Obama's World
If Barack Obama were a candidate in Germany, he would be elected as German President, according to a German newspaper, Wiesbadener Kurier. I would also vote for him because he is not only qualified for the post, furthermore, the US needs another President with another presentation.
The US needs another face, a face less repulsive, less aggressive, and less immoral. For that face, Barack Obama stands for a new hope, more than any other recent President in the US. He has a charisma like John. F. Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln, a charisma which is absent by the other candidates, Clinton and McCain.
What makes Obama more attractive is his originality: Obama is more black than his another white half, he is more intellectual than to be blind nationalistic, he is more honest to be a president of Big Companies, and he is more dynamic than to be another conservative in the White House.
His first symbolic message to the world is the end of racial discrimination which has been written in the Constitution but not yet in the collective memory of humanity. His second message is to reduce an increasing negative image of the US in the world. Obama’s era accelerates this paradigm shift.
Obam’s message is addressed to the American masses, to Intellectuals, and especially to the most victims of the Bush administration. Obama criticised Bush’s tax cuts as favouring the rich, he rejects his neu-liberal economy, and he opposed the Iraq war and demanded a timetable for troop withdrawal. Today, many intellectuals, middle class and multiracial American citizens are helping to reach his ideals.
Obama cannot radically change the established system of immoral capitalism, but he may incite new values for a humanised system like a better welfare, more social justice and more civil right. I am not quite sure of the success of Obama’s paradigm shift in the US, but contrary to some emotional expressions of Muslims, I think Obama’s intellectual charisma can contribute to break down any extremist ideology, including Islamism. His humanitarian and intellectual influence can trigger a shake-up of Islamist resistance in the world, including in the Muslim societies.
Obama’s era will go beyond religious and racial divisions of people. The divisions created by unwritten constitutions of white societies and the three decades of Islamism, reborn in Iran. The time has come that people look for other criteria to catalogue people, rather than by race or religion.
To some extent, other kinds of discrimination against ethnic groups, religious minorities, women, foreigners fall under the same scrutiny. We will hopefully enter another era which has been expected by many humanitarian organisations, intellectual humanists and frustrated souls of any race or social category who are fed up with the old system.
He has a good chance to be the next US President. However, if Americans deprive him of the chance to prove that US indeed is a land of opportunity and it stands for affirmative action and it stands for a change, then the world continues to have more injustice, more violence, and more chance for racism and Islamism.
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I agree that Obama may change the face of U.S politics as perceived by the international community. However, I would caution that many of his campaign selling points have been used by candidates in the past; candidacies which generally have failed to deliver on their promises. The aspect which I was most impressed with, regarding Obama’s foreign policy, was his plan against terrorism. I wrote about the importance of his emphasis on communication, and training individuals to communicate American views, intentions, and policies to Middle Eastern audiences. Here is an excerpt of that plan which is particularly noteworthy:
I’m currently reading Obama’s “Dreams from my father” and I have to say: Writing such a book, dealing with drug abuse and all, at the start of his career (He wrote it after finishing his studies), put him on some risk. But reprinting it during his political career, that’s great. Because that’s so special to me about Obama: It’s not that he had a clean record – he just isn’t hiding anything. That’s a kind of honesty I miss with most politicians.
And then, Obama has such a beautiful language – gorgeous! That’s some English Mr. George W. “Cowboy” Bush can’t even dream of. Simply great.
“America Houses”…thats the best idea I have heard yet.
he sounds utopian.
I think he’d make a fine “President” of Germany and support the proposition.
He will not get elected and it is not because of his race.
He is the most liberal of Democrats with socialist leanings and that is not mainstream America.
He is photogenic, articulate etc. and would make a fine candidate on a reality show but not a President.
Ain’t gonna happen.
I think that Obama could make a fine president, but he will need a reality check first. Some of his ideas are great. But others are unrealistic. He wants to get the hell out of Iraq. Wonderful. Then what?
Are you going to let Iraq fall apart, and take the whole of the Middle East down with it? Or are you going to maintain a presence there, even as you gradually draw down your forces, redeploy to existing bases, and turn over the fighting to Iraqis, while continuing to supply and train them?
And capitalism is not bad. It is just being used in bad ways. It’s good to make money, as long as you do it honestly, and in a way that gives everyone on earth a place at the table, a stake in his or her future. The world is moving toward a globalized economy. You’re not going to stop that. You just have to figure out how to bring everyone on board, while protecting the environment. Obama could help make this happen, but he will need a strong dose of reality to show him the way.
Yes he did, and that is inaccurate or at least incomplete. Does the dishonest spin he put on that tell you anything about Obama?
NO I am NOT a supporter of George Bush.
I think patb is correct. Obama “ain’t all of that”. For one thing, he never had an honest job in his life. He never was a ghetto rat as he tries to portray. He has been outspoken against the 2nd amendment and a supporter of “affirmative action” (a 30 year program that now fosters mediocrity and is spoken against by several black leaders now). He and Hillary (who many absolutely detest) have both been caught in blatant untruths about their pasts and their political views. I don’t know anyone who is “in love” with McCain, I personally would have actively supported other candidates who didn’t make the cut, but McCain will probably be elected as the candidate of “lesser of several evils”. You’ll just have to put up with that as we do.
I think that Barack Obama will be elected president if he is chosen to represent the Democrats, but that isn’t written in stone. If he is elected, I think over the next few years there are going to be a great deal of disappointed people out there. The guy is being set up as some sort of great saviour of America, to drag it out of it’s imperialistic, “cowboy with an aircraft carrier” policies, overturn it’s status as the great clubhouse of the mega-corporate elite (and give me a break about the white thing there, vicious capitalism has members of all races in it’s ranks) and smooth over the race, money, and national divisions that infect the US like a nasty STD.
He has a good philosophy, to be sure, but he has also mentioned invading Pakistan, ending NAFTA, and quite frankly I have yet to hear a concrete plan by any of the major candidates for the US to really leave Iraq, much less to pack up their bases in Saudi Arabia (which some Muslims apparently resent, for some strange reason).
He will be taking the reins of a country in the grip of a major recession, paranoid as hell after 6 years of “rainbow alerts”, and occupying two other nations. He will have to deal with major trade, employment, and foreign policy problems, not to mention the unrealistic expectations of millions of Americans who think that the internal and external problems facing their communities depend on the skin colour of their president.
If he is elected, I think some very positive changes will occur on the American political landscape, but not until years of hard, ugly work have passed. Under the microscope of the US media, this will be even harder. I expect racial divisions to get worse, not better, as racists on both sides find ammuntion with every presidential setback and hard decision. I think the greatest challenge for Barack Obama will not be to get elected the first time; Hillary Clinton symbolizes the nasty, professional politics of the national level, and John McCain already looks a bit lost. I think his greatest challenge will be to get elected again.
I think Obama’s intellect and charisma is more than any other candidate. Nobody can contests his genuine love of humanity, his vision of a fair and just society. Mr. Obama has all the characteristics of a true president and has the power to start one.
In my opinion Obama’s world will not fuel spread of extremism around the globe, but will lead to the rise of more and more self-awareness in the world. The working class and middle east in turn will lead to social and political involvement. As a result of neocons, we have frustration, alienation in the working and middle klass in the west and chaos in the third worls especially the turmoil Middle East.
I believe that we need to have a firm stance against extremism, by trying to bring the masses to themselves. Extremists use and abuse lack of democracy and awareness to grow and this is fatal for all. Promoting the failed system of Islamism in Iran needs foreign enemies to exist because its regressive organs can easily punish “foreigner’s elements” and will set us back a few centuries.
As odd as it may sound, I am of the opinion that the IRI and other dictatorial systems do not wish Obama.
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