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...cowboy-swagger” of the Republican Party. It is Hope for renewed, dignified leadership that is not just multilateral. As Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd noted in his official statement, Obama’s ascendancy comes at a time when the world is in every respect “fearful for its future” and in need of a champion...
...before the election, he became a storybook man over the past year and a half. He has never ceased to be smooth, open, gentlemanly, and cheerful; a man who speaks directly to the camera, doesn’t take money from lobbyists, and treats his wife with the utmost respect in public. He represents the Hope that you can win without seeming to succumb to the game. His politics is not the politics of naivety or of demagoguery. It is the politics of Hope, the politics of what-is-becoming...
What we needed to do was to have dialogue with people of faith. As it turned out, they were the ones that supported Prop 8. I am a Buddhist. We live in a pluralistic society. What's essential in a pluralistic society is mutual respect. There are Christians who support marriage equality, Jews, Hindus. People of faith are decent, fair-minded people, I'm convinced. We failed in [initiating] that dialogue as a campaign...
Most of all, Salter repeatedly praised McCain, a man for whom he has worked for 19 years, and for whom he has boundless respect. He recalled traveling with McCain to Iowa and New Hampshire after his campaign collapsed in 2007 under the weight of mismanagement and poor fund-raising. "There was nothing except a mental and emotional confidence - this is what I set out to do, and I will do this. And if I fail, I fail - but no one will tell me I failed until I have," Salter said. "That must be kind of a glimpse of a kind...
...Chicago's Grant Park, referring to "all those watching tonight from beyond our shores, from parliaments and palaces [and] those who are huddled around radios in the forgotten corners of our world." He could safely assume that the overwhelming majority of his international audience would be cheering his victory. Respect and admiration for his country slumped during President George W. Bush's years in office. Surveys conducted during the campaign showed that if non-Americans were allowed to vote in the U.S. election, Obama would score massive wins in all but a few countries...