Roland Martin, CNN’s on-staff Obama-greatness promoter, has a new CNN.com opinion piece on the gushy subject of “Sasha’s Smile,” but then the piece transforms into the usual boilerplate about how the Anointed One has calmed the waters of international relations before he walks on them:

What also is most compelling about this age of Obama is how he has been received thus far internationally. Many political experts are simply stunned that a man who has only been on the national stage for five years would have so much good will across the pond.
Of course, a lot of that has to do with the fact that President George W. Bush and his team were seen as running roughshod over their international partners, praising them when they needed something, and savaging them when they disagreed with the U.S. position.

What, precisely, is Roland’s evidence for “savaging them”? Calling them “Old Europe”? Then Martin argues that Obama’s skin color is another advantage, since Americans (read: white Americans) fail to realize they do not dominate the planet demographically:

Yet what we also can’t ignore is that Obama’s skin tone also plays a central role. Americans may be shocked to find out that people of color make up two-thirds of the world population.
They know all too well about America’s pathetic and violent history of enslaving and later oppressing African-Americans, and it was always seen as ridiculous for U.S. officials to condemn human rights abuses abroad while racial and other forms of discrimination existed in their own backyard.
Obama’s election sends a powerful signal to the world that Americans are backing up their rhetoric and ideals with action, and Obama serves as that powerful symbol.

Is Roland trying to argue that it’s “ridiculous” (to use just one example) for the United States to condemn suicide bombers because of slavery in the 1800s?