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Obama Could Change Dynamics in the Arab World
[Los Angeles Times] Jeffrey Fleishman - Barack Obama is changing Washington's image from a cowboy with snarling sound bites to a conciliator with star appeal. Obama's is a multicultural face that narrows degrees of separation. Gamal Nkrumah, whose father, Kwame, led Ghana to independence from British rule in 1957, wrote in the Egyptian weekly Al Ahram, "Obama's genius is that he appeals to the well-heeled liberals in Western nations as much as the penniless peasants of impoverished nations, the teeming millions eking out a meager existence." As Muslim moderates seek more openness to democracy and rapprochement with the West, Obama offers a tantalizing message that may inspire them while disarming fundamentalists.