Arabs: Obama! Inshallah!.....

If Bill Clinton was the first "black president," Obama will be the first "Arab president".....

'OBAMA! Inshallah!" - Obama! Allah willing! That slogan, scribbled on walls in Gaza, indicates the hopes that Barack Obama has inspired among Arabs.

While Obama has tried to push his origins into the background, his "Islamic roots" have won him a place in many Arabs' hearts.

One columnist, Mohamed Al-Menshawi, hails Obama as "the candidate with Muslim roots" and as the "harbinger of solidarity between Americans and the Muslim world."

Another, Al-Jazeera's Aala al-Bayoumi, notes: "Had it not been for Obama, Arabs would not even bother to follow the US presidential race." What makes the difference is Obama's "Islamic and African roots."

Marwan Bishara hails Obama's "radical politics": "For the US to vote in an African-American progressive liberal would certainly mark a departure from the hyper and violent conservatism of the Bush-McCain camp," he writes. An Obama presidency "would be better for both the US and the Arab world."

Obama especially appeals to pan-Arab nationalists angry at the United States for having ousted Saddam Hussein. Obama's promise to leave Iraq gives pan-Arabs their only chance (albeit slim) to destroy the new Iraqi democracy.

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Comments

[Carlos Echevarria]

I read recently that this guy is 44% Arab, 50% White, 6% Black African (one black descendant) because Luo members do not like to marry with native Africans....since they are from the Middle East originally.

No doubt he would be a welcome to the Jihadists, just like Odinga was in Kenya which is pretty much a blueprint for how Obama would govern.

[Poopyhead]

How many more endorsements like these will it take to convince Americans that this man has no business being president?

Never mind-with his slavish followers, such endorsements confirm his greatness to them.