"America Is Experiencing A Conservative Resurrection And The Tea Party Is The 'Life-Blood"
Steve Eichler Exe. Director - Tea Party/TeaParty.org
The World Ponders U.S. Election Results. Newspapers around the world focused closely on Tuesday's U.S. midterm elections, with headline writers scrambling for words to describe the scale of the losses faced by the Democratic Party - and President Obama.
"Tsunami" was the word of choice for some, like the Czech Republic's Hospodarske Noviny, although once it became clear the Senate would not change hands, the Guardian of London decided the election was "not quite a tsunami," but a "big Republican wave" nonetheless.
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For the Taipei Times, the outcome was a "horror show" for Obama while The Age in Melbourne, Australia called it a "Thanksgiving stuffing" for the president.
Austria's Kleine Zeitung dubbed Obama "the disenchanted hero," and some papers raised the specter of one-term Democratic president Jimmy Carter.
"Mr. Obama is looking more and more like President Jimmy Carter," wrote Tasha Kheiriddin, a columnist for Canada's National Post. She added that "the long-term effect" of the Carter presidency had been "the revival of the conservative movement."
"The Republicans are clearly hoping that the 2012 Presidential election will play out the same way - but to seize the opportunity, they first have to find the right candidate."
An editorial in The Australian blamed Obama for the poor Democratic showing, but said "the president is not yet a one-term failure of the Jimmy Carter kind."
"Bill Clinton came back from a Democrat debacle in the 1994 mid-term elections, born of similar problems to Mr. Obama's - an inexperienced White House and an unpopular health scheme," it said. "Mr. Clinton responded by realizing that only pragmatism and not his winning personality could get him out of trouble. He hired Republican strategist Dick Morris and focused on working with the conservatives in congress."
A writer for the pan-Arab daily Dar al Hayat, Jihad el-Khazen, also blamed Obama - for not being more successful in blaming his predecessor for America's problems."His boisterous speeches, smart slogans and enthusiasm have all but vanished, to the point that the President cannot even convince the Americans that their problems, from America's losing foreign incursions to an economy in recession and with nearly ten percent of Americans unemployed, are all part of the legacy of George W. Bush and the right-wing gang that ruled the country with the former ignorant president as their front," he wrote.
Not surprisingly, media outlets in many countries viewed the election through the prism of local and regional concerns.
The Moscow Times cited an analyst as linking progress in Russia's relations with NATO to whichever party controls the foreign relations committees in the House and Senate."Obama has one year until he embarks on a new election campaign or decides not to run and make do with a single term in office," said Israel's Ha'aretz. "During that time Obama will hope to advance the establishment of Palestine and usher it into the family of nations, as he promised in his address at the U.N. General Assembly."
The Palestinian news agency Ma'an homed in on State Department spokesman Philip Crowley's assurances that the Mideast peace process would not be affected by the election, even though it could "change some of the key players" who will "bring in their own ideas in terms of how to execute foreign policy."
"Everyone in this part of the world is already wondering if all these political changes will not make the Obama administration more hawkish with regard to its policy on Pakistan and Afghanistan," commented Kamal Hyder, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Pakistan. "Many, in fact, admit the war in Afghanistan is lost."
Beijing's Global Times, a paper affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party, quoted a Chinese academic as warning against underestimating the shift of power in the House of Representatives.
"Republicans are tough on problems related to China, such as Taiwan and currency issues, so they might become a sharp sword to be wielded against China," said Sun Zhe, director of the Center for U.S.-China relations at Tsinghua University.
Source: conservativeactionalerts.com/blog_post/show/1429
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