Posts Tagged ‘2008 US Presidential election’

730 newspaper front pages from 66 countries

November 8th, 2008
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The Newseum has a collection of front page images from 730 newspapers on 5 November 2008:
http://www.newseum.org/…rchive.asp

It is interesting to see how many made Obama’s victory a front page story.

It may be safe to assume that there would have been front page coverage of the election results in as many papers if the outcome would have been different.

What is interesting is the headlines used when reporting on Obama’s victory. I like the headline from one of the papers in Syndey: “Everyone’s a Winner”.

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Behind the scenes with the Democrats Aroad Obama supporters at the EMEA caucus in Brussels

March 19th, 2008

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On Saturday once all of the procedural issues were settled the women delegate candidates, myself included, gave 2 minute prsentations as to why they would be the best female delegate.  It was inmportant to the Obama delegates to implement the DA goald of having a delegation that represented DA abroad:  African, Asian, and Aispanic Americans, member from the LBGT community as well as  white men and women.  Of 4 delegates we were allotted we wanted to send 2 men and 2 women.  So the coalition buildling between countries began.  Who would we support?

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After lunch the men gave their presentations and the voting began.  After 2 rounds of votes no one had won and as people left for dinner and more negotiating, we would come back and finish the selection process on Sunday morning.  Little did we know that on Sunday morning we would be thrown a moneky wrench and forced to rethink everything we had learned on Saturday.  Read more about this from a personal angle here.

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In the end we elected elegates that represent a diverson section of people and countries.

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Dems Abroad EMEA Caucus kicks off in Brussels

March 14th, 2008

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Friday evening evening (March 14, 2009) about a dozen Democrats Abroad in Brussels for the EMEA regional caucus were treated to a tour of the historic Hotel de Ville and drinks with the Mayor of Brussels.  Maor Thilemmans was funny, gracious, and supportive of the idea of a Democrat in the White House as soon as possible.

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2 hours later over 100 dems living in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa gathered for Belgian beer at the historic beer brewers guild bulding on Grand’ Place.

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