Gorbachev hopes for new US policies under Obama

[cal04]

Source: Associated Press

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev says the election of Barack Obama shows the world that the U.S. wants change.

Gorbachev says "the entire world felt that America wanted change and was expecting change."

The 77-year-old Gorbachev spoke Thursday to The Associated Press.

He notes that some in Russia have called Obama the American Gorbachev because of his promises to bring change, or perestroika, to his country.

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[Shardik]

1. We need an "American Peresroika" after eight years of Bush's

megalomaniac-like idiocy.

[ngant17]

2. We need openness as well

Glasnost and perestroika. What good is re-structuring the system if it is still cloaked in secrecy and Homeland Security laws unaccountable to the public?
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[unkachuck]

3. Real change is a hard thing to come by, Mikhail....but hope springs eternal....n/t

[David__77]

4. Gorbachev destroyed a nation.

...

[regnaD kciN]

5. Yes, dammit...!!!

If only the Communist Party still was in power in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, all would be well with the world!

[fed_up_mother]

6. That nation was already destroyed

Ever been there? I have - several times.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

7. that was Boris Yeltsin n/t