Bono and Seamus Heaney offered their unqualified support for the presidency of Barack Obama following his historic inauguration in Washington yesterday.
The U2 frontman and the Nobel laureate poet from Bellaghy said they have full confidence in America's first black president whom they both believe will bring substantial changes -- not only to the USA but to the world at large.
Speaking on RTE's Prime Time last night, Bono said he believes President Obama offers "a real chance in the next two years for some breakthroughs concerning globalisation and climate change and extreme poverty."
Mr. Heaney said Obama's presidency has the potential to become "one of the historic presidencies."
"He represents the same kind of promise as (John F.) Kennedy -- youth, change, wholeness -- that transmits and is believable with him.
"If everything that is potentially there happens, he could be into the Lincoln class, perhaps. But certainly it's a moment of large possibility within America and the whole world, really," he told a special edition of the programme broadcast from Washington to mark the inauguration.
By Allison Bray, Belfast Telegraph, January 21, 2009
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