Of JFK, Mrs. Heinz Kerry and haircuts:World turns toward White House race

[Feanorcurufinwe]

Kerry's name has danced across newspaper pages from Geneva to Santiago since back-to-back wins in Iowa and New Hampshire made him an early front-runner to be the Democratic Party's nominee. "The new JFK who could stand up to George Bush," Geneva daily Le Temps said of Kerry. "JFK is ahead," added Le Matin.

"'Anybody But Bush' determining campaign," declared the left-leaning Volkskrant newspaper in the Netherlands, where the president is generally unpopular, mostly because of the Iraq war. Aside from the initials, Chile's La Segunda noted other parallels between Kerry and John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th president: Both decorated war veterans, Massachusetts politicians and Roman Catholics. "JFK is not far from becoming president," the tabloid said in a half-page profile, spelling his name "John F. K...erry."

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A perennial fascination overseas is also the key role of money and image in U.S. politics. Even the main contenders' hairstyles have been grist for the British left-leaning daily The Guardian.

Kerry's "looks half-man, half-badger," the newspaper said, while Howard Dean's part is "a good inch too close to his left ear" and Wesley Clark "has a faintly absurd comb-over."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/02/02/international1432EST0688.DTL

[molly]

1. Europe is most defintely ABB!!

[stopthegop]

2. but they don't get to vote...n/t

[DebJ]

3. maybe if they had been able to vote here in 2000 we'd be better off

today! Just kidding...but Europeans seem generally much more active and informed about US politics then most US citizens!