Election of Barack Obama Goes A Long Way In Restoring America's Reputation Around The World

By Sarah Scully on 11/07/2008

It was not just Americans but people all over the world who watched with rapt attention as Barack Hussein Obama became our president-elect. From his former elementary school in Jakarta, to his father's homeland of Kenya, to cynics across the globe who never thought the US, with our history of struggles for racial equality, would be capable of accepting a president with the middle name "Hussein," let alone an African American. It would seem, for a brief time at least, that the election of Barack Obama has suspended much of the ill will that the Bush Administration engendered with their... MORE »