« New White House Website Open To Search Engines
And Now, Some Skepticism »

The World Watches Obama Inauguration

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Barack, The World, Video

NBC reports…

As I scan the wires I do get a sense that people all across the globe are genuinely inspired that Obama has become President.

What’s your take on it?


This entry was posted on Wednesday, January 21st, 2009 and is filed under Barack, The World, Video. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “The World Watches Obama Inauguration”

  1. Donovan Keith Says:
    January 21st, 2009 at 1:55 pm

    I’ve been traveling through Asia for the past 4 months and every conversation with a local goes something like this:

    LOCAL
    Where are you from?

    ME
    The United States. America.

    LOCAL
    Obama! We like Obama.

    ME
    Yes, I like him too.

    [pause]

    LOCAL
    Did you vote for Obama?

    ME
    Yes.

    LOCAL
    Good. Good. Bush will be gone in [exact number of days until inauguration]

    Suffice to say, people the world over are excited about this. I just got to Egypt and the amount of hope and expectation placed on Obama is more extreme than what’s going on in the States.

  2. Mark-NC Says:
    January 25th, 2009 at 10:22 am

    Donovan Keith has this right. I know several people from Europe and the Middls East. The sentiment is the same everywhere – great hope for Obama to bring back the America that everybody wants to believe in, and great relief that Bush is gone!

Leave a Reply


NOTE TO COMMENTERS:


You must ALWAYS fill in the two word CAPTCHA below to submit a comment. And if this is your first time commenting on Donklephant, it will be held in a moderation queue for approval. Please don't resubmit the same comment a couple times. We'll get around to moderating it soon enough.


Also, sometimes even if you've commented before, it may still get placed in a moderation queue and/or sent to the spam folder. If it's just in moderation queue, it'll be published, but it may be deleted if it lands in the spam folder. My apologies if this happens but there are some keywords that push it into the spam folder.


One last note, we will not tolerate comments that disparage people based on age, sex, handicap, race, color, sexual orientation, national origin or ancestry. We reserve the right to delete these comments and ban the people who make them from ever commenting here again.


Thanks for understanding and have a pleasurable commenting experience.


Related Posts: