Wednesday, November 21, 2012

BARACK OBAMA: PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATURE WIN

Barack Obama has won the battle. Will he also be able to win the war?

The mad last-minute rush of Democratic super delegates and results from the final primaries in Montana and South Dakota, handed Obama the 2,118 delegates victory.

Son of a black Kenyan father and white Kansan mother, Obama has made history by breaching America''s mightiest barrier – that of race. And thus naturally, the word "respect", found deep resonance in almost all of his moving speeches – plus the fact that Americans weren''t nearly as dumb as the world believes them to be.

Most observers feel Obama will easily overcome the conservative challenge from McCain – the general perception being that the latter will simply carry on the policies of Bush. No matter how vigorously McCain attempts to trash this by distancing himself from Bush – and, yes, by emphasising his own breadth of experience and Obama''s lack of it – it is clear where the die is cast. Said McCain in one of his scores of vapid, colourless speeches, "The American people didn''t get to know me yesterday as they are just getting to know Senator Obama." But maybe the American people just didn''t want to ''get to know'' McCain; and as they were "getting to know Obama", they liked what they saw and heard: a sane voice after two seemingly interminable spells of self-destructive Republican paranoia under President Bush!


Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.

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