Obama Lifts Lid on Latent Global Pro-Americanism

A list of the most recent headlines posted by the global news aggregator, Watching America, shows that the Obama phenomenon is sending ripples far and fast. There’s enough global output that WA is continuing its multiple Obama feature with new content into the new week.

Current headlines include,

The Day That Martin Luther King Dreamed Of??(Germany)

Rejection of US Establishment (Germany)

America, Where Hope Never Dies (Australia)

Obama Magic Draws Crowds (Australia)

The big words, Hope, Dreams, Magic and even Martin Luther King, abound!

Watching America was launched during Bush’s presidency, and most of the content it has had to work with from around the world has (therefore) been negative toward the U.S., but almost without exception, the superficially anti-American news and views from Chile to China, Argentina to Australia, hav always been at their core, decidedly pro-American: op-eds that complain about the U.S. very rarely call for wholesale change in what America is, but rather, a return of America to itself – to its own, American, values. The world broadly agrees with Bush on that one: American values are human values.

Obama is lifting the lid on this heretofore latent global pro-Americanism. His skin color and lack of experience do not change the fact that Obama is the truly American choice to many of the pundits and commentators who are looking in at the ’08 election process from the outside – and that is why the world’s press is beginning to use such words as “Hopes” and “Dreams” as much as is the Obama campaign.

See Watching America.com for a regularly updated global round-up of articles on Obama and other U.S.-related issues.