If Britain didn't know who Barack Obama was, they will do by now.
The front page of the UK's most popular news paper, is covered with the picture of Obama, and the editorial is a glowing piece.
When the Sun says, you know it's been approved by Murdoch
So this the picture around 3.5m Brits would have picked up, and millions more would have seen, Barack Obama being celebrated on the front of the Sun. When they got past Page 3, they found a double page spread about the next President, described as the 'Real American Idol' and that your going 'Barack to the Future', and a glowing editorial below.
AMERICAN HERO
HISTORY is in the making as Barack Obama surges towards the U.S. Presidency.
Obama will be the first black man to run for President after clinching the Democratic nomination from Hillary Clinton.
The tide behind him grows stronger by the day. His Republican opponent John McCain will find it hard to resist being swept away.
Across the United States there is a feeling that something extraordinary is happening.
Americans sense their nation is on the threshold of momentous change.
Obama’s achievement in becoming a black Presidential candidate at just 46 is impossible to overstate.
The very idea seemed inconceivable until recently in a land where the treatment of black people has been a scar on the nation’s conscience.
As late as the 1920s, black American soldiers were lynched by white Ku Klux Klan racists.
Martin Luther King was murdered for preaching about his dreams of equality.
Today, a new generation of Americans including millions of white voters has put Barack Obama on the brink of the White House.
His inspirational message has been the need for national unity and a fresh start after the divisive rancour of the Bush years.
Obama’s veteran rival John McCain, a proud war hero who will fight to the finish, has accused Obama of being soft on terror.
But in a blistering speech yesterday Obama pledged to be ruthlessly tough on Iran.
In the five months leading up to November’s election, Obama must add substance to his charisma.
He will have to decide whether to pick Hillary as his running mate.
He may feel saddling himself with the tarnished Clinton legacy would dilute his message of change.
But those are decisions for other days.
Today, The Sun salutes an extraordinary man who has captured the imagination of the world.
When the Sun says, it's with Murdoch endorsement, he would have ok'ed this piece and all the stuff in the paper today.
Also the Times has Barack on it's front page
Britain knows about Barack, now please elect him!