And Now a Word From the Foreign Press…
From the Taipei Times:
AP, CHICAGO
Thursday, Dec 18, 2008, Page 7US president-elect Barack Obama was on a pre-holiday roll to fill his Cabinet, with two more nominations in former Iowa governor Tom Vilsack for agriculture secretary and Colorado Senator Ken Salazar to lead the Interior Department.
Obama was appearing with his latest picks yesterday, his third news conference in as many days to announce Cabinet appointments.
Transition officials said more announcements were likely this week, before Obama planned to head to Hawaii for Christmas vacation with his family.
From BBC Online:
Obama named ‘Person of the Year’
“He has come to dominate the public sphere so completely that it beggars belief to recall that half the people in America had never heard of him two years ago.
“He hit the American scene like a thunderclap, upended our politics, shattered decades of conventional wisdom and overcame centuries of the social pecking order.”
From the Daily Telegraph:
Spanish Street to be named after Barack Obama
President-Elect Barack Obama is to have a street named after him in a Spanish town as part of a nationwide move to abandon symbols of General Franco’s dictatorship.
On another note:
The outgoing US vice-president, Dick Cheney, last night gave an unapologetic assessment of his eight years in office, defending the invasion of Iraq, the US prison camp at Guantánamo Bay, secret wiretapping and the extreme interrogation method known as waterboarding.
In his first television interview since the presidential election in November, Cheney displayed no regrets and gave no ground to his many critics within America and around the world. He summed up his record by saying: “I think, given the circumstances we’ve had to deal with, we’ve done pretty well.”
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