Council on Foreign Relations

Boston Globe

• President Obama: In an editorial, the paper says the election of Barack Obama as America's forty-fourth president ushers in not just a new and decisively different direction for the United States, but also a new kind of politics.

Business Daily (Kenya)

• Obama's Lesson: In an editorial published before the election result was known, the paper says the candidature of Obama is a big lesson to us: you don't have to come from a big community to win and you cannot use your community to win.

Chicago Tribune

• American Ideals: In an editorial, the paper points out that when Barack Obama was born, African Americans risked death merely to register to vote in some southern states. His election, it says, is a moving vindication of the ideals on which the United States was founded.

Daily Telegraph

• Obama's Change: In an editorial, the paper says restoring his country's reputation as a force for good in the world is the most powerful change that Barack Obama, forty-fourth president of the United States of America, can bring about.
• Obama's Victory: Columnist Tim Shipman writes it was because Americans came to believe that they needed what Barack Obama was offering that they picked him.

Globe and Mail (Canada)

• American Democracy: In an editorial, the paper says whatever his achievements in the White House, Barack Obama has already achieved something remarkable in his path to it. Against all odds, he has restored lustre to American democracy, making it once again an inspiration to the world.

Guardian

• Obama's Victory: In an editorial, the Guardian says today is for celebration, for happiness, and for reflected human glory. Savour those words, it says: President Barack Obama, America's hope and, in no small way, ours too.

Independent (UK)

• Great Presidents: In an editorial, the paper says the greatest U.S. presidents--George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt--were great precisely because they overcame huge challenges. Today's fraught circumstances mean Barack Obama has the chance to join their number, it concludes.
• President's Challenge: Columnist Hamish McRae writes that the challenge facing the forty-fourth president is to explain to Americans that the country needs to become less dependent on others for physical resources, most notably oil, but more importantly less dependent on the rest of the world for financial resources.

International Herald Tribune

• Bush Testimonials: The paper asks six writers to reflect on what they have most admired about President Bush. They include former White House press secretaries Ari Fleischer and Scott McClellan and the author of a book on his presidency, Robert Draper.

Jamaica Gleaner

• President Obama: In an editorial welcoming Barack Obama's victory, the paper says undeclared apartheid was in Obama's lifetime, and in that context, his election to the presidency is a significant and profound part of the narrative in the emerging American story.

Los Angeles Times

• Black President: In an editorial, the paper points to the significance of the United States electing a black president. Our history of racism is real and painful, and it is far from resolved, it says. But our progress is equally undeniable, it points out.

Middle East Times (Egypt)

• Historic Obama: In an editorial, the paper says there are many reasons for Middle East populations and leaders to welcome President-elect Obama's historic victory, but Obama is neither Messiah nor Mahdi. A cautious, well-meaning but clear eyed realism should still guide regional assessments of security, war and peace, it counsels.

National Post (Canada)

• American Project: In an editorial, the paper says we honestly do not know what kind of president Barack Obama will be, but we do know that just by attaining the presidency, he has breathed fresh life into the American project.

New York Times

• Obama's Sweeping Triumph: In an editorial, the paper says Barack Obama's triumph was decisive and sweeping, because he saw what is wrong with this country: the utter failure of government to protect its citizens.
• Presidential Poetry: The paper invites five poets as op-ed contributors to reflect on what the paper calls the seemingly endless presidential campaign.

Ottawa Citizen

• American Democracy: In an editorial, the paper says the triumph of Obama won't spell the end of racism in the United States, but it is the beginning of a new, more open, democracy there.

Times of London

• Black President: In an editorial, the paper says the election of an African American president is a moment to savor.
• Changing America: Columnist Daniel Finkelstein writes that the emergence of Barack Obama only happened, only could have happened, because America is changing profoundly. He sets out four reasons why Obama was elected.  
• Dignified McCain: Columnist Ben Macintyre writes that John McCain lost the election in a way that even his worst enemies can respect. History, he says, offers few more admirable presidential failures than Sen. McCain.

Toronto Star

• American Revolution: In an editorial, the paper says that in electing Barack Obama, American voters have ushered in nothing less than a triple revolution spanning racial equality, political renewal, and generational change.

Wall Street Journal

• Congratulations Obama: In an editorial, the paper offers hearty congratulations to President-elect Obama. But it strikes a warning note, saying Americans have entrusted Democrats with what will essentially be unrestrained power, and, it says, we'll soon see if liberals have learned to govern.
• Worrying Election: Harvey Golub, a former chairman and CEO of American Express, is worried at the outcome of the election. I am pessimistic about whether our next president and the savants in Congress can deal with the massive economic issues we face, he writes.
• Bush Slander: Jeffrey Scott Shapiro, an investigative reporter, defends President Bush. The treatment he has received from this country is nothing less than a disgrace he writes: the attacks launched against him have been cruel and slanderous, proving to the world what little character and resolve we have.

Washington Post

• Momentous Election: In an editorial, the paper says the election of Barack Obama is momentous for the generational change it heralds, the geographic realignment it reflects, and the racial progress it both acknowledges and promises.
• Dangerous Victory: CFR senior fellow Michael Gerson says he has deep concerns about the next president. He writes that Obama has stumbled into the most dangerous kind of victory: a mandate for change but not for ideas; a mandate without clear meaning.
• Victory For America: Jonathan Zimmerman of New York University writes that to people around the globe, Obama's victory signals a new American willingness to converse with the world instead of imposing our will upon it.

Washington Times

• Unprepared Battlegrounds: In an editorial, the paper complains that in several battleground states election officials were unprepared for the Tuesday's high turnout. They need to explain why they weren't ready, it says.