The West Coast ...

The San Francisco Chronicle - Bush Reaches Out

The San Jose Mercury News - 'America Has Spoken'

The Los Angeles Times - Bush Wins a Second Term, Outlines Ambitious Goals

The Seattle Times - Victorious Bush wants big changes ... Kerry Concedes ... President Vows 'To Serve All Americans'

The Midwest ...

The Chicago Tribune - Bush rides moral issues, terror fears to 2nd term

The "Twin Cities" Minneapolis St. Paul Star Tribune - A pledge 'to reach out' ... Bush praises Kerry, tells Democrat's backers he will earn their trust

The South ...

Arkansas Democrate Gazette - Bush, GOP Solidly in Driver's Seat

The Atlanta Journal Constitution - America Speaks, Bush Leads Sweep

AP Photo Credit: Richard Lewis

The East ...

The Washington Post - Bush Wins Second Term ... Kerry Concedes Defeat; Both Speak of Need for Unity

The Washington Times - Four more years

Richmond Times-Dispatch - A call for unity

Daily News - Don't Dare Let Us Down

The New York Sun - Bush, Triumphant, Declares A 'Season of Hope'

AFP Photo Credit: Monika Graff

New York Post - America's Verdict: W2 ... Bush seals second term in White House

November 4, 2004 AFP Illustration

The New York Times - Bush Celebrates Victory - After Concession by Kerry, President Cites 'A Duty To Serve All Americans'

Florida ...

The Miami Herald - President Bush, GOP wins firm control of national agenda

The Tampa Tribune - Decisive Victory - A Fast Finish, Then Bush Vows Unity

Nationwide Papers

The Wall Street Journal - Bush, Buoyed by His Conservative Base, Sets More Ambitious Agenda for His Second Term

USA Today - Bush calls win 'historic'

Kerry 48% - "The time will come, the election will come, when your work and your ballots will change the world."

Clear mandate will boost Bush's authority, reach

Bush 51% - "To make this nation stronger and better, I will need your support, and I will work to earn it."

President makes peace offer to political rivals

On the Internet

After Bush's press conference ...

CNN.com - Bush - 'Political capital' earned

MSNBC.com - Setting the agenda

At a news conference Thursday, President Bush said voters gave him "political capital" which he "intends to spend."

Slate.com - He Blew It. Now What? How the Democrats can recover. And what won't work.

Plus: The Exit-Poll Debate

Yahoo! News - Bush Pledges to Make Changes to Tax Code

Off the Wires

Elizabeth Edwards Has Breast Cancer

Outreach Efforts Lures Hispanics to Bush

News.Google.com - President Bush outlines agenda

Dow jumps more than 100 points with Republican Relief Bush celebrates as Democrats look for answers

Netscape.com - Future Candidates Prepare for '08

Bush Outlines 2nd Term Agenda

The Australian - Bush vows to beat terror and unite divided nation

AP Photo Credit: Mark Baker

Financial Review - Bush Sweeps to Victory

Herald - Photo Finish: How Bush Got His Nose In Front

Toronto Star - Four More Years ... Bush pledges to heal wounds

Reuters Photo by Claro Cortes IV in China

China Daily - Hu sends message to Bush, Karzai

President Hu Jintao sent congratulatory messages to US President Bush George W. Bush on his re-election and to Hamid Karzai on his election as president of Afghanistan. In his message to Bush, Hu express his hopes of working together to push Sino-US relations forward.

China and the United States have made significant progress in their relationship, bringing substantial benefit to both countries and playing a positive role in promoting peace and development in Asia Pacific and the rest of the world, Hu said.

"Both China and the United States are great countries and share a wide range of common interests and basis for co-operation. I look forward to continuing to work together to with you to further promote the development of the constructive co-operative relation between China and the Unites States," the message said.

Kathimerini - Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis yesterday sent a telegram to US President George W. Bush, congratulating him on his re-election. In the telegram, Karamanlis express his certainty that the longstanding and close ties between Greece and the USA would continue to develop in the future.

Hindustan Times - Bush Is Back - Battle-Weary Kerry Cedes

In a remarkable showing at the hustings, President George W. Bush has won a second term and his party has returned to the US Congress with expanded majorities in both the Senat and House of Representatives.

Bush's victory, halted temporarily by a gathering storm over counting of provisional ballots in Ohio, came about 11 am ET (9:30 pm IST) when Democratic challenger John Kerry called him up and conceded the election.

Other papers in India including The Times of India, Udayavani Daily and Malayala Manorama announced Bush's victory.

The Irish Times - Bush carries the day

After winning another four years in the White House, U.S. President George Bush yesterday pledged to work for the trust of all Americans and to wage the war on terror "with every resource of our national power".

AP Photo Credit: Sayyid Azim

Daily Nation - Victory for Bush ... And Kenya's Obama wins by landslide

The East African - Barack Obama ... Dreams from My Father, The autobiography of Barack Obama, the man analysts say could one day become America's first black president

New Zealand Herald - Born-again Bush set to break more eggs and build a legacy

George W. Bush is no longer the "Accidental President".

In capturing both an electoral majority and the popular vote, Mr. Bush lays claim to another four years in the White House with a newly minted mandate to deal with a troubling war abroad and unfinished work at home.

So how will he govern?

His biggest task will be reaching across party line in a nation divided and rewarding Republicans who were motivated by value and who put him back in office.

Of Rugged Elegant Living's 400,000 monthly readers one wrote today to say, "My wife, a Kiwi, and I, a Proud American born and raised from the Bay Area are now living in New Zealand. My entire family and I are Very Happy President, George W Bush Won the Election! Also, the majority of the Talk Shows Hosts and Callers are Happy about the Re-Election of President Bush.

Take Care and God Bless you All! Victor and Anita Silveira

Reuters Photo by Faisal Mahmood

Business Recorder - George Bush re-elected US president

Philippines Daily Inquirer - Moral values won the vote - Catholics, Protestants rally around 'Dubya' - Leaders anxious but hail Bush win

In The Philippines, the Kabayan also covered Bush's win on their front page.

Portugal News - Lisbon hopeful of continued good relations with U.S.

President Jorge Sampaio of Portugal expressed hope on Wednesday that a second term for US President George Bush would be marked by a "new wisdeom", leading to greater peace and multilateral cooperation.

The photograph was not of Bush but a morphed photo of the top of Bush's head combined with the bottom of Kery's head.

Russian Papers - AP Photo by Misha Japaridze

Moscow Times - Papers Say Russia Is Better Off With Bush

Most Russian newspapers declared Russia better off with a re-elected U.S. President George W. Bush and turned to horseradish, idiots and President Vladimir Putin's frienship with Bush to argue the points.

"It's in the Hat" read the headline next to a picture of Bush adjusting a cowboy hat in the popular daily Moskovsky Komsomolets.

"Bush's victory is beneficial for Russia," Alexander Livshits, Putin's former economic advisor, wrote in a commentary next to the article. "We know him, we know members of his team. We are used to them and they are used to us.

"Furthermore, George Bush's administration does not tell us how to live. It does not interfere much with our country's domestic affairs. And the personal relationship that our two presidents have established is also important."

Moskovsky Komsomolets did take the opportunity to offer a comment on U.S. domestic affairs. "The 2004 elections showed that a party that comes out in favor of abortions and supports the demands of gays for legal marriages and demands of the scientific community to allow stem-cell research on human embryos cannot currently govern the United States," it editorialized.

Russia's papers Vremia Novostiey and Trud also covered the U.S. election results.

Arab News - Bush Wins as Kerry Concedes - W2: But Who Is He?

With President George W. Bush re-elected for a second term, the Middle East and the Muslim world beyond would do well to take a second look at the man who would lead the American "superpower" for four more years.

Who is George W. Bush? Is he a bumbling, low IQ rich kid, playing dummy for sinister ventriloquists? Or is he the populist demagogue in blue shirtsleeves out to sell the gullible Americans a bill of good?

If he is any of those things one must wonder how he has succeeded in persuading more than 50 million Americans to vote for him for a second time.

Is it not possible that he may be a traditional conviction politician of the kind that became endangered species after the cultural revolutions of the 1960s?...

Unlike European, and some American politicians, who deal in shades of gray, Bush sees the world in black and white terms. When Bush says: You are either with us or against us, he really means it. He perceives of good and evil as physical realities, and not metaphysical abstractions, affecting the lives of both individuals and nations. French President Chirac likes to call Bush "a cowboy" while Japanese Premier Koizumi describes him as "Gary Cooper at High Noon".

According to an old Arab saying a man is best known through his enemies rather than his friends. The logic of this is that a bad man might choose good friends. Well, here are some of Bush's enemies: Mulla Omar, Osama Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein and, oh yes, the speculator George Soros.

Some world leaders have tried to understand George W. Bush based on what they know of his father's tenure as president. The older Bush, however, was a classical style balance of power player raised on a fare of Cold War politics. To him the highest call of politics was to defend and perpetuate the status quo. The younger Bush, on the other hand, is a change-maker, as evidence in his domestic and foreign policies.

Today - It's Bush Again - Kerry concedes defeat after Ohio cliffhanger, Bush wins clear majority of popular vote, Electorate backs foreign, security policies, Republicans up presence in House, Senate

Dagens Nyheter - Bush Is Taking Control, Republicans Increase in the Congress, Financial Markets are Positive to Bush's Victory, "The President Knows How To Get Want He Wants"

Goteborgs-Posten - Four More Years for Bush

The story can be found on page 4 and 5 of the paper.

24 Heures - Bush Is Taking Control, Republicans Increase in the Congress, Financial Markets are Positive to Bush's Victory, "The President

Israeli Boy Reads About Bush's Victory

If I knew thirty languages I'd translate the headlines for you. These are some of the other papers around the world that hailed Bush on their front page as the leader of the free world for the next four years -- in their own language:

Argentina - Clarin and La Nacion

Austria - Kleine Zeitung Karnten, Kleine Zeitung Steiermark, Neue Vorarlberger Tagezeitung and Vorarlberger Nachrichten

Belgium - De Standard, Het Nieuwsblad and Le Soir

Reuters Photo of Brazil Newspapers by Jamil Bittar

Brazil - Folha De S. Paulo, Gazeta Mercantil, O Estado de Sao Paolo, Valor Economico, Zero Hora

Bulgaria - Pari

Croatia - Vjesnik

Czech Republic - DNES

Denmark - Berlingske Tidende and Borsen Dagblad

Ecuador - Hoy

El Salvador - La Prensa Grafica

France - Aujourd'hui en France and Liberation

Germany - Die Zeit and Handelsblatt

Guatemala - Nuestro Diario

Iceland - Morgunbladid

Iraq Newspapers - AFP Photo Credit: Essam al-Sudani

Italy - Corriere della Sera, Il Giornale and La Stampa

Japan - Okinawa Times

Lebanon - Al-Mustaqbal, An-Nahar and L'Orient Le Jour

Liechtenstein - Liechtensteiner Volksblatt

Netherlands - Algemeen Dagblad and Nederlands Dagblad

Norway - Dagbladet

Oman - Times of Oman

Poland - Gazeta Wyborcza

Romania - Bihari Naplo, Jurnal Banatean and Jurnal Bihorean

Slovakia - Pravda

South Africa - Die Burger

Spain - El Mundo

Switzerland - 24 Heures, Basler Zeitung, Der Bund, Le Matin (Kerry is on the cover), Le Temps, Neue Zurcher Zeitung am Sonntag and Tribune De Geneve

Turkey - Hurriyet (Bush's daughters are on the cover), Milliyet, Radikal, Zaman

Iraqi reading about Bush's re-election - AFP Photo by Sabah Arar

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