Obama's Bubble
The United States has elected it's first African American President, Barack Obama. To his credit Obama ran a very competent campaign albeit thin on substance. The campaign targeted young people and new voters with empty slogans like hope , Chang e and chants of "y es we can ". For all the talk about racism, Obama's created a financial behemoth, raising over $600,000,000-more than any presidential candidate in US history! To say the newspaper headlines around the world were euphoric is a gross understatement. One UK headline read " One giant leap for mankind ", a poster in Italy read " The world has changed ". There were celebrations in London, Kenya and Australia. " What an inspiration. He is the first truly global U.S. president the world has ever had ," said Pracha Kanjananont, a 29-year-old Thai sitting at a Starbuck's in Bangkok, Thailand. Rama Yade, France's Junior minister of Human rights said 'this is the fall of t