Quick report from Malaysia and Singapore: they want Obama; they REALLY want Obama!

[blondeatlast]

My family just returned from a semi-working vacation in Malaysia and Singapore and I'll report more fully in the Lounge with pics (we took over 2000!) when I'm less fatigued but I will say this:

My husband's professional co-workers, their spouses, local business owners luxury and common, taxi drivers, hotel staff, EVERYONE we could engage in conversation and we try to engage everyone we encounter, are excited and wildly enthusiastic over an Obama win.

We met business acquaintances and fellow travelers from Canada, Europe, Australia, and most of Asia--I only heard one person support the other guy and she was woefully uninformed.

Contrasted with the attitudes we got when visiting Germany and the Czech Republic under similar circumstances two years ago (we encountered open hostility about Bush directed at us, although virtually everyone greeted us with traveler's diplomacy there were a couple of blatant exceptions), that part of the world and elsewhere still has faith in this country to do the right thing this time.

My husband's job takes him all over the world--it looks like his passport is being welcomed again. I might add that he himself CHOSE to become a US citizen even during Bush's first term (you can see my journal for that story). This year, I am proud to say I am American and it seems that attitudes have changed about the US largely because our pResident is seen as being woefully unpopular among our own (it wasn't so apparent to the world 2 years ago) and because we have a candidate that speaks to them as well--which we desperately need. They LOVE that he visited outside the US; they view it as a hopeful gesture.

It appears to this weary American traveller that the world enthusiastically endorses Obama!

[shireen]

1. cool!

i'm originally from Malaysia, and my family can't stand Bush. But I don't talk politics with them, so I have no idea how they feel about Obama (well, to put it more accurately, I rant, they listen!).

It's fantastic to hear that Obama is so popular there!