Europe discovers the 'son of Kenyan goatherd' - by Doug Saunders
In the European primaries this weekend, 400 million people headed to the polls and selected Barack Obama as their candidate for the next president of the United States. Or so it would appear if you crossed Europe looking at the front pages and TV screens of the major capitals. Mr. Obama's face was everywhere, blanking out Nicolas Sarkozy's love affair, the Pope's proclamations, even Britain's soccer scandals. Across the continent, there was a collective sense of astonishment and novelty from audiences accustomed to viewing the United States through a monochromatic and often very angry lens. "Race reshaped by the son of Kenyan goatherd," said the Times, which, along with fellow London newspapers the Telegraph, The Independent and The Guardian, featured large photos of Mr. Obama on the top of the front page and ran multipage spreads on him inside.
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