They did it, they really did it!
When I watched Barack Obama’s acceptance speech upon receiving confirmation that he had won the US presidency, becoming the first black person to do so, I was very happy. I hadn’t been up very long, this was around 6.30am, and suddenly the world felt a lot lighter, and there was hope where yesterday there was just the same old, same old.
What happens in the US affects the entire planet, there can be no doubt—and so the election of this man, who gives every impression of being both intelligent and gentle, progressive and fair-minded, gives us all hope for the future. American readers may cherish reading this editorial from The Guardian as much as we Brits are able to do today—it’s an opinion piece dripping in hope and historical significance. There’s more, of course—check out the BBC’s Justin Webb, talking of ‘profound change’ and how the Obama years will encourage the nation to ‘think differently about itself’.
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