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Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Obama and the crumbling of a liberal fantasy hero - FT.com

Obama and the crumbling of a liberal fantasy hero - FT.com


It has taken a long time, but the world’s fantasies about Barack Obama are finally crumbling. In Europe, once the headquarters of the global cult of Obama, the disillusionment is particularly bitter. Monday’s newspapers were full of savage quotes about the perfidy of the Obama-led US.
Der Spiegel, the German magazine that alleged that America’s National Security Agency has bugged the EU’s offices, thundered that “the NSA’s totalitarian ambition ... affects us all ... A constitutional state cannot allow it. None of us can allow it.” President François Hollande of France hasdemanded that the alleged spying stop immediately. Le Monde, Mr Hollande’s home-town newspaper, has even suggested that the EU should consider giving political asylum to Edward Snowden, the NSA whistleblower.

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