While it was very obvious that the majority of muslims and arabs supported Obama whether because of his race, his name (Barack means "blessed" in Arabic and Hussein which means "handsome one"), or his hope of change in American politics, this dream seems to have been ashort-lived fiesta with Obama's appointment as White House chief of staff of Rahm Emanuel, a tough American with Israeli roots and sympathies.
Many people worldwide, especially Arabs, who were skeptical of American democracy because even though it has a significant big minority, all of its presidents were Anglo. With the elections of Obama however, those people are now are rubbing their eyes in disbelief. People in middle east say they are fed up with colonial white faces and want to end the US presense in Iraq. I think those people who think that becuase we got a president now who is not a "white face", the US foreign policy will change are dead wrong, for very obvious reasons.
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It is not yet clear how Obama plans to use his chief of staff. In most administrations, the chief of staff does not have an advocacy role but is expected to be an "honest broker" in making sure the president is getting all the inofmration he needs. It is the national security team that will be responsible for developing a mideast policy.
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