Barack Obama – The new era starts

November 5th, 2008
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With the election of Barack Obama as the new president of United States, I believe a new era of international affairs has started.

I personally like him as a politician and am a great fan of his public speaking skills (at least one thing will be greatly different in the new president). If I were a US citizen I probably would have voted for him as well. This is indeed a historical moment for USA and the world. The election of an African American as the president is a big deal, if you look at the history of United States.

History is full of stories of how African Americans were denied basic human rights in the USA not too long ago. If you want to know more about it you should read the book Roots: The Saga of an American Family, or watch the mini-series based on the book. America has come a long way since its early days to the point where an African American man is the president of the country where people of his race were untouchables.

It also proves that people of America have finally developed the sense and maturity to look beyond the color of the skin of a person and see what is in the heart and soul of him.

To be honest, as much as I wanted Obama to win, I did not expect it. I was skeptical about people of America electing a Black man as their president. I was afraid that deep inside the heart of white Americans there is hatred for Blacks, and they will never accept a black man as their ruler.

I am so relieved to have been proven wrong.

I hope Obama will do whatever it takes to fix the damage caused by his predecessors. If he is able to do that he will not only be remembered as the first black president, but also as one of the greatest president of the Unites States of America.

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  • Sara
    Hear hear! I can't describe the mood here in Chicago - of solidarity and pride and hope. What's even more interesting is the sense of arrival of a postracial era - where a man is elected for his character and not the color of his skin or his partisanship. It's truly a historic moment and one of great importance for the United States and the world.
  • GH
    He may prove good for Americans but forget that he will do any good for the rest of Muslim world. I wonder, what makes non-Americans so happy? Just a fact that Americans have elected a Black president? Let's see, what their foreign policy says about Pakistan. I don't hope enough.
  • GH » why do muslims expect someone from outside to come and solve their problems? If they don't have the ability to do any good for themselves there is no way an outsider will come and assist. Same goes for Obama's policy about Pakistan. Obama is going to be president of USA, not president of Pakisan! Whatever he is going to do is going to be beneficial for USA. Pakistani people (and government) should stop expecting from USA, Russia, China, France etc. and rely only on Allah.
  • GH
    Yeah, this is what i was telling you.
  • Guest
    Speaking of Barack Obama:

    Barack Obama is a racial-minority individual, and in his heart and mind he inevitably does not endorse hate crimes committed by George W. Bush.

    George W. Bush committed hate crimes of epic proportions and with the stench of terrorism (indicated in my blog).

    George W. Bush did in fact commit innumerable hate crimes.

    And I do solemnly swear by Almighty God that George W. Bush committed other hate crimes of epic proportions and with the stench of terrorism which I am not at liberty to mention.

    Many people know what Bush did.

    And many people will know what Bush did—even to the end of the world.

    Bush was absolute evil.

    Bush is now like a fugitive from justice.

    Bush is a psychological prisoner.

    Bush has a lot to worry about.

    Bush can technically be prosecuted for hate crimes at any time.

    In any case, Bush will go down in history in infamy.

    Submitted by Andrew Yu-Jen Wang
    B.S., Summa Cum Laude, 1996
    Messiah College, Grantham, PA
    Lower Merion High School, Ardmore, PA, 1993

    “GEORGE W. BUSH IS THE WORST PRESIDENT IN U.S. HISTORY” BLOG OF ANDREW YU-JEN WANG
    ______________________
    I am not sure where I had read it before, but anyway, it is a linguistically excellent statement, and it goes kind of like this: “If only it were possible to ban invention that bottled up memories so they never got stale and faded.” Oh wait—off the top of my head—I think the quotation came from my Lower Merion High School yearbook.
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