If you, too, are experiencing Dowd dread, expand your op-ed horizons by checking out the Council on Foreign Relations new daily roundup of opinion pages from English-language newspapers around the world.
For example, the roundup links to an editorial in today’s (UK) Telegraph which reads:
After Mr Obama’s relaxed and confident performance on American television last night, it seems he has successfully put the embarrassment caused by his former pastor, the Rev Jeremiah Wright, behind him…
Obama has “successfully put” WrightGate “behind him?” They must not be watching the full spectrum of “American television” across the pond.
classic. I was just wondering why it is that we seem so fixated on these matters (miley cyrus, the barak/wright gate) rather than so many of the valid issues out there that deserve our consideration...
Is it just me?
How "shocking" that the foreign press seems to have gotten it right, or at least a lot closer, more ready to move on when the time is right to...
Posted by washwords
on Tue 6 May 2008 at 01:57 AM