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How Europe Sees the Candidates - Gerard Baker

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Channel: FORA.tv · 2008 · News & Politics

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Times of London U.S. Editor and Columnist Gerard Baker discusses how U.S. Presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain are viewed in the eyes of the European public, in a conversation with New Republic Editor Frank Foer.

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Gerard Baker is United States Editor and an Assistant Editor of The Times. He joined in 2004 from the Financial Times, where he had spent over ten years as Tokyo correspondent and Washington Bureau Chief.

Franklin Foer is an American political journalist and the editor of The New Republic. Foer graduated from Columbia in 1996. Before joining The New Republic, Foer was a frequent contributor to the online magazine Slate. His writing has also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Spin, U.S. News and World Report, Lingua Franca, The Atlantic Monthly, The Wall Street Journal, New York and Foreign Policy. In 2004 he published his first book, How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization.

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