Third Global Press Roundup: Obama Inauguration

The global press output about Obama’s inauguration remains huge. The global financial crisis is also an issue of great interest but most of the pieces that are tackling that are also about Obama’s power, or lack of power, to do anything about it.

Moreover, the inauguration, and indeed the very idea of Obama, provide a single reference point that seems to help explicate differences among political cultures around the world. For example, Russian and Chinese output on Obama has a particularly distinct “flavor”.

A selected few foreign articles follow – translations at the top and content originally written in English at the bottom.

Yezhednevni Journal, Russia
Freedom and Non-Freedom

It was a display of freedom, plain and simple. These hundreds of thousands of people, standing as equals.

Moheet, Egypt
Egypt and a Conspiring Agreement

Sina, China
Obama Hopes Soft Power Will Restore U.S.

Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland
The White House Would Be Cool

Farda News, Iran
Obama Orders Halt to Laws Issued by the Bush Administration

Nezavisimaya Gazeta, Russia
Will Obama Rebuild International Agreement?

China Review News, Taiwan
The Obama Whirlwind Will Create A Win-Win-Win for U.S., China and Taiwan

Gandul, Romania
Obamerica

Barack Obama is a Grand Catalyst – God help us that he won’t be taken by others, or himself, as anything other than that.

NRC Handelsblad, The Netherlands
And the Rest of the World…

The days of being able to have champagne taste on a beer budget are gone.

Le Monde, France
Behind Obama Mania

Bild Zeitung, Germany
What Can We Learn From Obama?

Le Figaro, France
At Last The Difficulties Begin

Le Figaro, France
For Sarkozy, an American “Buddy” Who Will Be a Rival

Financial Times Deutschland, Germany
No Reason for Obama to Hurry

El Pais, Uruguay
The Conclusion

Les Echos, France
The Prohibited Failure

The same sense of urgency, the same prohibition of failure lives in Barack Obama. He must succeed at his New Deal, of course for the United States, but also for the rest of the world.

La Prensa, Honduras
New Era in the United States

The Moscow Times, Russia
How Russians Interpret Obama

The St. Petersburg Times, Russia
Starting Fresh with Obama

The Independent, U.K.
Bush’s ‘Puppet in Kabul’ Will Not Go Quietly

The Guardian, U.K.
Guantanamo Closure Marks Pivotal Turn

Pravda, Russia
Obama Embodies Grand Failure of Great Hopes

The Times, U.K.
Hurdles Between Obama and a Third Oath

The Telegraph, U.K.
Obama May Keep Gordon Brown Waiting

The Jerusalem Post, Israel
From Bush to Obama

Yedioth Ahronot , Israel
Wishing You Good Luck, Mr. President

On behalf of seven million Israelis, Eitan Haber welcomes new the President of Free World to the White House

The Saudi Gazette, Saudi Arabia
Obama’s Middle East Agenda

The Belfast Telegraph, Ireland
We Won’t Be at the Top of Obama’s Packed In-tray

The Belfast Telegraph, Ireland
Over 40 and Fab, Michelle Is Role Model For Women

Pravda, Russia
Eight Years of Bush: It’s Over at Last

RIA Novosti, Russia
Obama’s Day and Martin Luther King’s Day

St. Petersburg Times, Russia
Obama’s Rescue Plan Is Doomed to Fail

If Obama wants to go down in history as having saved his country from the economic crisis, it will not be enough to simply spend enormous sums of money.

St. Petersburg Times, Russia
Starting Fresh with Obama

Zimbabwe Independent, Zimbabwe
Swish, Obama and the Terrorists

President Obama’s inauguration increases the likelihood of a major terrorist attack in the United States.

The Daily Nation, Kenya
Obama Has Shown Kenyans The Way; Now Let’s Follow His Path

The Daily Nation, Kenya
Fragile Peace Beckons

The Tripoli Post, Libya
American Politicians and Complicity to Murder

The Jamaica Observer, Jamaica
God Bless America

The Jamaica Observer, Jamaica
Can Obama Walk The Talk?

The Standard, Hong Kong
Give Bush Some Credit

People’s Daily, China
Obama to Pursue Pragmatic Foreign Policy