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#64 OBAMA'S BIG BANG IN FRANCE REVISITED
For one extraordinary night, America gave the world hope.
On November 4, 2008, I was on the streets of Paris, covering Barack Obama’s election for HuffPost, and my friend Ralph came with me. Paris was on fire. The French were jubilant. They kept telling me, “This could never happen here.” And I kept thinking: If it can happen in America, it can happen anywhere.
Come back to Paris with me in this audio edition of “Obama’s Big Bang in France.”Remember what it felt like when America inspired the world instead of frightening it. When people everywhere believed change was possible.
We were that…
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