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NEW YORK: Why do Europeans adore America's president-elect, Barack Obama? Stupid question, you might say. He is young, handsome, smart, inspiring, educated, cosmopolitan, and above all, he promises a radical change from the most unpopular American administration in history.

Compare that to his rival John McCain, who talked about change, but to most Europeans represented the opposite.

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Human rights are sacred

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