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July 23, 2008 06:34 AM UTC

Among the most compelling yet under-appreciated reason to support the Obama candidacy

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by: imrinehart

King Abdullah II of Jordan spoke last night at the Aspen Institute, and, according to the Aspen Daily News (aspendailynews.com/section/home/128285) here’s what he had to say.

“If Senator Obama becomes president, I think that America would have a cleared slate. The challenge is that if he does become president, there will be tremendous expectations that this may be something new from America.”

He elaborates …

“I think that Obama would have a honeymoon internationally, but again, expectations would be much higher than they would be for Sen. McCain.”

Of course, “Change” is the theme of the the Obama campaign (and, apparently the theme of the McCain candidacy, if only the kind of change you can believe in). But the conditions have to be right in order to facilitate any kind of ground shift. The conditions have to be ripe for change.

Thomas Friedman in a recent editorial suggested that the international community (and especially the Muslim world) is hungry for an Obama presidency.

But what King Abdullah implies here is that the conditions for improved diplomacy are bleak for a McCain administration — no “clean slate,” a tepid or non-existant “honeymoon period,” and no “expectations that this may be something new from America.”

In other words, at least as far as our greatest ally in the Muslim world is concerned, you can’t believe that McCain = Change.

3 thoughts on “Among the most compelling yet under-appreciated reason to support the Obama candidacy”

Jambalaya says:

July 24, 2008 at 2:05 am

…dammit, I can’t keep track of these traveling titles. Which is especially sad given how important such titles are.

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1. imrinehart says:
  
  July 25, 2008 at 3:59 am
  
  … our “greatest ally in the war on terror” according to some. Do you have anything substantive to add or are you just keen on making snarky remarks?
  
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Whiskey Lima Juliet says:

July 24, 2008 at 4:45 pm

OK, America’s leaders have a huge issue with mistrust in the world. The world’s most powerful military combined with leaders who are quick to remove “evildoers” is a combination of facts that makes other nations nervous. What makes one an “evildoer” and how much disagreeing with America makes you an “evildoer”?

In the Middle East, we are dealing with people of color. On a world basis, and as a very broad statement, people of color do not trust America’s white leaders, for many reasons that I would be willing to discuss in another diary.

Barack could make some inroads into the issues in the Middle East that John McCain will not have the opportunity to do.

OK, all the Repubs out there – I am not saying that Barack is sympathetic to nations of color. I am just saying the door may be open for conversation with Barack.

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