This week i have decided to post some very interesting and insightful comments about President Elect Obama by a lady called Terah in Somalia, in my view this really an insightful comment that sums up the election campaign and the tensions it raised in the United States. Though notably we are glad  that obama was indeed the candidate of choice accross the board.

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The one thing Americans have embarked on and accomplished with unprecedented success in the past one year, in my opinion, is the marketing of Barack Obama to the world as a fashionable global product; a citizen of the world. First, they called him an African and the African continent; from Tunis to Cape Town, from the horn of Africa to Cape Verde; listened. The blacks in America, in Europe, everywhere heard and pricked their ears in anticipation. Second, they called him a Muslim and even caricatured him in Somali Islamic regalia. Then the Muslims throughout the world and in the entire Middle East heard and listened. Third, they shouted for the world to take note that he was a foreigner in America who saw America differently from the way real Americans did. The whole world heard and listened. All along, the architects of the racist labels knew they were lying but thought they could succeed demonizing him enough for the American electorate to reject him. Interestingly, Obama did not disown some of the labels.

Terah Nyaanga, Somalia