Obama brings change

According to the daily De Morgen, President Barack Obama's recent decision to support stem cell research is a sign of change in the US: "Yesterday Obama allocated funding to stem cell research. … A president who in less than three months has made dramatic changes in Middle East policy, set a new tone in Cuba policy, espoused a new economic policy and moved away from bioethical conservatism has at the very least kept one of his promises: to bring change. Change - and not just minor change at that. True, Obama has drawn fierce criticism: from extremist Miami-Cubans, Christian conservatives, Fox News and Co. But this does him credit. Has Barack Obama transformed his country into a land of milk and honey? Are hunger, climate change and the economic crisis things of the past? Of course not. Obama is no saint and not all his decisions are commendable (for example his lukewarm criticism of Israeli brutality in Gaza). But this man has brought change."

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