I think they call it HOPE.
Remember my post a few months ago about how none of the overseas newspapers were focusing on the United States? That we should impeach Bush so we could repair our nations reputation in the world? And that "we can take the first of a thousand steps to repair our nations world image" but we just weren't making headlines?
Hope springs eternal. This week on Al Jazeera online (All jazzerie, all the time), "World reacts to Obama's Victory". This gives the offical statements from about 20 different nations around the world. We're a Hit!
With all the optimism this regime change has inspired, we could coast along just on Karma for the first year of Obama's first term (first of five terms I predict. Keep on waiting Hillary).
The best official quote, the first to make me cry just a little was from Britain's housing minister: "It absolutely shakes people's perceptions of the America they loved to hate."
Many of the Comments/Feedback at the bottom of the page are also heartwarming. But if for nothing else, check out the Obama cartoon on the headline picture banner from the China celebration.
I feel all hopefulity inside.
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Oh snap....Now we have to straighten up and act like civilized humans again lest we lose this not quite yet earned respect from savage, unchristain, unsettled nation....balls!
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