08-11-05 World greets Obama's Victory with Happiness
Press comments from all over the world about the Obama victory
Game Over For McCain and Bush, Obama Wins US Election
Press comments from all over the world about the Obama victory.
Even countries that are not well disposed towards America are mainly giving positive reactions.
Pravda, Russia
A change for the better
Only Evil power would have been worse than the Bush regime. Therefore it could be argued that the new administration in the USA could never be worse than the one which divorced the hearts and minds of Americans from their brothers in the international community, which appalled the rest of the world with shock and awe tactics that included concentration camps, torture, mass murder and utter disrespect for international law. Yet in choosing Obama, the people of America have opted to come back into the international fold. Welcome back, friends!
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BBC, United Kingdom
What kind of president will Obama be?
History will remember Barack Obama for the change he personifies. As America's first black president he will write a new chapter in a long story that began in slavery and persecution and has not yet ended in equality. But he is determined that history will remember him as an agent of change, not just as a symbol of it, and that will not be easy. Mr Obama has made history by winning power. As he attempts to make history in the way he exercises it, he will be weighed down by high expectations. He is going to need all the many gifts - and all the luck - that got him here.
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The Times, United Kingdom
To the victor the spoils — a world full of problems
The problems that will confront Barack Obama beyond the United States make a nonsense of the metaphor of an in-tray. That suggests bureaucratic neatness, a stack of problems waiting for attention that can be dispatched one after the other. Instead, he will inherit a worldwide map of problems that demand more time, military commitment and money than America can possibly deploy..
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L'humanité, France
Barack Obama, The New World
"Change will come to America," says the newly elected president Obama.
By winning California, the Senator of Illinois made sure he would get the 270+ electors' votes needed to receive a majority in the Electoral College which will elect the next U.S. President. He also won the popular vote. The announcement of Obama's victory was followed by scenes of joy and happiness across the country, particularly in his stronghold Chicago where tens of thousands of people kept repeating the mixed race African American candiate's slogan "Yes, we can" with enthusiasm.
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Le Monde, France
Barack Obama elected president: "This is your victory"
The democratic candidate has been elected President of the United States. He promised all Americans that "change has arrived."
Barack Obama, 47, will be the 44th American President and has made national history on November 4th, 2008. A little after 5 o'clock, Parisian time, the American media announced the victory of the democratic candidate over John McCain. The senator of Illinois will thus become the first black president of the United States. Less than an hour later, he was on stage in Grant Park in Chicago, his stronghold, to celebrate his victory and to reassure Americans that "change has arrived."
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Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Germany
President Obama
Barack Obama has won the election to become the next president of America with a clear and resounding majority. Even if the word historical has been used almost over-extensively to describe the significance of this election victory, it is justified without any restriction. For the first time in the history of the United States, an "African-American" is moving into the White House.
In triumph, but without any triumphalism.
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Süddeutsche Zeitung, Germany
America - risen from the ashes
We shall overcome: 45 years after Martin Luther King's famous speech, the USA is demonstrating that the country has been able to grow up. Barack Obama can build bridges across the wide gaps his extremely unpopular predecessor has torn open.
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