My feelings as a French pupil about Barack Obama’s election

As the media have told it, this election can be considered as a great moment in history : it’s the fist time that a black man has been elected president of the United States ! We can see this election as a real turning point in the American policy.

However to my mind Obama hasn’t been elected only because of the color of his skin but for what he is, what he thinks and what he wants to do. The fact that he’s black doesn’t matter for me, I want to believe in the image of him he gives, that is to say that he’s someone clever, serious, calm and that he will be able to raise up America. I think he’s the right person for the job and at the right time. Like many people I have hopes in him.

Nevertheless America is far away from France : I don’t feel “directly” concerned by this event. Thanks to globalization we can know what’s happening in the whole world and so in the United States even if it hasn’t changed our everyday life yet.

Maud Doumergue, lycée en foret