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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TideGlider who wrote (35160)	7/17/2008 12:52:03 PM
From: puborectalis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224749

IHT: "...And despite those improvements, street interviews remain risky in Iraq. For this article, 18 people were interviewed about their opinions of Obama, in Baghdad, in the northern city of Mosul, in the holy Shiite city of Najaf, and in the Sunni suburb of Abu Ghraib, west of Baghdad. Even as some Iraqis disagreed about Obama's stance on withdrawal, they expressed broad approval for him personally as an improvement over Bush, who remains unpopular among broad portions of Iraqi society five years after the war began. No one interviewed expressed a strong dislike for Obama. Saad Sultan, an official in an Iraqi government ministry, contended that Obama could give a fresh start to relations between the Arab world and the United States. Obama has never practiced Islam; his father, whom he barely knew, was born Muslim, but became a nonbeliever. Sultan, however, like many Iraqis, feels instinctively close to the senator because he heard that he had Muslim roots. "Every time I see Obama I say: 'He's close to us. Maybe he'll see us in a different way,' " Sultan said. "I find Obama very close to my heart." Race is also a consideration. Muhammad Ahmed Kareem, 49, an engineer from Mosul, said he had high expectations of Obama because his experience as a black man in America might give him more empathy for others who feel oppressed by a powerful West. "Blacks suffered a lot of discrimination, much like Arabs," Kareem said. "That's why we expect that his tenure will be much better." iht.com