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Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Obama: The Most American of All Dreams
I just read a translation of a great article in a German newspaper that discusses why Obama is such an amazing candidate for our country in these trying times. I think this article, and articles like it, are the tip of the iceberg in what we'll see from the international press when we nominate Obama:
The best stories often come from America, and there is seldom a more inspiring one as the one that is taking place in front of the world on these January-days of the New Year. Forty years after the death of Martin Luther King, a young black man from Hawaii, Indonesia and Chicago is making his almost inexorable way to the White House. There is not, even in this Hollywood-sculpted country, any better material, any bigger American Dream nor a more successful Happy Ending after eight painful years in the basement of the contemporary history.
He does not only fulfill the desire for a fresh start but also for more warmth in politics, something heroic, with a superlative and glamorous style. He has a pretty wife, two cute little children, an ideal family and he has a real laugh; a radiant laugh. He fulfills the simplest of all longings of a torn nation: To be good again.
It is still a long way off to an electoral victory in November, but those who experience America these days, those who see the tears of the elderly, the radiant eyes of the young, those who hear the enthusiasm of the reporters, the hymns of the columnists, can hardly imagine that this epochal, ancient American story would find another ending other than a furiously Happy Ending.
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