Choice of Biden as VP candidate praised overseas

By ARTHUR MAX, Associated Press Writer Sat Aug 23, 6:56 PM ET

ACCRA, Ghana - From confronting Russia to dealing with climate change, Barack Obama's selection of Sen. Joe Biden as his vice presidential candidate Saturday was seen abroad as adding weight and depth to the foreign policy of a potential Obama administration.

European analysts said the crisis in the Caucasus provided an appropriate backdrop to Biden's nomination.

In Accra, experts attending a U.N. climate change convention said Obama was sending a strong signal of change on what many see as a foreign policy debacle by the outgoing Bush administration regarding the battle against global warming.

As long as the French don't like him! If the French like him and Obama BOTH, the Democrats are doomed with the American populace!

Bro, what is going on with the ?'s and the â–¡'s ???

I read French badly enough, I'm lucky if I'm getting half of that, lol...

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I guess that it's nice if foreigners approve of our choices but does anyone really care if they do or not? I know that I don't, anymore than they should care what I think of their leaders.

I guess that it's nice if foreigners approve of our choices but does anyone really care if they do or not? I know that I don't, anymore than they should care what I think of their leaders.

I guess that it's nice if foreigners approve of our choices but does anyone really care if they do or not? I know that I don't, anymore than they should care what I think of their leaders.

As Madonna kicked off her international "Sticky and Sweet" tour Saturday night, she took a none-too subtle swipe at the presumptive Republican nominee for U.S. president.

Amid a four-act show at Cardiff's packed Millennium Stadium, a video interlude carried images of destruction, global warming, Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, Zimbabwe's authoritarian President Robert Mugabe _ and U.S. Senator John McCain. Another sequence, shown later, pictured slain Beatle John Lennon, followed by climate activist Al Gore, Mahatma Gandhi and finally McCain's Democratic rival Barack Obama.