Thursday, November 6, 2008

Barack Mania in Italy


La Repubblica, one of the main Italian newspapers devoted its first 11 pages exclusively to Obama today and another half dozen pages deeper in the paper. The front page and some of the other pages are below. The large headline reads “The World Has Changed.” And the article in the bottom right corner bears the headline "The End of Autism” (only in Italy would one see such a headline!) and opens with “Barack Obama is the president of the world. Not in the pessimist and impossible sense of emperor of us all, but in a realistic and positive sense, as the man that the majority of humanity wanted as the leader of the most important country in the world.” The article goes on to report on a virtual planetary election held on the internet in which Obama won 94.5% of the French vote, 88% of the Chinese vote, 92.5% of the German vote and 92% of the Italian vote.

Pages 2-3: (click on photo to enlarge)

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1 comment:

Unknown said...

Thanks for posting this-we are no longer lepers.