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[tagryn]

We can only hope that things like this actually materialize from Obama's ascendancy:
http://www.salon.com/tech/col/smith/2009/01/09/askthepilot304/index.html

On a slightly different note, have a look at this photograph. It was taken on an oceanside road behind the Sofitel there in Dakar. "Obama and Biden," says the oversize spray paint, "The New World Bilders [sic]." The picture was taken about two days after the election. Such a sentiment wouldn't have surprised me so much in, say, Anglophonic Ghana or, for obvious reasons, in Kenya. But in French West Africa? The next evening at the Dakar airport, three men begged me to give them the "Obama '08" campaign pin I was wearing on my lapel. Without reading too much into it, are things like this symptomatic, maybe, of a sudden and renewed respect for the United States? Heaven knows we could use it.