

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/07/05/Media_and_the_Election_A_Global_Perspective

Newsweek correspondent Howard Fineman remarks on the "paradox" of the international media's high level of interest in the 2008 Presidential election, even as America's global political and economic dominance may be on the wane.

-----


A panel discussion at the 2008 Aspen Ideas Festival featuring Christoph von Marschall, Ari Shavit, Edward Luce, Howard Fineman, moderated by John Fund.

Howard Fineman is Newsweek's senior Washington Correspondent and columnist, senior editor, and deputy Washington Bureau Chief. He is also the author of "Living Politics," a column that began and continues on MSNBC.com and Newsweek.com and is now featured in the print magazine. An award-winning writer, Fineman is also an NBC News Analyst, contributing reports to the network and its cable affiliates. The author of scores of Newsweek cover stories, Fineman's work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post and The New Republic. During the 2008 campaign, Fineman has interviewed candidates such as John McCain, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama, John Edwards and Rudy Giuliani.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• barack
• obama
• john
• mccain
• international
• world
• press
• news
• media
• abroad
• economy
• political
• fareed
• zakaria
• post
• american
• century
• foratv
• fora.tv
• fora
• tv

[4merCIA]

Americans are being forced to choose Obama by a process of elimination,just so the Socialists in this country will finally be appeased and get a Black president. McCain chose idiot Palin which immediately finished him off as a viable candidate-so we are left with no choice-we need to totally eliminate the Electoral College and we need to have the right to vote for whomever we wish and not be railroaded into choosing what they force on us.

[GHynson]

The Bushshit regime really F*@$^ed us over.

[ArcaneKarma]

"Tijo: Dont you think that their own citizens should give* just a bit of the credit? Just a bit"

*get

[ArcaneKarma]

barney: Im not European-American; Im just American. I may have a Eurocentric way of thinking, but Ill have nothing to do with white supremacy.

Tijo: Dont you think that their own citizens should give just a bit of the credit? Just a bit

[TijoKJose]

Russia, India, China, and Brazil grew, because they accepted American investment. Their governments were too incompetent to create economic growth. America should get all the credit.

[barneyhoot]

Ameirica will stay great as long as it stays european, otherwise it will simply become another mexico or brazil i.e. worthless shithole.

[okee7]

New nations will rise but America will stay great as long as sticks with its good old principles and not follow inward-looking policies propagated by right wing media personalities like Bill O'Rielly, Lou Dobbs etc.

Post war Japan, West Europe, puppet military governments were US beneficiaries and followed the US policy. America's contribution in the rise of Russia, India, China & Brazil is marginal and it cannot claim credit for this.

[neotropic9]

Maybe the world isn't watching the US elections because they think the US is important, as much as they are watching it because it is the best and most hilarious type of reality tv. This election is a huge joke. McCain's greatest strength is that he was tortured, while Palin learned everything she knows about leadership from her experience as a hockey mom, and everything she knows about foreign policy through binoculars pointed at Russia.