Watching America has a flurry of articles from Europe on the Iowa caucuses. The French media have been busy summarizing events for their readers, as in Last Moment of the Campaign before the Iowa Caucuses from the Nouvel Observateur, France and the current feature story, Iowa Caucuses Kick off the Primaries from Le Monde, France
The Brits are more colorful and opinionated, it seems. The Guardian, U.K. is writing some great copy, all of which WA.com is aggregating. Writing in the Great Race to the White House looks at the candidates’ books, while Republicans Face First Poll in Disarray offers such great one-liners as
There is growing unease among Republican organisers that the Grand Old Party of Lincoln, Eisenhower and Reagan could meet the same fate as Huckabee’s squirrel.
The Brits indeed have a cultural bias toward cynicism and the humbling of the mighty, especially when the mighty have been taking their mightiness for granted, so you can bet on plenty more of such irreverence as we go through the Primaries…
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Robin Koerner is a British-born citizen of the USA, who currently serves as Academic Dean of the John Locke Institute. He holds graduate degrees in both Physics and the Philosophy of Science from the University of Cambridge (U.K.). He is also the founder of WatchingAmerica.com, an organization of over 100 volunteers that translates and posts in English views about the USA from all over the world.
Robin may be best known for having coined the term “Blue Republican” to refer to liberals and independents who joined the GOP to support Ron Paul’s bid for the presidency in 2012 (and, in so doing, launching the largest coalition that existed for that candidate).
Robin’s current work as a trainer and a consultant, and his book If You Can Keep It , focus on overcoming distrust and bridging ideological division to improve politics and lives. His current project, Humilitarian, promotes humility and civility as a basis for improved political discourse and outcomes.