NYT'S Cohen: Vote Obama -- Pakistani Muslims Would!

NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[governsleastgovernsbest]

"Good evening, this is Katie Couric. I'll be anchoring our Decision 2008 coverage tonight, as the world elects the next President of the United States. The polls closed just minutes ago in Pakistan but we're already able to declare Barack Obama the runaway winner in the Islamabad Capital Territory, and he seems poised to pull off a clean sweep of all Pakistan's provinces."

OK, not even the New York Times is proposing -- yet -- giving the vote to everyone in the world. But for whatever reason, the Times's Roger Cohen apparently thinks the best thing he can say about Barack Obama is that -- given the chance -- he's the candidate that most people around the world, including Pakistanis, would put in the White House.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Barack Obama - the world’s candidate. Ping to Today show list.

[Ditter]

What a stupid thing for him to say.

[PGalt]

Renewal is about policy; it’s also about symbolism. Which brings us to Barack Hussein Obama, the Democratic candidate with a Kenyan father, a Kansan mother, an Indonesian stepfather, a childhood in Hawaii and Indonesia and impressionable experience of the Muslim world. If the globe can’t vote next November, it can find itself in Obama.

Presidential or UN Secretary General material? Watch out for that Steamroller Hillary stole from Spitzer, Barack. Keep your ears on good buddy. 10-4.

[Migraine]

I look longingly into the rearview mirror of American history, when Democrats were still Americans like us. My dear God in Heaven, I believe they are truly lost little sheep. It is pathetic. The system we used to have is broken. How (if at all) do we get it back?

[A. Morgan]

Barack “not that Hussein” Obama

[Rummyfan]

The Democrats are the pary of appeasement, globalism, and pacificism. I think they ceased being American sometime in the seventies....

[G8 Diplomat]

Pakistan ۋﮧ۱م

FReepmail if you want on or off