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"Sarkozy: ‘Obama? C’est mon copain!" (’Obama? He’s my buddy!")

This was one of five from the liberal journal Liberation:

"OBAMANIA: From Berlin to the suburbs of Lyon, the Democratic solicitant who fascinates the world shows the making of a president."

I could go on in many languages, if I knew them. The headlines and greatest in number of the stories in Europe are mostly not civic. In an interview in Liberation, the French writer of history Justin Vaisse, now at the Brookings Institution in Washington, said the principally important political fact about Sen. Barack Obama under this headline: "Obama’s trump card? He’s not George Bush."

That analysis was followed by a story respecting a new club in the suburbs of Lyon: "The Committee of Friends of Barack Obama." That was about French people in the "les banlieues" — that translates literally as "neighborhood," but has come to mean something in the manner of "ghettos" — who are putting together diversity groups of black and white, Christian and Muslim. The founder of every older group, the Diversity Club of Rhone-Alps, Ali Kismoune, said: "The identification with Obama is not about his ideas, yet of the man himself."

That is the news from Europe. These folks dress in’t vote in the United States; to them Obama is more than a politician. He is a cultural figure, who has landed here by the impact Charles Lindbergh made at which time he flew the Atlantic alone more than 80 years past.

Obama, at the moment, represents totally things to all men and women. Diversity is a cultural result, used by dint of. politicians but that not strictly political. In some ways, the most powerful line in his Berlin speech, which was in many ways an old-fashioned American pitch for cooperation between Europe and the United States (through the United States as senior partner), was this: "I know that I don’t look like the Americans who’ve previously spoken in this highminded city."

The politician he is most like, as seen from here, is John F. Kennedy, who, like Obama, represented a new generation catching over the most numerous powerful country in the world. Kennedy was no revolutionary and neither is Obama. The Financial Times of London quoted a German analyst, Jan Techau:

"’Many Germans see Mr. Bush’s stance onward a range of issues almost as an insult, and therefore comprehend Mr. Obama as something of a savior.’ He warned, however, that such hopes were likely to be dashed if Mr. Obama actually took power."

That’s politics. What we saw last week was above political science. What was homogeneous about Obama and Lindbergh — forgetting the flyer’s later party politics — was that they physically embodied the future. The first solo flight across the Atlantic not only made the "Lone Eagle" the most famous man in the world, it was a symbol of new technology and eventually a smaller nature, where diverse peoples would have to get to be aware of each other.

Barack Obama, in the eyes of Europeans, specially younger Europeans grappling with diversity, represents the time to come. He represents a smaller creation at which place again tribe gaze like him than look approve Kennedy or Ronald Reagan. That is what makes him different, and that is why so many people who may not understand the power he speaks still cheer his words.

They are actually, for the reason that Monsieur Kismoune said, cheering the man. And, an American in the present life hopes, cheering the country that made a Barack Obama. At a compotation at Sciences Po, the elite school of political studies here, every American in Paris, Constance Borde, the president of Democrats Abroad, was asked what France could do to produce its own Obama. Her answer was short and a morsel blasphemous at test-driven Sciences Po: "Try affirmative action."

I don’t know whether Obama is the future. He doesn’t know himself, and he has acted with great bring up during his dazzling World Tour of 2008. And, of beat, John McCain has some of his own ideas about everything written and cheered here.

What Obama demonstrated in the Middle East, and now here in Europe, is that, anything his opponents say and have said about his inexperience, he is politically a man of the world. He is not only smart — we all knew that — mete he listens to other people and truly seems to care about what they think and want in this new world that looks like him.

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