The rest of the World will not simply embrace Obama because he is not Bush, there will have to be substantive changes in US policies to make this happen.  Obama has already lost a key vote in the Senate because one senator with contra Cuban links was upset at even the slight easing of relations with Cuba.  The fact is that Washington (including many Democrat

s) is still stuck in a Reagan/Bush mind-set and it will be some time before Obama manages to push the Overton window back to even where it was under Clinton.  Those who have high hopes for a transformational US foreign policy under Obama, simply don't understand how constrained he is by a US `polity which is still stuck in the dark ages for the most part - and that includes many on DKos.

notes from no w here