As Joe Klein put it in his Time profile: Obama seemed the political equivalent of a rainbow a sudden preternatural event inspiring awe and ecstasy.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tPremi\u00e8re remarque, d’une importance \u00e9vidente : Obama est noir, ou plut\u00f4t : demi-noir Grosse affaire aux USA. Quelques mots l\u00e0-dessus.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t\u00abHis mother was white and from Kansas and his father was from Kenya and bequeathed his name to his son, but left the family to return home when Barack Jr was just two. Mr Obama plays heavily upon his racial and cultural origins in his books and speeches, endearing him to black and white audiences alike.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThen there is his age, at 45, which sets him apart from Mrs Clinton, 14 years his senior, and gives him claim another parallel with JFK to representing a new generation. It also gives him the latitude to reveal earlier youthful indiscretions: he confesses in his first book, Dreams from My Father, to having used marijuana (yes, he inhaled) and cocaine.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbBut questions of race and inexperience regularly arise. Is America ready for a black president? is hurled even more frequently at him than the question of a woman president is at Hillary. He faced it squarely on Sunday.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbRace is still a powerful force in this country, and there are certain stereotypes I will have to deal with. But I find that when people get to know you they will judge you on your merits.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tOn a vu aussi qu’il est question d’inexp\u00e9rience. C’est un autre argument, peut-\u00eatre encore plus int\u00e9ressant. Argument, certes mais positif ou n\u00e9gatif ?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t\u00abHis lack of experience is harder to answer. Mr Obama has spent just two years in the Senate compared with Mrs Clinton’s six, or John Kennedy’s 14 years in Congress before he became president.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbCrucially, though, lack of experience is an advantage when those with experience are perceived to have got the US into such a mess. It means he is free of awkward voting histories he can claim to have opposed the Iraq war when Mrs Clinton backed it.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbWhen he stood up before the crowd in New Hampshire, he played on that: We must understand that the might of our military has to be matched by the strength of our diplomacy.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tAssez curieusement, cet argument a un \u00e9cho en France, avec S\u00e9gol\u00e8ne Royal (qui, elle, pr\u00e9sente l’autre nouveaut\u00e9 d’\u00eatre une femme, sans \u00eatre noire, semble-t-il, autre question du m\u00eame type que celle de un Noir pr\u00e9sident ?). Royal est effectivement souvent accus\u00e9e d’inexp\u00e9rience, ou d’incomp\u00e9tence. Est-ce une accusation ?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tLe sympathique et comp\u00e9tent journaliste Eric Zemmour, du Figaro<\/em>, r\u00e9p\u00e8te souvent dans l’\u00e9mission hebdomadaire Ca se dispute<\/em> (sur I-TV<\/em>), talk-show<\/em> dont il est un des trois animateurs, que S\u00e9gol\u00e8ne est incomp\u00e9tente, pour aussit\u00f4t ajouter que ce n’est pas un d\u00e9faut en la circonstance. Zemmour r\u00e9p\u00e8te souvent la chose, comme il l’a encore r\u00e9p\u00e9t\u00e9e vendredi dernier: \u00abMais ce n’est pas du tout un argument contre elle que je dis l\u00e0. Au contraire, c’est un avantage. Les Fran\u00e7ais en ont tellement marre de leurs \u00e9lites, des gens comp\u00e9tents qui la forment et qui ont produit la situation qu’on a aujourd’hui, que l’incomp\u00e9tence est devenue un avantage. Pour elle, c’est un atout<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tAlors, S\u00e9gol\u00e8ne-Barack, m\u00eame combat ? Les choses vont tellement vite que la nouveaut\u00e9 de Barack est en train de supplanter celle d’Hillary Clinton chez les d\u00e9mocrates, pourtant une femme candidate potentielle \u00e0 la pr\u00e9sidence, tout de m\u00eame. Ce d\u00e9fil\u00e9 des nouveaut\u00e9s et cette sorte d’arguments mesurent l’impuissance et la folie qu’est devenue la politique en Occident, \u00e0 l’heure de la dissolution et de la corruption des \u00e9lites. En France et aux USA, pour une fois bien plus proches qu’on a coutume de les voir, la chose est \u00e9clatante.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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\tMis en ligne le 12 d\u00e9cembre 2006 \u00e0 04H43<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Une nouvelle vedette politique est en train de s’affirmer aux USA : le jeune s\u00e9nateur d\u00e9mocrate Barack Obama. Sa victoire massive dans l’Illinois, le 7 novembre, a \u00e9t\u00e9 marquante. Le Guardian observe aujourd’hui que les pressions grandissent pour qu’il envisage une candidature pr\u00e9sidentielle. Les commentaires deviennent enthousiastes, comme un rayon de soleil dans la morosit\u00e9… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6202,6204,2916,6203,3387,6147,6090],"class_list":["post-68296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-barack","tag-elites","tag-femme","tag-inexperience","tag-noir","tag-segolene","tag-zemmour"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}