It would be hard to overstate how fervently vast stretches of the globe wanted the election to turn out as it did to repudiate the Bush administration and its policies. Poll after poll in country after country showed only a few — Israel, Georgia, the Philippines — favoring a victory for Senator John McCain. Full Story »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala
This article does well at demonstrating just what America means to the rest of the world. And with Mr. Obama's election that meaning--hope, admiration, wonder, envy, disappointment--begins a new cycle. It is hard to imagine what a McCain victory would have produced; the United States needed so desperately to repudiate the misdeeds of the Bush administration, and perhaps the world needed it even more than we did. So it finishes...and begins.
