Thursday, July 24, 2008
This is Why Obama Has it Won
This picture was taken in Germany in front of the Victory Column (Siegessaeule) in Berlin. These are the same Europeans that were (and probably still are) hating America just a few short years ago. Now they are waving our flag for one of our candidates who hasn't even won the Presidency yet. Obama has it sewed up. Time to Obama-proof your portfolio.
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NO. UNFORTUNATELY O'BAMA DOES NOT HAVE IT WON.
What a perplexing position citizens of these United States find ourselves. We have reached a cross-road as a nation. These are perilous times at home and abroad. Economic uncertainties abound and our fast eroding moral standing in the world threatens to place at risk our role as the world's most powerful influencer. Before us stand two starkly different choices whom, depending on our choice, may lead us into another "American Century" or may lead us further down the road to a permanent erosion of power and influence.
Essentially we are asked to vote for either of two approaches to moving forward. One approach seeks to harness American power and influence in order to rule the world; the other approach realizes that rather than American power, it is American principles and core values which must be harnessed that we might lead (not rule) the world.
We all know in our hearts that the right and just perspective to adopt is to "...harness American principles...that we might lead the world." For this is and has been the decidedly American root of our world perspective as a nation. This is our American way...our ethic. But there is one problem that causes us great consternation. The leader who most effectively espouses (and seems to most passionately believe in) the "decidedly American root of our world perspective..." is born the son of a minority group - the fruit of a relationship that in years past (and perhaps even now, if we be truthful with ourselves) was taboo.
The white guy, we know in our hearts is dangerous and wrong on almost every substantive issue affecting our welfare at home and abroad; yet we struggle to bring ourselves to truly embrace the other guy who espouses the most American of American ideals with enough eloquence and passion to ignite and capture the imagination of an entire next generation of Americans.
And so we vacillate and try to find ways to justify our guttural instinct to choose the guy who represents the past, though we yearn to step into the promise of the future. We whisper within the shadows of our body politic about "...is he Muslim...his middle name is Hussein...he's part Black...etc." We know within our hearts that Senator Barack Obama is the product of a conflagration of conspiring American ideals: freedom, justice, equality, meritocracy, our American melting pot. He is, as much as anything, one of our own.
My fear is that when we as a nation are on the other side of this decision...when we, in the end, vote our fears and forsake our promise; when we hold our heads down in shame as we watch John McCain's inauguration on our TVs; I fear that the Great Scribe of History will be left with no choice but to pen within our national epitaph, "...He came unto his own; and his own received him not."
Wait for the debates. You will see a tired, angry, white-haired man against a young glib, energetic, charismatic half-black man and it will be no contest. Only JFK vs. Nixon would be similar comparison. It will be Obama in a landslide.
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