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Europeans on Friday greeted Barack Obama’s acceptance of the U.S. Democratic nomination as a strong performance that boosted his campaign and went beyond mere show to offer a clearer picture of what he might do as president.
Polls from Germany _ where Obama drew an audience of some 200,000 for a speech in Berlin last month _ and elsewhere in Europe have shown him to be an overwhelming favorite over Republican rival John McCain amid wide discontent with President Bush.
Still, some have questioned whether a captivating style and promises of change are enough to win the presidency.
“In Denver, it wasn’t just about ‘change’ any more, but about cash, too,” German weekly Der Spiegel wrote in its online edition. “The defining line running through his nomination speech was not wishes, but reality.”
“Barack Obama is in the process of developing from a redeemer into a politician,” it added. “That is a great disappointment for many of his supporters, but it is necessary.”
Although many European television channels aired the speech live in the early hours of Friday morning, most people didn’t stay up to see it. One who did was the German government’s coordinator on U.S. relations, Karsten Voigt.
“I think it has strengthened his position in the campaign _ whether this now can be balanced by an equally strong performance of McCain waits to be seen,” Voigt said.
In his blog, Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt described Obama’s performance as “American rhetoric about the American dream in best American style _ but also a way to give a certain amount of substance to politics. And to draw up the border lines to John McCain.”
Still, the plaudits for Obama’s style were undiminished.
Vittorio Zucconi, a correspondent Italy’s left-leaning La Repubblica daily, described Obama’s acceptance speech as “the best of Obama _ as one would say about a music compilation.”
“In all these months that I’ve followed him and listened to him, I had never seen him so lively, in such good form, and especially _ and that’s the novelty _ so aggressive,” Zucconi wrote on the newspaper’s Web site. “He has shown his claws.”
Voigt said this year’s presidential campaign _ and not just Obama’s rise _ challenged “the prejudice in Europe that Americans are less interested in politics ... and the parties are not very different.”
“This time the populace have really a choice _ the candidates represent different ideas and experiences,” he said. “There is an enormous engagement and support for the candidates, and Europeans should try to learn from it.”
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Associated Press writers across Europe contributed to this report.
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15 August 2008
RE: McCain Economic Energy Plan, Mealer Companies.
Dear Governor Napolitano,
As a constituent of yours here in Arizona, yet across the political spectrum as a Republican leaning conservative, I must compliment you on the excellent job you have done governing Arizona. We will miss you when you retire from office this year.
I am writing this letter to inform you of the economic strength Senator McCain will be able to bring to the USA when he is elected president. Arizona will benefit from McCain’s economic & energy plan as will America. I began calling this plan the 3R plan as the private sector has defined Senator McCain’s outline to Rethink, Reform and Reinvent the US economy while taking on a tremendous energy plan.
The goals include massive job training for thousands of new USA mfg companies while utilizing existing (thousands of) abandoned buildings for training and new mfg arenas. We expect to allow the current owners of these abandoned buildings to take full advantage of the existing tax breaks as they allow America to retrain and ultimately take-over their defunct buildings. Americans demand more from themselves and from our struggling economy… We will create an incredible amount of new businesses and new jobs through this plan.
All of this while putting hundreds of thousands of people to work through support businesses (food, retail, housing, leisure, etc) while many more people will be furnished jobs during the building(s) transformation. This is a win-win situation and something more along the lines of Teddy Roosevelt… Who is, as we all know, one of John McCain’s political heroes.
We cannot afford a tax and spend, “giveaway-artist” who can’t seem to tell the truth about a single issue. Obama is not ready to lead the USA. You backed him over Clinton and surprised all of America by straying from your otherwise pro-American, pro-Economy, pro-Gun, pro-Freedom beliefs.
Mealer Companies along with many other green auto mfg firms have automobiles that will replace fossil fuel powered vehicles. Of course, Mealer Companies is a mainly Arizona based, wholly Made In USA, automobile mfg who, in my opinion, will offer the most viable green-engineered vehicles and full power supply systems for home/office to the public. Yes, power replacement device that is way ahead of it’s time, yet long overdue. We expect to have an incredible impact on the US economy, the world ecology and eventually we fully expect to halt the need for crude oil and coal as a power source.
Mealer Companies is currently being set-up for massive funding through a joint venture company while accessing added exposure from such Conservative celebrities as actor Stephen Baldwin and radio talk show host, Kevin McCullough. While no agreements have yet been made, we are seeking to gain both business partners and celebrity backing as we move into a new era of Change.
It’s almost comical how environmentalist groups have rallied behind a totally inane mysticism and the candidate furthest from any sort of solution! When they step back and see that Obama’s economic plan is vague, unambiguous and otherwise hollowed out for special interest groups… Perhaps they might still have a chance to make the right choice.
We expect to also gain celebrity insight, promotion and fan-based backing with other McCain supporters; Sylvester Stallone, Jon Voight, Tom Selleck, Lou Ferrigno, Dennis Miller, Roger Staubach and so many more sensible people as an added push into a massive McCain 3R economic-energy agenda.
We must replace the very rapidly lost fuel tax source before we replace fossil fuels. Through the McCain 3R plan, we have this opportunity and we expect to take it. We have the plan, we have the infrastructure, we have a very bright American future if we can put McCain’s plan to work. WE means people who can think for themselves and who care for our nation and for people in general.
Please, accept my personal offer to further honor Arizona and America as you part your ways in politics, by helping to promote a stronger America through Mealer Companies and John McCain’s Economic Energy plans. I am not asking you to drop the endorsement of your fellow Democrat Senator Obama, but simply asking you to endorse a truly American plan for economic growth through USA mfg and energy independence.
Mealer Companies and everything I am telling you may be researched and proven to be true and legitimate through the contacts enclosed- which include the City Government of Show Low, Arizona, the Arizona State Department of Commerce, Homeland Security, my lawyer, my excellent, personal and business references and the joint venture company itself.
Sincerely,
John Lewis Mealer
Founding President Mealer Companies
www.betterconstructed.com (original investor site)
www.mealercompanies.com (parked domain)