NYT: The World Reacts -Just Beautiful (Dial Up Warning)

[nam78_two]

London:


New Delhi:


Hong Kong:


Beijing:


Indonesia:


Paris:


Amsterdam (The refrain from Mr. Obama's campaign, "Yes We Can," is written on the window of the American Book Centre in Amsterdam):


Manilla:


Kenya:






Accompanying article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/05/us/politics/05global.html

The Promise: For Many Abroad an Ideal Renewed

GAZA — From far away, this is how it looks: There is a country out there where tens of millions of white Christians, voting freely, select as their leader a black man of modest origin, the son of a Muslim. There is a place on Earth — call it America — where such a thing happens.

Even where the United States is held in special contempt, like here in this benighted Palestinian coastal strip, the “glorious epic of Barack Obama,” as the leftist French editor Jean Daniel calls it, makes America — the idea as much as the actual place — stand again, perhaps only fleetingly, for limitless possibility.

“It allows us all to dream a little,” said Oswaldo Calvo, 58, a Venezuelan political activist in Caracas, in a comment echoed to correspondents of The New York Times on four continents in the days leading up to the election.

Tristram Hunt, a British historian, put it this way: Mr. Obama “brings the narrative that everyone wants to return to — that America is the land of extraordinary opportunity and possibility, where miracles happen.”

But wonder is almost overwhelmed by relief. Mr. Obama’s election offers most non-Americans a sense that the imperial power capable of doing such good and such harm — a country that, they complain, preached justice but tortured its captives, launched a disastrous war in Iraq, turned its back on the environment and greedily dragged the world into economic chaos — saw the errors of its ways over the past eight years and shifted course.

More at the link :bounce:
Please post awesome pics you find like these here :D!

[PVnRT]

1. You know, seeing the rest of the world NOT hate us

is a wonderful thing.

[nam78_two]

7. I suspect it was some of our so-called leaders they hated rather than us

Us as in average citizens.

[PVnRT]

11. I agree, but

when was the last time you saw someone in another country smiling while holding an American flag? For eight years, it seems like they only burned them.

[nam78_two]

15. True

Good turnaround :)!

[Call Me Wesley]

2. Here's an online gallery I posted earlier.

Some dupes, but still worth to look through it.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x7787684

:hi:

[nam78_two]

3. Hey CMW-beautiful montage!

:hi:
I love those :).

[Cha]

18. Thanks, those are

precious, too.

[SoonerPride]

4. It is nice to see them not burning American flags, but wrapping themselves in them.

The world still very much cares about this country and hungers for her leadership.

[loudsue]

10. The world here in North Carolina hungers for that same leadership.

Man! We've had a long drought. This thread just warms my heart. Those of us in the U.S. who have felt like we had suddenly become invisible share the love that the rest of the world feels.

Ya know: I kind of feel sorry for all the freepers. They are missing such a beautiful shared sentiment and feeling of safety and connectedness with PEOPLE and the EARTH (as opposed to wars and corporate control).

[Reterr]

26. NC has delighted me

I have a ton of family there. So happy for them.

[FVZA_Colonel]

5. It's like the end of Return of the Jedi.

[JHB]

13. Nah. I'd be a lot happier if there was a Darth smoking over a pit...

...but we don't have that yet.

[City Lights]

6. Here come the tears again... nt

[nam78_two]

9. Yeah my eyes and head feel pretty heavy this morning

Oh well...crying after this 8 year nightmare was cathartic...

[City Lights]

12. Agreed. I welcome tears of pride and joy after the Bush years of shame. nt

[Genevieve]

24. crynig again as well. nt

[crickets]

8. Look at the joy on those faces. Lovely! -nt

[AlCzervik]

14. and no American flags on fire, is this great or what?

[Scurrilous]

16. K & R

:thumbsup:

[blondeatlast]

17. I was in Malaysia and Singapore this last summer. Cabbies to CEOs and everyone between,

all they wanted to talk about was Obama. Sufh hope and excitement and promise in their conversations!

God, what a great day it is. Sometime after the first of the year, I will expat to Germany (Mr B@L has a great opportunity there).

It's good to go with pride in my country again (I visisted in 2006 and was reticent about revealing my citizenship).

[nam78_two]

20. Same with extended family we have in India

Most Indians (in India) I have met recently seem to be strongly pro-Obama.

Sometime after the first of the year, I will expat to Germany (Mr B@L has a great opportunity there).

Awww you are leaving just when it is getting good around here :)! But yeah it will be nice for people to not have to masquerade as Canadians when abroad.

[blondeatlast]

22. Mr. B is Indian and became a citizen in March 2005.

He was so very proud to vote yesterday I decided to hold back my early ballot and accompany him. I just sobbed like crazy. We got the news on Monday so it was very bittersweet but we'll definitely return in a few years.

AZ sunrises are absolutely stunning anyway but today it was just spectacular. Ccoincidence? Hard to say.

I'm sobbing again--this is a VERY bittersweet time for me...

[shireen]

19. love those photos from Kenya

i'm dying to learn more about how his Kenyan family reacted and celebrated, esp. Grandma Sarah. They must be so happy and proud of him!!!
:D

[onefreespiritedchick]

21. This is just touching...

Moves me to tears. Thanks for sharing.

[nam78_two]

25. I know-just warms me up inside

I was listening to RW radio (I know-shoot me now; I just wanted to hear what they were saying) and it was this moron called Phil Valentine and he was just going on and on about socialism, black people voting for Obama being racist (:eyes:) and on and on. All they do is market fear and suspicion. Some seriously joyless people there.
Contrast that with the hopeful, joyous rainbow coalition that supports Obama, with young people supporting him by margins greater than 2:1. I haven't felt this hopeful or proud in years :).

[underpants]

23. I grew up in the cold war-we WERE the good guys

looks like we just might be again