LONDON - Wikileaks founder Julian Assange described President Barack Obama as a "wolf in sheep's clothing" and said he expected the US government to keep attacking the anti-secrecy website. Speaking from Ecuador's London embassy, where he sought asylum in June to avoid extradition to Sweden over sex crime allegations, Assange said Obama's victory was nothing to celebrate. "Obama seems to be a nice man, and that is precisely the problem," the Australian said. "It's better to have a sheep in wolf's clothing than a wolf in sheep's clothing." AFP
BELLINGHAM, Washington - It's four more years and 10,000 more papers for Thomas Baldwin of Birch Bay, Washington. When Barack Obama was first elected in 2008, Baldwin bought 10,000 copies of the Bellingham Herald's election edition. And now that Obama has won his bid for re-election, Baldwin has put in another order for 10,000 of the Herald's election papers. While he figures he might be able to make a profit selling the papers, he also thinks they are an inspiring reminder of Obama's journey to become the first black president. NYT
WASHINGTON - The US state of Oklahoma on Tuesday executed a murderer who made a reference to the "very close race" for the White House in his final words. Garry Thomas Allen was declared dead by lethal injection just under an hour after polls closed in the state. "Obama won two out of three counties," Allen said shortly before he was put to death, according to Jerry Massie of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections. "It's going to be a very close race." AFP