Euroviews
BusinessWeek: Europhoria gives way to caution. Put another way, gloating reverts to gutlessness.
NYT: They like us again! Hang on, who’s that guy talking “optical illusion” who says it wasn’t the Recklessist Cowboyist Bush that was the problem … it’s America.
Meanwhile, here are some of our old Europals:
The Dissident Frogman: Obama, The Perfect (Euro)President. Froggy counts the ways.
MVDG at Poligazette: The Mandate Thing. It’s the progressivism, stupid:
So, Obama and Democrats in general now have permission to bring the kind of change to America, Social Democrats brought to Europe …
No Pasaran: No long faces here and Transatlantic Transformation? Don’t Bet on It:
post U.S. election talk shows on German television (for example.) including a few people speaking at the more venerable looking round tables,were repeating the recitation of cultural and political complaints that we’ve had to hear over and over these past years including the mantras of the now victorious American left.
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There must be something more that can embolden the alliance in a way that is neither informed by fear or isn’t an intellectually thread-bare act of just seeming vacuously “nice”.
The need for that bond is real, and we need it to deal with just those things that we wish didn’t have to inform it to begin with - the real calamities, and our mutual well-being and security. But the sophistication just isn’t there (zum beispiel) here in Berlin, where the only questions one gets about Obama is about his skin color, and literally nothing else.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 11:02 am on Thursday, November 6, 2008
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November 6th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
I thoroughly enjoyed the years I spent living in Germany, and I truly enjoyed going back to visit in the 90’s. Trash talking American politics has been a German national obsession since immediately after WWII, though, and Obama’s election isn’t going to change that.
November 6th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
What Fatty Bolger said. What I remember about the Germans is, despite their repudiation of their history, they are still among the most bigoted of people. I fear when Obama’s honeymoon is over, he will get a trashing far worse than Bush ever got.
November 8th, 2008 at 10:33 pm
The Obamalatry of the Euros amuses me. Obama is a protectionist beholden to the unions which are even more protectionist. Look for the Obama Administration to violate our trade treaties in pursuit of protection of the American markets and workers from nasty international trade competittion. What will they do as they are shut out of the US market? Sue in the WTO? In 2004 the Dems did not criticize Bush for the steel tariffs, they criticized him for removing them when the WTO decision went against us, as we were bound to do by treaty. Will an Obama Administration, committed to change we can believe in , feel bound to obey such a decision in he future? I suspect not.
They also haven’t realized that all the Dem talk about “multilateralism,” the UN and suchlike is merely a desperate attempt to get somebody, anybody, to take over America’s responsibilities in the world so we can come home and relax on the couch of the welfare state. When the Euros find thay will have to defend themselves and that the US isn’t there any more providing the protection around the world as we have lo these many decades, and they see the predators come out in the open again, boy, will they be upset. Fortuately they have a bumper crop of white flags coming, so they’ll be ready.