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Article: Obama has brought 'change' to the politics of Britain Both Gordon Brown and David Cameron are scrambling to be seen as our answer to the President-Elect. But they will find that his success was not as easy as it looked
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
- Article date:
- November 9, 2008
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It was a second Black Wednesday, only this time joyously so. Dull
was he of soul who did not find a way to relish the global carnival
that was November 5, as the world awoke to find that the 44th
President of the United States was an African-American. It was not a
moment for partisanship, or personality, or even policy, but planet-
wide poetry. Such moments do not come often in a lifetime and they
are worth savouring.
In this country, the impact has been instant and transformative.
To be specific: at about 2am on Wednesday, the defining figure of
British politics ceased to be Tony Blair and became Barack Obama.
In modern politics there is always a magnetic North, an
individual in ...