Wednesday, November 05, 2008

Obama Election Dominates Italian Press

The ANNOTICO Report

 

In its editorial entitled DREAM AND LIFE Corriere della Sera wrote ''Barack Obama, hailed at the start of the election campaign as the 'new Kennedy', has crossed the finish line as the 'Black Roosevelt', the man who can save America with a new New Deal''.

US VOTE: ITALIAN PRESS ON OBAMA

Dailies Highlight Change

ANSA

November 5, 2008

 

Rome - The election of Democrat Barack Obama as the next president of the United States dominated the Italian press on Wednesday, although many first editions came out before the result was definitive.

In its morning print version Corriere della Sera limited itself to saying that Omaba was ahead, while the daily's website headlined: AMERICA HAS CHOSEN: OBAMA PRESIDENT. BARACK: ''CHANGE HAS COME''.

Corriere also bannered: BIG WIN FOR BARACK: HE IS THE FIRST BLACK IN THE WHITE HOUSE.

In its editorial entitled DREAM AND LIFE Corriere della Sera wrote ''Barack Obama, hailed at the start of the election campaign as the 'new Kennedy', has crossed the finish line as the 'Black Roosevelt', the man who can save America with a new New Deal''.

OBAMA HEADING TOWARDS THE WHITE HOUSE, headlined La Repubblica in its first edition, adding ''a night battle with McCain, Ohio and Pennsylvania the turning points''.

The Rome daily later bannered on its website: OBAMA PRESIDENT, AMERICA CHANGES SKIN, and then highlighted a quote from the president-elect that ''Nothing is impossible in this country''.

Il Giornale, a Milan daily owned by the family of Premier Silvio Berlusconi, headlined in its first edition THE WORLD HAS A NEW EMPEROR, to then highlight in a sub-banner: ''Uncertainty ends, the United States has chosen a leader for the future. For the first time a black man, polls say''.

The daily later carried the website headline: OBAMA PRESIDENT, AMERICA CHANGES, and used the same quote as La Repubblica ''Nothing is impossible in this country''.

The early morning edition of Rome's Il Messaggero headlined AMERICA IN LINE TO CHOOSE ITS FUTURE and went on to explain ''record lines at polling stations in every state. Problems and delays with the electronic vote''.

Later on its website Il Messaggero bannered: OBAMA IS THE NEW PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. ''CHANGE HAS COME''.

The Rome daily also reported that ''Democratic candidate elected by a landslide, McCain admits defeat, Barack asks him to collaborate''.

La Stampa of Turin headlined REFERENDUM ON OBAMA in its morning edition and added ''Democratic candidate ahead in battleground states, Chicago celebrates''.

The daily headlined on its website: THE USA CHOOSES OBAMA, and added that ''Barack wins big to become the 44th president. In his speech before a massive crowd in Chicago he said: Change is possible''. Italy's leading economic daily Il Sole 24 Ore headlined OBAMA WINS, AMERICA TURNS THE PAGE, and reported how the elections saw ''the biggest turnout in a century'' and that ''Wall Street (+4.1%) bets on an economic recovery''.

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