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...Obama's victory was brilliant, well-earned, and a real step forward for our multiracial democracy. But heaven protect him from Gibbs and the rest of the over-the-top hallelujah chorus. America's vote will "save it"? I must have missed news of its approaching death. Obama is a "radical departure" from presidents who "were born into power or bred to it"? I guess TIME doesn't remember where Bill Clinton, or Ronald Reagan, or Abraham Lincoln came from. And now Obama's a "prince"? Maybe you should tone it down. Let Obama...
...world press has reacted to the election of Obama as if it were the second coming of Christ. I feel sorry for Obama and the intense pressure of expectation this puts on him. Obama may not be the president who leads America and the rest of the world into a fairer, safer and richer age, but I hope he will at least build the road to that age and take the first steps along it. Good luck, Mr. President. Peter Lucas, Launceston, Tasmania...
...America and the World Pico Iyer's essay in which he says the U.S. needs to be "in tune" with the rest of the world was quite apt [Nov. 17]. A little over a month ago, while my family and I were having dinner in Coullier, France, and discussing the coming election, a British woman overheard us and said very seriously, "The whole world is watching." I regarded the statement as a little overdramatic until I saw how the international community reacted when Obama was elected. I now look back on that night in France and on the night...
This unwillingness to engage with the rest of the world - to risk the sense of security that it enjoys within its own borders - led Kishore Mahbubani, dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, to reply to Rachman's column by saying that Europe was a "political dwarf in ... the rapidly changing geopolitical environment." There's an element of truth to the charge, but it goes too far. For one thing, it ignores the triumphant role of exemplar that the European Union has played in the last two decades. Yes, the pettifogging...
...many Europeans, however, thinking less about the U.S., and more about the rest of the world - about the projection of European power, hard or soft - is not a priority, and it's important to understand why. Europe is a special place at a special time. In France, they refer to the 30 years of economic expansion and modernization after 1945 as the trentes glorieuses, but you can make a case that it is really the last 20 years, since long-accreting rust began to degrade the Iron Curtain in the spring of 1989, that represent Europe's true Golden...