For a very nonVillager view of Obama as President, I recommend this interview of Chomsky by Le Monde.
It is dated the 16th and was on its front page yesterday.
The interview is not translated, so you can listen to it in English. Clips of the question are on the right.
More after the break.
In the first clip "Obama, le moindre mal" [Obama, the lesser evil), Chomsky talks about his recommendation to vote for Obama because he was the lesser of two evils.
The French has an interesting mistranslation in this clip. Chomsky notes that Emmanuel was the only Democratic member of the Illinois delegation to vote for the war, but the French subtitle says he was the ONLY Democrat in Congress to vote for the war. (Explaining delegations in a subtitle is difficult.)
The second clip "la 'racisme occidental'" [Western racism] is the most interesting. Chomsky notes how Obama's election was made possible by the 60s. (As a child of the 60s, I like that.) More importantly Chomsky discusses the claim that no other country could have done what the US did in electing someone like Obama. Chomsky provides important examples from the third world to demonstrate the racism of that claim.