Folks are having some fun with Barack Obama's reported belief that "the very act of Americans choosing to elect him would amount to the biggest foreign policy advance of the past 20 years, would immediately change the way, say, a young boy in Lahore views this country, would crush the propaganda gains of radical Islam since the end of the first Gulf War, would heal the scar that serves as a reminder of America’s original sin (slavery), would directly engage the mass Muslim world in a way that no one who voted for oil or empire could," and so forth.
This isn't out of Obama's mouth, but rather the unsourced ruminations of "some of his friends," so take it with a grain of salt. That said, it seems plausible enough to comment on. Which Zeitlin the Youthful does, saying "if he really thinks that, I'm worried. What pisses off Muslims and allows for radical Islam's propaganda gains is not that our president is a hawkish buffoon, per se, it's the policies he enacts. It (was) troops in Saudi Arabia, support for various Arab dictators, support for Israel, invading Iraq, occupying Iraq etc. The mere act of electing Barack won't magically make all that go away."