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06 Jun 2008 12:00 pm
Email From Abroad
A reader writes:
I am an American who is a graduate student in the UK, and I have been
congratulated by people from around the world over the past couple of
days for the Obama nomination. Strangers hear my accent, and want to
talk about Obama. One British person said, "America didn't become the
nation it did with guns and tanks; it became the nation it did with
ideas. An Obama presidency represents everything that America has told
the world about itself in the past century--and what the rest of the
world wanted to expect out of America. The idea that you talk before
acting, the idea that you make friends, not enemies, and the idea that
anything is possible."
Another Italian told me, "Obama will cause my
country to fall in love with America again."
Soft power?
Most Americans have not quite absorbed the enormous blow to America's image abroad delivered by the Bush administration. Obama has helped erase it already.
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