View from Abroad
“If Obama can make a difference, it is not because of his policy choices, but because of what he is. The very moment he appears on the world’s television screens, victorious and smiling, America’s image and soft power would experience something like a Copernican revolution.”
–Dominique Moisi, founder and senior adviser at the French Institute for International Relations, in an op-ed in Lebanon’s Daily Star newspaper.
January 4th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
That is so truth. The moment the USA can present a person as Obama as president, somebody so far away from the usual historical candidates that will blow out the minds of the world population and give the USA a name into the nations of the rest world as a country of possibilities. The USA critics will have to work very hard to dismiss that fact.
January 7th, 2008 at 4:00 am
Electing the best person for the position is the goal. Obama lacks experience in every aspect of what a president must have to run a country and be the leader. We are not worried about “blowing out the minds of the world population” so we can have a name into the nations of the rest of the world as a country of possibilities. Critics come and go. The bottom line is we have not suffered a terror attack since 9/11/2001 and hopefully we will not have another. However, countries such as Germany, France and other critics are less prepared for the certain march of terrorism and radical Islam and will understand our stance once they suffer an unacceptable loss of innocent victims under the circumstances that we did. No excuses from the USA. We do what is necessary to protect our country.