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09SAOPAULO47
2009-01-23 15:53:00
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Consulate Sao Paulo
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Media Reaction: So Help Me God

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SUBJECT: Media Reaction: So Help Me God

Media Reaction: Presidential Inauguration-New Administration Foreign
Policy

Title- So Help Me God

Op-Ed in liberal Folha de S.Paulo (1-23) by Fernando Gabeira,
states: "How to come down from the clouds of great expectations to
the reality without causing frustration?....In [President Barack
Obama's inauguration] speech, there is a choice: between security
and our ideals, he chose both. The next day, an action: suspend
proceedings in Guantanamo. Obama's success will be a thread of hope
against the cynicism of politics."

Title- Invisible Hand, Alert Eyes

Op-Ed in liberal Folha de S.Paulo (1-23) penned by Clovis Rossi:
"Thus ends the Reagan era, where the invisible hand of the market
seems to be the only guide, and the Obama era begins, at least in
rhetoric, where the invisible hand will have to live with 'alert
eyes' that can only be the State's [eyes] - or ideally the society's
[eyes], through the State....Obama has around two months to show his
'alert eye', which is the deadline prior to the G-20 meeting (April
2nd) when the issue will have to be defined."

Title- Why, Bush?

Op-Ed in liberal Folha de S.Paulo (1-23) by former Brazilian
President Jose Sarney states: "Obama is the rising sun. Bush is the
light that switched off ....His [George. W. Bush's] reactions to the
challenges of governing were wrong and generated mortgages for the
world that will last for a long time....The past was a disaster: the
heritage of two wars and the greatest crisis of the century. But
the American dream survived, thanks to freedom; freedom to choose,
to realize the pursuit of happiness that [Thomas] Jefferson talked
about - that is an example to all of us."
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