A Clearer Perspective

Within the past week, New York Times columnist and former foreign correspondent for the newspaper, Roger Cohen, has written two interesting opinion pieces relating Barack Obama’s family history, and the effect his presidency would have on world foreign relations.
Cohen, now reporting for the Times from Nairobi, Kenya provides an interesting angle on Obama as the next possible world leader by letting us gain a glimpse of the presidential race as seen from Obama’s country of heritage.His father, Barack Obama Sr., was born in the Nyanza Province of Kenya and worked as a domestic servant to the British. Obama, now undoubtedly one of the most well-known faces in the world, was at that point just a little boy helping his father herd goats.

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