Foreign Press on Barack Obama

The foreign press on Obamania!, and these two are in just the last week:

• Der Spiegel: “The rise of democratic frontrunner Barack Obama signifies an alarming victory of style over substance.”

And that was just the first sentence. Make sure and read the rest.

• Gerard Baker of the Times of London asks: “Are Americans really ready to leap all the way across in one go to embrace a European-style Left?”

I’m thinking these guys know a thing or two about European lefties.

• The Times Online UK has more on Barack Obama’s “boneheaded” real-estate mistake:

A British-Iraqi billionaire lent millions of dollars to Barack Obama’s fundraiser just weeks before an imprudent land deal that has returned to haunt the presidential contender, an investigation by The Times discloses.

The money transfer raises the question of whether funds from Nadhmi Auchi, one of Britain’s wealthiest men, helped Mr Obama buy his mock Georgian mansion in Chicago.

A company related to Mr Auchi, who has a conviction for corruption in France, registered the loan to Mr Obama’s bagman Antoin “Tony” Rezko on May 23 2005. Mr Auchi says the loan, through the Panamanian company Fintrade Services SA, was for $3.5 million.

Three weeks later, Mr Obama bought a house on the city’s South Side while Mr Rezko’s wife bought the garden plot next door from the same seller on the same day, June 15.

It’s a shame that in order to find any objective reporting on the Obamassiah!, we have to turn to European news.