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Obama campaign gets long sought endorsements
The U.S. presidents announcement, made in an e-mail to supporters Monday, sent many in Moscow praising the achievements of a reset in relations that has become a hallmark of both Obamas and Dmitry Medvedevs presidencies.I will be very happy to see a second Obama term because this will mean a maximum in policy continuity regarding Russia, Mikhail Fedotov, head of Medvedevs human rights council, said by telephone Tuesday. His comments were echoed by Alexei Malashenko, an analyst at the Carnegie Moscow Center, who said a second Obama term would be the best possible outcome for Moscow because there was no more capable or promising leader in current U.S. politics. He is the first U.S. president completely free of Cold War thinking, Malashenko explained. Konstantin Kosachyov, chairman of the State Dumas International Affairs Committee, also has enthusiastically embraced Obama as Moscows obvious choice. Obamas global agenda is much better and more productive than what was proposed by his predecessors, Kosachyov, who is also a leading member of United Russia, said in comments published on the partys web site Monday. But Kosachyov made it clear that what he liked about Obamas stance on Russia might seem a weakness to others. Previous administrations, he said, defined U.S. national interests as meaning world dominance, while Obama accepts the concept of a multipolar world as being compatible with its national interests. Fellow United Russia Deputy Sergei Markov put it more bluntly. We should support Obama because he softened support for anti-Russian regimes in our neighborhood, like that of [Georgian President Mikheil] Saakashvili, he said by telephone. Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2011-05-01 |
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