Young Americans traveling abroad need no longer pretend they're Canadian, as they did during the dubya years. They can proudly reveal their American citizenship without risking the ire of their host country, without having to explain that they voted for Kerry and Gore, without having to explain the whole blue state/red state dichotomy (they may still have to explain why they don't have huge asses, like most Americans).
Andrew summed it up perfectly about a year ago:
"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 . . . , Obama’s face gets close. It proves them wrong about what America is in ways no words can."Overnight, America's image has been restored. Of course, Obama's face is not enough. He's still got to deliver the goods. I believe he will.
Update (12:35pm): Booboo pointed me to this story on Yahoo news about an expatriate in Vienna.
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