Continuing our coverage [1] of the Twittersphere's response to the Democratic National Convention, we move forward to reactions to Barack Obama's speech. Obama, who took the stage at 10:15 EST, started by thanking the audience profusely, for which he received some teasing from amiraalhussaini [2] and nplaughlin [3].
As the speech begins, African Twitter users are having fun translating Obama's trademark phrase, “Yes We Can” into different African languages. From Kenya, afromusing [4] starts the trend with Swahili:
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dnashong [6], originally from Ghana, shares more ways to say we can:
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kaysha remarks upon Africa's need for a figure like Obama:
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dnashong responds:
He then corrects himself to say “you know I should've said Africa's new leaders. I mean US!”
Malagasy lrakoto [9] admits his excitement for Obama's reactions:
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Although it goes without saying that non-U.S. citizens have a number of reasons for their interest in the U.S. elections, Trinidadian nplaughlin [11] puts it best when he says:
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Bahraini amiraalhussaini [13] quips:
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Finally, Nigerian kuikihoro [15] seems disappointed that Obama's speech ended so quickly:
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