November 6, 2008

Parisian Reactions to the Obama Victory

In Libération, a Parisian newspaper (translated):
“Yesterday we celebrated the victory of a man who represents the pariahs of American history, the arrival of a messenger of a new age...[a man who is] of mixed race, globalised and aware that the West is not the center of the world. We were a hundred times right to support him.
…The planet is waiting for the New Deal of this century, for a utopia that will work. Is Obama capable of fulfilling this destiny? He definitely has the talent. Yes, he can…”

Scrawled over an advertisement in the metro:
Quand un Obama en France?
(“When an Obama in France?”)

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