In 2008, America elected Barack Obama, the first African-American to preside over the destiny of the world's greatest power. Beyond the historic character of his election, Barack Obama must repair the damage caused by eight years of disastrous reign of George W. Bush. Both at the national and international level, the man whose global charisma is reminiscent of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, arrives as the savior of an America mired in one of the greatest economic depressions in its history, an America increasingly reviled for its destructive imperialist policies. Never in history has the world expected so much from one man. Barack Obama leads the break with the "cowboy diplomacy" practiced by G. W. Bush, renews the dialogue and cleans up the relations between America and the rest of the World. He thus laid the foundations of a "New America", one that respects other peoples and reminds us, among other things, today more than ever that "race is not an inevitability, but unquestionably a hope for all those who fight for legitimate equality between people of all races".