<![CDATA[In Obama, Many Overseas See Chance For New Direction And New Attitude]]>

1.0 link 105338 <![CDATA[In Obama, Many Overseas See Chance For New Direction And New Attitude]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/04/in-obama-many-overseas-se_n_105338.html For much of the world, Sen. Barack Obama's victory in the Democratic primaries was a moment to admire the United States at a time when the nation's image abroad has been seriously damaged.

From hundreds of supporters crowded around televisions in rural Kenya, Obama's ancestral homeland, to jubilant Britons writing "WE DID IT!" on the Brits for Barack discussion board on Facebook, people celebrated what they called an important racial and generational milestone for the United States.

"This is close to a...

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