‘We are All Americans.’ Most of us recall that phrase used by the French the day after September 11, 2001. After all of the events of the past eight years and the deterioration of America’s image, few would have predicted hearing it again. But we are.
Since the election of President-elect Obama, I have personally seen the phrase in at least three articles we have posted from around the world.
This article from Brazil’s Folha is not only an article of adulation for Barack Obama, but a staunch defense of the United States and a rejection of its critics.
For Folha, Sergio Malbergier writes about Obama:
“Never before in the history of this planet has a mixed-race person of African descendent been its most powerful inhabitant. Even though the polls have already indicated Barack Obama’s victory, it is so epic and multidimensional that it fills us with amazement and exhilaration.”
Then, striking out at America’s critics, Malbergier says:
“So much the better that it’s the United States shining this renewing ray of light on the depressed global arena. Among the truly terrible things bequeathed by eight years of Bushism, perhaps the worst is the sharp and stupid anti-Americanism.
“As irrational as it is widespread, this nurtures, and for some it justifies, obscurantist and dangerous forces like Russian neo-Czarism, Chinese absolutism, Chavista petro-populism, Iranian nuclear messianism and Islamo-fascist terrorism.
“Absurd concepts such as that the U.S. is a nation of brute, ignorant and hickish people are spit forth by the supposed worldwide intelligentsia, despite the fact that the country has the best universities on the planet, is the biggest producer and consumer of culture, is the most innovative and creative nation of technologies, has the highest number of Nobel prize winners, invented the Internet and YouTube, and is by far world’s largest economy.”
By Sérgio Malbergier
Translated By Brandi Miller
November 6, 2008
Brazil – Floha – Original Article (Portuguese)
Never before in the history of this planet has a mixed-race person of African descendent been its most powerful inhabitant. Even though the polls have already indicated Barack Obama’s victory, it is so epic and multidimensional that it fills us with amazement and exhilaration.
Obama is a global phenomenon; his victory reflects not only the choice of most Americans, but the great majority of human beings – which gives him even more legitimacy as a leader. And leadership will be needed to get the world out of this recession that remains of unknown size, but looks like it will be ugly.
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