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| MEDIA HEADLINES 21/01/2009 |
| (2009-01-21) |
| Last updated: 2009-01-22 11:37 EET |
“Millions of people waited in the cold for the inauguration of America’s first black president”, headlines the daily Ziua after the ceremonies in Washington that celebrated the start of Barack Obama’s term and dominated news programmes across the world. The enthusiasm generated by the outcome of the elections of November the 4th could also be seen at the inauguration festivities, with America in love with Obama, as the daily Adevarul writes. “The world’s most expensive and publicised inauguration ceremony came at the beginning of a 4-year mandate which the Americans view with unprecedented optimism: the Barack Obama era”, writes the daily Jurnalul National.
Along the same lines, Cotidianul speaks about the Obamania that has engulfed the whole world: “it’s not just the enthusiasm of the American people, who are quick to believe in idols, but the hopes of an entire planet for American to lead the way towards the world’s economic revival.” Once the festivities over, Evenimentul Zilei believes, Obama will “take the world’s burden on his shoulders”. The daily quotes, however, the French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner as saying that the new US president doesn’t have a magic wand and that we shouldn’t expect him to solve America’s problems or our problems.
While the Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Zapatero doesn’t rule out that the Obama effect might diminish the world economic recession itself, his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin is sceptical and warns that the greatest hopes can lead to the greatest disappointments. The international media as reflected in Romanian papers also seems to vacillate between excitement and anguish. While the left wing daily Liberation writes that the future has changed sides and has found a human face, the British press highlights the rise of a politician who was anonymous 12 years ago and wonders just how long the American honey moon can last.
At the end of an election campaign that lasted two years, the president now has to translate his beautiful words into action, writes the German magazine Der Spiegel, and goes on to list the new challenges facing the new US president: the economy slips into an ever bigger crisis, the Middle East is becoming increasingly unstable and the Republicans are waiting for the new American leader to make his first mistakes. Back to Bucharest, the satirical magazine Academia Catavencu believes that with a new president at the White House, the Basescu government borrows from Obama’s optimism and even his electoral motto, although with small adjustments: Yes, we can’t!
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