If I am not wrong, one of the headlines I read the other day was: “Everyone is looking for his own Obama.”
Winning the presidential elections with an overwhelming victory, Barrack Obama has pumped such a leap of hope to the entire world that people are now going after an Obama dream.
Not just the Western world but also the Aborigines of Australia, who announced that someday even an Aborigine could run the country.If even Aborigines, to whom Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd publicly apologized in February for the “barbaric assimilation methods” of the country, have hopes, you imagine the rest.
“Obamania” makes a peakWhen he declared victory, I was in the Italian capital Rome for the 5th Italian-Turkish Forum. Italian and Turkish participants of the meeting, themed “Turkey, European Union and the Mediterranean,” spent the night in front of TV sets.
Italians and Turks congratulated each other in the morning for Obama’s victory.
The keynote speaker of the meeting was Marta Dassu of the Apsen Institute. She was busy all night long making comments about Obama’s victory on TV programs.
Honeymoon with Europe?The Washington - European Union relations that were tense during the Bush administration may turn into a honeymoon with Obama in the White House, according to Dassu, who believes that the United States will need close cooperation with EU and Turkey if the pull-out from Iraq begins as Obama promises. The issues of Iran, the Middle East and Afghanistan may take new turns, warns Dassu, saying that with Obama, an opportunity to change the world has arrived.
The next speaker was Emma Bonino, deputy speaker of the Italian Senate.