views on the U.S. election

This morning on Radio-Canada Montréal, Marc Laurendeau summarized the opinion pages of the Montreal papers as follows:
1) Do you remember Nov. 22, 1963, the day of the Kennedy assassination? July 20, 1969, the day the first man walked on the moon? Sept. 11, 2001, the day of the World Trade Center attacks? Yesterday, Nov. 4, 2008, is such a day, a day the world changed. (Journal de Montréal)
2) Obama's victory was the victory of young, multicultural, urban America over rural, white, older, and religious, America. It is a new America. (Le Devoir.)
3) 45 years after Martin Luther King enunciated his dream that his children's children would be judged on the content of their character, Obama has realized this dream. Americans voted for the candidate's ideas and character, not for the color of his skin. (André Pratte, La Presse).
4) The election reminds Québécois of their own Révolution Tranquille, or Quiet Revolution, the time of the 1960s and 1970s when Québec society changed in its fundamental attitudes and way of life. (Benoit Aubain, Le Journal de Montréal)
5) Obama is a symbol of the citizen of the world: a mixture of cultures and races, a world that can no longer be seen in manichean terms. You've got a dictionary--look it up. (Yves Boisvert, La Presse)

You can see that the editorialists are familiar with U.S. history and politics. Implicit in some of them, for example, #2 and #5, is a criticism of America's recent trends and a hope for a more outward-looking, international United States. In addition, I am struck by #1, whose author identifies with important "American" days as the key, epoch-making days in his own life, and assumed to have that same importance in the lives of his readers. The great, or horrible days, he remembers most are ones that happened in our country, not his own. Far from "hating America," as some Americans think people in other countries do, he identifies with our great triumphs and tragedies as key markers in his life.