Thursday, 5 March 2009

Is it a Rebirth of a nation or the birth of a superstar?



“Rebirth of a Nation” I think it is the title of the film which is likely to be done in about 20 years in respect of what America now lives. Barack Obama is seen as the world’s best public speaker. He is addressing to every American: to the rich and poor, to the white and black, young and old, gay or straight, Latin and Asian, disabled or sane.
Definitely he is not like the average politician who makes everything it takes in the public eye in order to win votes. Obama has elegance, tenacity and charisma. In fact, all these features convinced the American people to award him the seat of the Oval Office.

Barack Obama has not promised that by voting him the financial crisis will simply fly away and the economy will be flourishing. Even thou in every corner of this world these promises are a normal thing in times of election campaigns, Obama did not do it. In the country of Bernard Madoff, who has just committed one of the biggest frauds of all time, a $ 52 billion hole in the hardly challenged government’s budget, Barack Obama is not announcing “public executions” and nor declares war to moguls. Instead of doing this, he and his team are struggling to forward an economic recovery plan.

Barack Obama does not forget 9/11. But he sees as the symbol of America the Lincoln Memorial instead of the no existing anymore World Trade Center twins.

I hope that for humanity’s sake President Obama will not sacrifice democracy and freedom in the name of security how the former President GW Bush did. I hope that he will give a hand to the aggressive and corrupt dictators of the world instead of punching them by a new war as those in Afghanistan and Iraq. And hot spots there are. It is enough to look in the Middle East, Africa and North Korea to see some possible wars. I hope that President Obama will calm down these areas loaded with pressure via his intelligent and balanced approach about international relations and diplomacy.

I said too many times that I hope. Probably the biggest challenge for President Obama will be that people are expecting him to resolve all their problems. Now he is seen as a modern Messiah. This could be the thing that will make him not to achieve his objectives. In other words great expectations could bring great disappointments. We all have seen the huge enthusiasm on the Pennsylvania Avenue in the day when Barack Obama became the 44 president of the United States of America. We could hear parents saying to their children: “Remember this day. The 20 of January 2009 will remain “The Day” when the first Afro-American president took the world’s leadership”.


I finish this comment by hoping that President Obama will not be seen only as the first Afro-American president.

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