A few newspaper headlines/comments around the globe:
"Latest reports show [Russian President Vladimir] Putin in the lead, over Republican George W. Bush and Democrat Al Gore"
~ Russian Web site www.anekdot.ru
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"A Day as a Banana Republic."
"The first election of the new millennium has brought America into the realm of the surreal,"
~ Italian daily "La Republica.
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"If this had happened in Nigeria or anywhere else in Africa, the whole world would be pointing fingers at us,"
~ Fortune Akabuka, a cabdriver in Lagos, Nigeria.
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Mexican-style fraud, orchestrated perhaps by Gov. Jeb Bush, could be behind Florida's fuzzy electoral math.
~ Mexican newspaper.
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Miami's Cuban-American community was blasted for any role it might have played in the fracas—and offered to send "impartial observers" to help audit the recount.
~ Cuba's state-controlled media.
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"never mind"
~ second message sent to George Bush by several world leaders, after sending the first one of "congratulation for his victory".
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And my favorite....
"In the craziest of its scenarios, Hollywood would never have dared imagine a similar suspense," the newspaper said. "But rather than put the United States in the lineup of banana republics, this impossibility proclaiming George Bush or Al Gore the winner can seem a sort of perverse homage to democracy … In America, the glory of democracy is its uncertainty."
~ An editorial in France's Le Figaro.
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