The outcome of the presidential election in the USA has been so exciting I haven't been able to concentrate on much else, these last few days. It feels the same as nineteen Novembers ago, when the Berlin Wall was breached. Today my German-speaking friends talked about a commentary from Der Spiegel which I'd printed out for the group to read, entitled Obamas historischer Wahlsieg. Die Wiederauferstehung des amerikanischen Traums. describing the tone of the man's voice:
versöhnlich [...] erhaben [...] wohltempiert [...] Der Obama-Ton schliesst Menschen ein und grenzt sie nicht aus. Es ist der Ton der politischen Romantik.
Conciliatory, exalted, well-tempered, the way in which he speaks includes people, doesn't exclude them. Rather a good description, that.
Another appposite quotation I found was in one of the pictures featured on the half-hour photo-documentary about Obama's life so far, that I found on guardian.co.uk website, a photo of the motto of the Senator Obama Secondary School in Kogelo, Kenya, saying:
ENDEAVOUR TO EXCEL!
Did you know that Barack Obama has a Canadian brother-in-law whose name is Konrad Ng? This is a multi-racial family and no mistake. At last, someone in the White House who should be capable of imagining the Rest Of The World as family. But the best thing he's done so far is to put pride and joy into his compatriots' faces. They needed that.
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