08w45:1 A Year Later Posted November 5th, 2008 by timothy. 0 Comments Goodreads | 2008 week 45 number 1 (A Year Later) This was posted on Goodreads a year ago. Thank you Andrew Sullivan and the USA for making it real. – TC Goodbye to All That | Andrew Sullivan http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200712/obama “Consider this hypothetical. It’s November 2008. A young Pakistani Muslim is watching television and sees that this man—Barack Hussein Obama—is the new face of America. In one simple image, America’s soft power has been ratcheted up not a notch, but a logarithm. A brown-skinned man whose father was an African, who grew up in Indonesia and Hawaii, who attended a majority-Muslim school as a boy, is now the alleged enemy. If you wanted the crudest but most effective weapon against the demonization of America that fuels Islamist ideology, Obama’s face gets close. It proves them wrong about what America is in ways no words can.”
