A vote for Obama
September 4, 2006 by cityboy
Wouldn’t it be refreshing to see Obama run in 2008?
With his Kenyan father and Kansas mother, his Hawaiian/Indonesian childhood and Midwestern adulthood, his community-organizer background and Harvard law degree, he is the perfect mirror for a country that craves to see itself as beyond race, beyond boundaries, beyond the ugly parts of its past; he is a candidate with whom virtually anyone can identify. “I have a lot of different pieces of a lot of different people in me,” he acknowledged, which leads many people to see him as a unifying figure. “I don’t mind that. It is maybe a simplification in terms of who I am,” but there is something “hopeful in that that is healthy.” (Newsweek)
I’ve been nothing but impressed with him. His mastery of the spoken word reminds me of Clinton. It’s rather nice to see your leaders be able to compose a thought - gives a person a bit of confidence that they just might know what they were doing.
Obama doesn’t stand a chance. The harsh realities are that the US is not ready for anything other than a white male president.
You’re probably right, but I’m hoping you’re not. The one positive coming out of a Bush presidency is that the public may finally be ready for someone with abilities, regardless of race. Would be nice, if naive.