Yeah, and Your Elections Are, Like, So Much Cooler

By Melissa August, Val Castronovo, Matthew Cooper, Ling Minhua, Lina Lofaro, Ellin Martens, Benjamin Nugent, Michele Orecklin, Julie Rawe, Sora Song, Josh Tyrangiel

Notebook is outraged. Yes, outraged! Foreigners dare to portray our 2000 presidential election as somehow flawed. Pot calling the kettle black, we say.

FRANCE Liberation: "America awoke Wednesday morning to discover it had no President-elect, and that the Nov. 7 vote was mired in a mixture of banana-republic travesty and suspense worthy of a World Cup final settled by penalty kicks."

BRITAIN the Mirror: "The simplest thing might be for President Clinton to be asked to stay on for another four years. But the way things are in the States at the moment, the letter asking him to do that would probably get lost in the post."

ZIMBABWE Information Minister Jonathan Moyo, to the BBC: "Maybe Africans and others should send observers to help Americans to deal with their democracy."

INDIA Times of India: "As with most American products, the battle for the White House showed the country's flair for turning molehills into mountains."

CUBA Granma: "The epicenter of this political earthquake...was once again the state of Florida and especially Miami, where the Cuban-American terrorist mafia is based and rules."