US President-Elect Barack Hussein Obama was keenly aware the world was transfixed on the 2008 elections as he spoke today in a humble but resolute tone about his foreign policy’s broad strokes.
He clearly knows the free world looks to him to give flesh to America’s continuing role as policeman of the world and foremost exponent of democracy, human rights, and free enterprise.
It does not take too much reading between the lines to understand that the 47-year-old 44th president of America, its historic first black chief executive, will shun dealing with unpopular, corrupt, and authoritarian regimes.
And fully focused on the great task the lies ahead, Mr. Obama was very selective in taking the hundreds of congratulary phone calls from leaders around the world today.
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and so it came to pass…
now the world is watching with bated breath. for many in the domestic scene, it will be “payback” time.
A bit off topic
The PDI has today’s headline “Black in White House”
Who? Jack Black? LOL
Couldn’t they just print “Obama in White House”?
Not off topic bro, in fact your observation exposes how Filipino MSM have not figured out Obama so Inquirer’s editors ‘tabloidishly’ do a cheap shot play on words right just to sell copy? Cheap, ignorant, and pathetic.
Blackshama, (a bit off topic also) perhaps it’s time to change your handle to Barackshama.
cvj,
That takes the cake. LOL. Osama-mo!
Wait, we’re becoming juvenile here.
Back to the post’s point:
Why do you think Mr. Obama has been avoiding somebody’s requests for meetings (when he was just still a candidate) and not taking that same someone’s phone calls?
The worldwide reaction to Obama’s victory shows that the world wants to love America and it wants America to regain its dominant position on the world stage.
Ding, sorry couldn’t resist. Perhaps it’s not intentional. She’s just not that high in his list of priorities at the moment.
Why is the use of “black” such a big deal, when African Americans *do* refer to themselves as blacks?
I’m positing the above in contrast to the word nigger, which in turn comes from “negro”. While “negro” can refer to Spanish word that refers to the color black, its roots come from the Greek word nekros, meaning “dead body” or corpse, and uses also include “pozo negro” (literally, black well) which in Spanish refers to septic tanks.
Black on the other hand is a color, and that’s it, it’s a color, originating for the Old English word for “ink”.
Blackshama was commenting on a matter of taste, Jon. PDI is a broadsheet that bills itself as the newspaper of record and it is bad taste for it to have a tabloid headline.
For the record, I havent seen the headline myself.
Jeg,
Inquirer.net has the headline upfront now.
In terms of taste, my qualms with the title is in terms of grammar. It sounds wrong.
Sobrang pinilit.
Saw it, Jon. Yuck! It’s on the internet so the whole world can theoretically see that PDI sucks.
Jon (@10:45am), is Barack Japanese for Black?
PDI has revised their banner pic noiw… with the us pres-elect tagged as Superb Obama… nagbabawi ng insulto
cvj,
LOL, no, the name Barack has Swahili, Arabic, and Hebrew origins:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004187.html
Thanks Jon. I guess his name has the same etymology as Israel’s former Prime Minister Ehud Barak.
Deja Vu?
Looking at the headlines and pictures on Obama’s landslide victory, the world seems to be saying “We’re All Americans” again. Heard that in 2002 after 9/11 when GW was the top American.