When it comes right down to it, is there anything Barack Obama can do to win over arch-rivals like Hugo Chavez and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad? According to this editorial from Argentina’s La Capital, the answer is probably no.
The La Capital editorial says in part:
“The fact that the head of the U.S. empire is viewed internationally with such sympathy and admiration is for many, highly problematic. There are governments for whom it is indispensible to have the United States as an enemy. … The Bushification of Barack Obama is the almost inevitable next chapter in the narrative, that began with assurances that it would be impossible for the Americans to elect a Black president, went through the surprise of Obama’s victory, the overwhelming emotion of his inauguration and on to the enormous expectations about his ability to solve the enormous problems he has inherited. Now comes the stage in which many will explain that in substance, there isn’t much difference between George W. Bush and Barack Hussein Obama.”
Or in the words of the lyrical president of Venezuela, both are ‘the same scum,’ meaning that both are the malignant effluent that oozes from any diseased or rotten matter … And it’s not only Chávez; Bushification is a global trend. For the Iranian regime, it will be important to show that although the new President’s middle name is Hussein and the meaning of Obama in Farsi is ‘he’s with us,’ in reality he is, like his predecessor, the ultimate representative of the Great Satan.”
EDITORIAL
Translated By Halszka Czarnocka
January 31, 2009
Argentina – La Capital – Original Article (Spanish)
It isn’t easy to have such a popular guy in the White House. The fact that the head of the U.S. empire is viewed internationally with such sympathy and admiration is for many, highly problematic. There are governments for whom it is indispensible to have the United States as an enemy. And we all know people for whom anti-Americanism is almost a basic instinct and principal source of their political views.This is why the Bushification of Obama will soon come into fashion.
The Bushification of Barack Obama is the almost inevitable next chapter in the narrative, that began with assurances that it would be impossible for the Americans to elect a Black president, went through the surprise of Obama’s victory, the overwhelming emotion of his inauguration and on to the enormous expectations about his ability to solve the enormous problems he has inherited. Now comes the stage in which many will explain that in substance, there isn’t much difference between George W. Bush and Barack Hussein Obama.
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