Obama Remakes Political Rules from Politico
"Three months after his election, President Barack Obama continues to remake the political landscape—and there’s no clearer example than Friday’s election of Michael Steele as the Republican National Committee's first black chairman. "
Obama Takes a Different Tone, and Muslims Like It from the McClatchy News Service
"In 10 days, President Barack Obama has transformed the U.S. dialogue with the Muslim world. His tools have been carefully chosen words of reconciliation, the decision to close Guantanamo Bay prison and the early dispatch of a Middle East peace envoy."
By Sounding So European, Obama Challenges Europe from Liberation [of France in English]
"Unless Europe learns, as quickly as possible, how to accelerate its unification and speak and act together, it risks passing again into the shadow of an America to which intelligence has returned."
Iranian Leaders Should Seize Chance for Better US Ties from the Iran Daily News [from the Islamic Republic of Iran in English]
"Now that the leader of the United States has taken a positive step toward Iran, the Islamic Republic's leaders should seize on the chance and work for a positive outcome."
The Day Obama Moved Kampala from the Monitor [of Uganda]
"The day was last Tuesday, which went down in the history books, as the day when America swore in the first ever African American President, whose names sound more “African” (Barack Hussein Obama), than African American! "
Coming to America, by Sarah Obama from the Daily Nation [of Kenya]
"Mama Sarah Obama, the grandmother of US president Barack Obama still wishes she were in America. In an interview at her Kogelo home on Wednesday, the 87-year-old woman talked of her experience in the US where she had gone to attend her grandson’s inauguration."
A New, Tougher Kind of Politics from Newsweek
"The full expanse of his vision only becomes clear if we understand why he followed that indictment with the potent scriptural admonition "to put childish things aside." When he made a similar charge about the juvenilia of politics in his book "The Audacity of Hope," writing that government recently felt like a case of "arrested development," he made it clear that he didn't just mean George W. Bush."
Playing with Fire (Bob Herbert) from the New York Times
"It was good to see the president, ordinarily so cool, so accommodating, exhibiting some real fire the other night. It seems to have done some good."
Watch the Tone in Washington (Charles Blow) from the New York Times
"Republicans are trying to draw Democrats into a screaming match because they know they’re better at it. They are the masters of shrill — masters of stoking ignorance and rousing rabble."
The GOP Faces the Blue Wall (David Broder) from the Washington Post
"But now the Republican electoral lock has been replaced and surpassed by "the blue wall." That's the term Ronald Brownstein, the political director of Atlantic Media Co., applies to the Democrats' advantage."
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