McCain Yes; Obama No?

Obama is stimulating not only the youth to get out and vote, but also the world’s journalists to produce some great op-eds.

Watching America is featuring a piece translated from the Spanish-language Mexico’s daily, Excelsior, entitled “McCain Yes; Obama No?”, which touches effectively on so many fundamental themes in U.S. politics. Here are a few quotes.

American bipartisanism looks like monopartisanism with two facets

This situation is like a prefiguration of the shrinking of the ideological spectrum brought about by globalization

John McCain is a politician who walks in the border between the two parties

The fact that McCain is the forerunner shows that conservative leadership has discovered that after Bush’s failure, only a republican who is not a republican has an opportunity to win the election

McCain is more likely to become a nominee and president than is Obama because the American establishment would allow the former to win but not the latter

The content of Obama’s message is not that radical but the medium is the message. Obama is many things without being them. His origin, his color and his youth enclose a presage of change that attracts North Americans as much as it scares them.

And it ends what is a nice summary of the perspective of the rest of the world, which very much would like to be voting in this election, since the outcome will change their lives too:

If the final contest is between the Senators from Illinois and Arizona, the rest of the world would not mind being unable to vote in this election.

This Must-Read op-ed from Mexico is here on Watching America.com