After reading a Reader's Digest article this month about Obama's overwhelming international popularity, I wanted to get some international opinions about the now elected President Obama. (WOW!)
More articles from around the world will be published tomorrow, but I wanted to post a few excerpts from this British editorial, taken from "The Guardian". The whole world rests on his shoulders now.
(P.S. The pictures are from the New York Times).
They did it. They really did it. So often crudely caricatured by others, the American people yesterday stood in the eye of history and made an emphatic choice for change for themselves and the world.
Women, minorities, the poor and the highly educated voted Democratic. Men, white people, the rich and the religious delivered for the Republicans.
It is 45 years since Martin Luther King, in the greatest of all late-20th century American speeches looked forward to the day when his children would not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character.
It is a day many thought they would never see. It is hard to know whether to weep or shout for joy now that it has arrived - probably both - but it is a lesson to the world.
Savour those words: President Barack Obama, America's hope and, in no small way, ours too.