Obama Poised to Rebrand America - (great story about how Obama's victory is already changing things)

[scheming daemons]

President-elect Barack Obama is poised to restore the United States' image in the international community, but experts say the president-elect must show the world that his actions will live up to his rhetoric.

Receiving a warm welcome is not the same as maintaining one, and Obama has a lot of work to do to improve the U.S. brand.

America's image has declined in nearly every region of the world in recent years, but Obama's victory "enables the United States to start again with a clean slate," according to John Quelch, the senior associate dean at Harvard Business School.

"Americans can actually go to dinner parties and cocktail receptions around the world today and not have to apologize for the United States the way they have had to do the last several years," he said. "The election has made life a little bit easier for Americans living and traveling abroad to hold their head up high again."
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Read the whole thing. It's a very good story.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/19/obama.world.image/index.html

[DeepModem Mom]

1. K&R!

[bcoylepa]

2. was in Ireland on 11/6

right after the election - I cannot tell you how happy people were - I saw grown men cry talking about election night in our country and just about everyone I met stayed up till 4am to watch Obama's speech
one musician friend of mine told me - "I think I am falling in love with him..."

everyone was very grateful that we did the right thing this time!

[scheming daemons]

3. That's such a great story.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

4. The UK can't wait for Bush to be out of the way

[Lilyeye]

6. This is great to hear. To bad you can't see more of that in the country he was elected in.

I work in a very red/McCain & Palin county in Maryland and some of these people are still pissed about this election.

[Liberal_in_LA]

5. double kick!

[Cha]

7. A very "clean break from the past"!

I had a dream about bush last night and he was drunk on his ass.