The remarkable ability of Barack Obama to allow people to look at him and see themselves knows no bounds. The Haitian-born Governor General of Canada thinks Obama is just like her:
“I think that without having met and talked to Mr. Obama, he knows very well Haiti’s story,” she said.
What happened in Haiti, where in 1804 the country’s black African and creole population freed itself from slavery by overthrowing the colonial regime, was similar to Obama’s election experience, in that Haiti’s revolution was also “in the name of freedom, equality and fraternity,” she said.
I think there’s plenty of room so that, without wishing success to his liberal policies, I can hope the Obama administration turns out better than Haiti.
Posted by Apollo in CHANGE!, Those Wacky Foreigners