Obama’s Global Ethical Challenges

Barack Obama’s election as president has already done much to restore America’s global image. But if he fails to make good on his promises of change at home and in America's foreign policy, it will be decades before the electorate again places its trust in a candidate who claims to be different from the usual run of politicians.

PRINCETON – The astonishing story of Barack Obama’s election as president has already done much to restore America’s global image. In place of a president whose only qualification for the office was his father’s name, we now have one whose intelligence and vision overcame the formidable obstacle of being the exotically named son of an African Muslim. Who would have believed, after the last two elections, that the American public was capable of electing such a candidate?

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