Thursday, March 20, 2008

The First Genuinely 21st-Century Leader

ROGER COHEN of the New York Times, tells us why, if elected president, Barack Obama would be just that:

The China-Indonesia-Kenya-Britain-Hawaii web mirrors a world in flux. In Kenya, his uncle Sayid, a Muslim, told me: “My Islam is a hybrid, a mix of elements, including my Christian schooling and even some African ways. Many values have dissolved in me.”

Obama’s bridge-building instincts come from somewhere. They are rooted and proven. For an expectant and often alienated world, they are of central significance.


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