Whatever we are upset with the America over its arrogance, unilateralism, today, we have to admire that the America has made a giant step closer to its ideal and its promise.
Half a century ago, there was still segregation. Today, we see an African American becoming the Democrat's Presidential Nominee with a very good chance of winning the election.
It was today 45 years ago that Martin Luther King spoke of "I have a dream" and that dream is much closer today. Barack Obama is judged much more by his content and less by his color (at least by most of the Democrats and how the rest see it. There is no question substantial "prideful bigotry" remains in America).
As I am watching live the Obama's acceptance speech, the more I am in awe of the American system. Despite all it faults - big money, special interest group, skewed and sensationist media and the list goes on, the American system doesn't decay, it renews itself by heralding new era (some says new face) of politics.At the international sphere, Fareed Zakaria speaks of the rise of the rest in the Post-American World, the fact remains that the America will remain the only super power for the decades to come.
What the America does not have at the moment is respect - under the Bush administration. If Barack reshape the American's foreign policy to engage in diplomacy, practise multilateralism and less hypocricy, most of the rest are happy to accept the America's super power status
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