The World Hopes for Its First President

To davecm2007: Somehow I think you didn???t read my posts correctly. I am smart enough (and I find that offensive) to know that I am not voting for Jeremiah Wright. It isn???t fear or any fearmongering that is motivating me. And I???m not Angry, I am Passionate???.and there is a different. I can make my case, state my point of view without having to throw mud and insults (that usually results from fear and Anger). This is just a part and of what I said???
3. And this isn't necessarily him(Obama) personally, but the whole thing. I am sick and tired of having the race card shoved down my throat. I'm tired that I keep getting told that somehow Reverend Wrights, Bill Ayers, etc... are somehow acceptable. That I am suppose to accept that Rev. Wrights hateful, racist and mean words and attitude are okay and understandable, that I have to understand where he is coming from....WRONG...AIN'T BUYING INTO IT. Mean and hateful is just plain mean and hateful and it is never acceptable from ANYONE FOR ANY REASON.
At first I even respected how he dealt with Rev. Wright, I understood his comment that he was like family and that you don't just up and turn your back on family. Goodness knows we all have skeletons and people we love that do questionable actions, that we don't agree with. Wouldn't necessarily want the world looking at my life through a microscope. .....Where he lost me was thinking that I was dumb enough to think that in over 20 years of their relationship that HE (Obama)NEVER KNEW THAT SIDE OF HIM. And that somehow I was suppose to be UNDERSTANDING.

Republicans are JEALOUS that the WHOLE WORLD looks the democrat candidate with RESPECT and looks Bush and McCain- Palin for the brain-less they are!

And this is a good thing? We can't take care of our own. I mean witness the hordes of people that are so clueless as to the founding fathers vision for this country that they think the second amendment has something to do with defending your property or hunting. Or those children whose schools felt that only post-Civil War history is relevant today. Like bugs to the zapper they fly on to Hope....

Um, here's a tip: the world may be interested in this election, but to say the electee will be president of the world is just a teeny stretch, even for you, don't you think? Grandiose ideas couched in the superlative only create resentment. Remember the French Revolution? Get a clue.

Of course "the world has never watched any vote, in any nation, so closely"! Do you actually realize the incredible incompetence with which the US have managed problems (which the US often created on their own!) in the past 8 years? Geez, please open your eyes and stop this unfounded narcissistic crap!

I hope that people in other countries know that many MANY Americans have been fighting for change here for a long time! I've already voted for Obama, and have spent the last few days calling swing states for him. We're doing what we can to help! We'd like very much to have respect in the world again.

Obama frenzy is hotter than the Dar days here in Tanzania..

In the warren of crafts stalls at Mwenge, one store sports a new sign: The Barack Obama We Hope Shop. At the police station where I report my stolen bag, the cop begs for my button (but I???ve already lost enough!).

On the ferry to Zanzibar, a young man confides he actually met the Big Man in Muncie, Indiana while visiting there. ???Yes, my country needs him,??? I reply.

???The WORLD needs Obama,??? corrects another passenger.

???I???m Canadian, and we???d all vote for him if we could,??? offers a balding man with a seasick bag at the ready.

In the marketplace, a man smiles in recognition and follows me, calling, ???Mrs. Obama, Mrs. Obama!??? A tall Masaii tribesman beams brightly above the colorful beadwork at his neck, hails me with his spear and delivers an unlikely campaign speech in English.

, I wish I could convey to Americans back home that their votes affect not only us, but the world.
Standing in our embassy in Dar awaiting my emergency replacement passport, I joined two Tanzanian guards watching the vice presidential debates on an overhead television. The pair was rapt, glancing from the screen only when I snorted disagreement or cheered approval.I suddenly wished all Americans were as interested in the campaign, as well-informed as people half a world away.

My friend Beth and I commiserate in disbelief about our brothers ??? hers in North Carolina, mine in Alabama. Both have swallowed the propaganda that Obama is actually a Muslim, funded by terrorists intent on taking over the U.S. Government from the inside. ???Have aliens stolen his brain???? Beth muses.

Yet in Holland, two Americans abroad for their first time wonder whether I fear my Muslim friends in Tanzania. They were the first to comfort me after 9/11, I explain patiently, the first to lend me money recently when I was robbed. The ???M word??? does not automatically translate to the ???T word???, I long to shout at people like them and my brother.

I sport a gray, Tanzanians For Obama T-shirt, his face tri-colored in green, yellow and black like the Tanzanian flag. But my sentiment ??? my patriotic HOPE ??? is strictly red, white and blue.
Jann www.bibijann.org

Im Not an American citizen, there-fore I do know my right NOT to interfere with your right on how you???re going to vote in electing your President. Thats not the Point here for discussion but I do believe that Everyones entitle to express his own view and opinion that base on Honesty and Decency as their principles.

I dont agree with your views on the world???s prospective comment, when you said that the world knows ???Nut??? about America! .Lets me correct YOU, for God???s sake for once please move your head out of Sand .When the poll said only 9% of Americans said that America are in the RIGHT Track and I dont be surprise that you???re one of the few of them. This also validates what already the ???World???s Views???, that???s wrong and happening to USA politics now.

We can agree to be disagree but, please come out with the right Substances principles not Whats Your own Right to be Judge as the only Right that base on Smears, Lies and your Hypocrites substances.
Be ASHAME

Jann Mitchell in Sweden says about visit toTanzania: Obama frenzy is hotter than the Dar days.
In the warren of crafts stalls at Mwenge, one store sports a new sign: The Barack Obama We Hope Shop. At the police station where I report my stolen bag, the cop begs for my button (but I???ve already lost enough!).
On the ferry to Zanzibar, a young man confides he actually met the Big Man in Muncie, Indiana while visiting there. ???Yes, my country needs him,??? I reply.???The WORLD needs Obama,??? corrects another passenger.
???I???m Canadian, and we???d all vote for him if we could,??? offers a balding man with a seasick bag at the ready.
In the marketplace, a man smiles in recognition and follows me, calling, ???Mrs. Obama, Mrs. Obama!??? A tall Masaii tribesman beams brightly above the colorful beadwork at his neck, hails me with his spear and delivers an unlikely campaign speech in English. I wished I could convey to Americans back home that their votes affect not only us, but the world. Standing in our embassy in Dar awaiting my emergency replacement passport, I joined two Tanzanian guards watching the vice presidential debates on an overhead television. The pair was rapt, glancing from the screen only when I snorted disagreement or cheered approval.
I suddenly wished all Americans were as interested in the campaign, as well-informed as people half a world away. My friend Beth and I commiserate in disbelief about our brothers ??? hers in North Carolina, mine in Alabama. Both have swallowed the propaganda that Obama is actually a Muslim, funded by terrorists intent on taking over the U.S. Government from the inside. ???Have aliens stolen his brain???? Beth muses. Muslim friends in Tanzania. They were the first to comfort me after 9/11,, the first to lend me money recently when I was robbed. The ???M word??? does not automatically translate to the ???T word???, I long to shout at people like them and my brother., Tanzanians For Obama T-shirt, his face tri-colored in green, yellow and black like the Tanzanian flag. But my sentiment ??? my patriotic HOPE ??? is strictly red, white and blue.

Only those who working for NEWSWEEK can write such an article under such a low IQ title. Can this world really has a "ITS " president NOW? You guys are so advanced, I guess even the communists couldn't catch your imagination. If Mr. Obama do become the world's president, as American citizen I have right to ask: Whose benefit he will protect when this practical world gets into conflicts which happened all the time?

yes i can

Of course Obama will not be a 'liberal' candidate in the face of the myriads of crisis facing the world. He needs to be pragmatic if he wants to rule the world. He cannot afford to sidetrack one group of countries or browbeat those who do not always agree with the American way of doing things. Instead he should seek to build a coalition out of the divergent opinions that abounds in the world. Obama is intelligent enough to know that those who disagree with the US on principle are not enemies and that reaching out to them would do the world a lot of good.