Andrew Neil

Thoughts from abroad, with two days to go…

and assuming an Obama victory. If McCain wins expect very different thoughts on Wednesday morning!

1) That part of the world which does not include the USA is pretty much a one-party state for Obama and if he fails to win there will be much international wailing and gnashing of teeth at the “stupid, racist Americans.”

But the rest of the world should be careful for what it wishes because an Obama victory will make the usual knee-jerk anti-Americanism, now so common in the chancelleries and fashionable drawing-rooms of European and developing countries alike, much more difficult. With someone called Barack Hussein Obama, son of a Kenyan goat-herder sitting in the Oval Office, default ant-Americanism will be harder to sustain, especially in Europe which as no Obamas of its own.

Indeed Europe hasn’t even any Colin Powells or Condolezza Rices. France has 6m Muslims plus another 2m immigrant stock of black African origin, all in a country of 60m people.

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