<em>Realistic assessment, not only of Obama , but US as well.US,many of its citizens may not know, is looked upon as a modelof Democracy and Freedom,not with standing the corruption and shenanigans of Politicians.Its ideals are noble.Its execution had a few aberrations, not because the people nor because of lack of ideals or humaneness, but because of self seeking selfish politicians and double guessing the perceived opponents in the world, by seeing them through the prism of US’s ideology.Though well meaning and good at heart the way US goes about helping other Nations,has angered the people world over,even to the extent of hating US, overlooking the help it has rendered to the world.At the same time bull dozing its way with out consensus, treating other Nations as less than equals,though unintentional, has produced anti americanism.
Comes Obama, with his candour,probably after JFK,speaking from the heart and reaching out to people of the world,without preaching,seeking consensus and not confrontation.
A dream called America, can still light the world, that is what we, Non-Americans, hope.Obama seems to be the the one to light .
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‘The millennium goals, for those of you who don’t know, are a persistent nag of a noble, global compact. They’re a set of commitments we all made nine years ago whose goal is to halve extreme poverty by 2015. Barack Obama wasn’t there in 2000, but he’s there now. Indeed he’s gone further — all the way, in fact. Halve it, he says, then end it.
Many have spoken about the need for a rebranding of America. Rebrand, restart, reboot. In my view these 36 words, alongside the administration’s approach to fighting nuclear proliferation and climate change, improving relations in the Middle East and, by the way, creating jobs and providing health care at home, are rebranding in action.
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