An International Businessman's Perspective on the Popular Mr. Obama

[babylonsister]

Heather Robinson
Posted December 25, 2008 | 06:04 PM (EST)
An International Businessman's Perspective on the Popular Mr. Obama


Just had an interesting conversation with an international businessman about our President-elect.

Adam Ginsberg, author of "How to Buy, Sell and Profit on E-Bay," conducts training seminars and sells software that helps people to create and market their own web sites and internet-based businesses.

He travels around the world, including to England, Ireland, Malaysia, Singapore, and Australia, hosting seminars and selling products. A McCain supporter in the general election, Ginsberg maintains that politicians "should be less interested in creating jobs, more interested in creating opportunities."

But in recent months, his view that the election of Barack Obama was an unfavorable outcome has shifted. The reason? Based on his experiences lately speaking to large crowds about becoming internet entrepreneurs, he believes Obama's election has spurred the masses, not only in the U.S. but around the world, to regain their faith in the U.S. and, more importantly, in their own potential.

"When I get up in Indonesia and Malaysia and Singapore and Australia and say, 'Yes we can,' people go wild," he says.

Traveling around the world, he also finds audiences much more positive towards the United States than he did before Obama's election.

"People outside the U.S. look at us as leaders, and for whatever reasons, the world doesn't like George Bush," he says. "It could be Bush is just a scapegoat. But I think the world looks at the U.S. as a bully. But since {Obama's election} they think of the U.S. as a leader. You need a leader to be someone you can look up to, and relate to, and they relate to Barack Obama."

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/heather-robinson/an-international-business_b_153506.html

[underpants]

1. They, W&Co., always missed the big picture

we are supposed to be the good guys
the rest of the world really does love us or at least the idea of us and not out of fear but out of respect for supposedly at least doing it the right way the hard way yes but the right way

as my sig line says

Truth Justice and the American Way-that is all we ask

[Cha]

4. They only had their own little

ugly picture to look at.

[firedupdem]

2. If thats what it took to change his mine so be it....still think he's an

ass for supporting McCain in the first place! LOL

[babylonsister]

3. So does this writer; she declared her allegiance towards the end

of the article.

[firedupdem]

5. They all want to switch sides now....

This lady I talk to sometimes at my son's games was not an Obama supporter....the day after he won she went on and on about all the people celebrating in Grant Park and around the country. I made a point of letting her know they celebrated all over the world! Now she's suddenly thinking he'll be such a great president etc. Suddenly she's not so worried about the the terrorists that Bush was protecting us from. People are funny.

[NYC_SKP]

6. Ah, true, but we know who they are and we'll take their names...

...and make them famous!

:rofl:

McCain did have one or two good lines...;-)

[firedupdem]

8. whenever he said that I got really scared!

:scared:

:rofl:

The best was

"I'll get Osama, I know how to get him, I'll get him"......but only if I'm president!

What a jerk! LOL

[Condem]

7. Inauguration Day will be a day of epic proportions.

I'm taking the day off. Talking about going into Chicago for it, babylon. Man, I'm looking forward to it. I think the world is too.

[WinkyDink]

9. Well, that's what an illegal invasion and torture will get ya, Bushites. "For whatever reasons", my

arse.

[Clio the Leo]

10. I will always remember watching the Aussie version of the show "Big Brother"...

.... last spring. Two of the guys (who were locked inside the house, cut off from the media and who didn't know who had already won the Democratic primary) were discussing the Obama/Hillary drama.

"If the Yanks dont elect Obama they're a bunch of bloody fools!" one of the guys said.

Not looking like an idiot to the rest of the world was one of the many, many, many reasons Barack got my vote.