{"id":149,"date":"2008-11-09T09:21:09","date_gmt":"2008-11-09T14:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/?p=149"},"modified":"2008-11-09T09:21:09","modified_gmt":"2008-11-09T14:21:09","slug":"reaction-to-the-obama-victory-in-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/2008\/11\/09\/reaction-to-the-obama-victory-in-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"Reaction to the Obama victory in Asia&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fantastic read at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2008\/11\/9\/04224\/3123\/139\/657870\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: (click link for full article)<\/p>\n<p>Even if you are not an Obama supporter, the world thinks much better of us now, based on the reaction the writer is hearing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Upon seeing my button, everyone, without exception, smiles. \u00a0I have received preferential treatment all day long. They didn&#8217;t make me pay extra for a heavy bag, they treated me in short, like royalty. The stewardess told the pilot, who stood up in the cock pit to give me a thumbs up. \u00a0Even the immigration official barely looked at my passport. \u00a0He was much more interested in knowing an Obama supporter and what I thought would happen today.<\/p>\n<p>&lt;&#8230;&gt;<\/p>\n<p>The man behind the counter is Malaysian. \u00a0He asks if I voted and when I confirm I have he laughs really loud and says something to the other official sitting next to him. \u00a0This man laughs too. \u00a0They both look at me intently. \u00a0The one, fighting to find the right english begins, &#8220;This is (something in Malay). \u00a0I smile saying I don&#8217;t understand. \u00a0He looks at his colleague and rattles something in Malay&#8230;The man says just a minute. \u00a0He gets out a book. \u00a0It is an english translation book. \u00a0He says something to the man and hands him the book&#8230;pointing to a line on the page. \u00a0The 1st man turns back to me and says&#8230;&#8221;this is fan\/tas\/a\/tic&#8230;fan-tas-aahhh-tic&#8230;how do you say?&#8221; \u00a0I tell him, yes, he is right &#8220;Fantastic&#8221;. \u00a0They laugh again at their attempts. \u00a0I laugh too.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fantastic read at Daily Kos: (click link for full article) Even if you are not<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asian-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151,"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions\/151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}