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Do racist comments from some prominent Europeans about Barack Obama make you think America is more progressive than Europe?

An Austrian journalist said he "wouldn't want the Western world to be directed by a black man." A Polish lawmaker called the election result "the end of the white man's civilization." Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi praised Obama for being "young, handsome and even suntanned." Some racist comments have come from people who have expressed such views before. "Africa Conquers the White House," read a headline on the Web site of the National Democratic Party of Germany, a political party that sympathizes with neo-Nazi groups. Jürgen Gansel, a party leader in Germany, blamed Obama's victory on "the American alliance of Jews and Negroes." Die Tageszeitung, a Berlin newspaper, predicted Obama's election in June when it published a large front-page photo of the White House under the headline, "Uncle Barack's Cabin."

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