Barak’s mother was a white lady, father a black man. So how can he be the first black prez?
He is black and white in equal measure. What would the black community feel if the whites said he was white? In equal measure they would be right!
The media is killing the moment with racial tones. Barak is a well-spoken and perhaps a very able administrator and I am thinking the media should concentrate on all things other than race. I don’t want to see divisive folks like Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton given anymore limelight. We all have to move beyond seeing color and start looking at the abilities of a person. Divisive talk will not help in this regard.
But I suspect, the media will keep bringing these racial stats and racial dialogs and destroy Barak and his presidency. The news media in the US is capable of making and breaking people really fast.
I hope not. This day should be deemed as “out with the old ways” and “in with the new”. I voted for Barak because Palin was a bad choice for America. Mccain’s judging skills cost him my vote. Also I cannot trust the world with somebody who does not know how to use a computer or a cell phone:) (and somebody who does not know that Africa is continent:)
I hope Barak does all that he promised…provide low cost health care, bring jobs back(stop freaking outsourcing!), pull out of Iraq and Afghanistan(albeit victoriously) but still maintaining our leadership in the world(very precarious with Bush and Cheney screwing it all up for us..a very difficult but needed job), spread a bit of wealth(lower disparities of incomes between CEOs and workers…Why the heck should a CEO earn 500 times more than me???), lower the price of gas, promote alternate sources of energy(no unnecessary drilling to fatten CEOs), provide private-school kind of education to public school kids(we have the $$$ to do it, why not??)..
Those are a few of the changes I would like to see in the next four years.
On the first day of office, I would love to see a few of the old executive orders of Bush thrown in the garbage – notably, the executive order to allow offshore drilling that Bush and Cheney crafted for their cronies. Also sign-in stem-cell research – other countries are way ahead and we are afraid of the Christian right??
I hope that Barak is not a dud. I hope he restores my faith in democracy! I hope he is able to restore the govt of the people, for the people and by the people that Bush and Cheney have so effectively destroyed! No more of this “managed democracy” where people are afraid to exercise their basic rights(getting to be like living in say China, Russia, Cuba , Singapore etc)