Congratulations to Obama

Over the years I have often found myself defending Americans from such critics as the French or Arabs, who charge the people of the U.S. are ignorant racist idiots. I have tried to talk to those critics, but naturally I got nowhere. Maybe the election of Barack Obama as president of the United States will tell them how wrong they are. Only the heartless were not moved last night when Obama was announced the winner of the presidency.

Now all kinds of people are optimistic. American Tom Friedman writes that now we can all know that anything is possible in this country.

Even the French Le Monde has a positive take on Obama. Arab journalist Abdel Bari Atwan writes that he is hopeful that U.S. foreign policy will shift toward the Palestinians. And Iraqis don’t expect changes from Obama regarding Iraq.

So congratulations to Barack Obama. Let no one say this is not an amazing country.