A coworker reports that when she got in a cab to come into the office at 6 a.m., the driver, an African immigrant, had Obama's victory speech playing on the radio. He was clearly very excited.
Later, we went to a breakfast at a posh downtown hotel where about 200 French businesspeople and journalists heard the U.S. ambassador announce that Obama had won. The ambassador, who I'm told is a relative of Laura Bush, went on at some length in French about America's history of democracy and our centuries-old alliance with France, but said very little specifically about Obama. It wasn't clear whether this was due to diplomatic protocol or something else.
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