Recent poolls by the BBC and Reader's Digest show that voters abroad preferred Mr Obama to Mr John McCain by big margins. Remember that the one thing countless millions of people around the world "know" about the US is that it is controlled by a cabal of white bankers and Jews, who use police with fire hoses to repress blacks. To them, Mr Obama's rise triggers severe cognitive dissonance.
Europeans like to mock the vapidity of American politics, could you imagine a brown or black person leading France or Germany? Yet, before the US get too far with the self-congratulations, remember that Jamaica's 95% black population elected a white man as its prime minister in 1980, and kept him in office throughout that decade. India is overwhelmingly Hindu but now has a Sikh prime minister.
Look, Mr Obama's skin colour is a bad reason to vote for or against him. Substance should trump symbolism.
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