Monday, February 04, 2008

"Yes We Can" May God Bless America

My 3 years old son has a new favorite phrase; Rack Obama. Signs fill the street in the way to my work. My favorite so far is "My Mama for Obama". Another sai d: "Tired from this drama: Vote Obama!" The presidential hopeful who is half Kenyan-half American is beyond inspriation. Along the years,I heard powerful speeches, sermons and poems but this man is in a different league. He is a combination of Martin Luther King, Ronald Regan and Oprah Winfery. His list of endorsers include talk show hosts like Oprah, athletics as Abdel Jabar, dynasity like the Kennedys and most of the Hollywood gangs. His political support comes from the left and the right. In a brief, he is a transformative figure.

Unlike other politicans who use fear(Bush), hate(Clinton)and partisan division in their tactics, he empowers people with a hopeful message. "Hope is the rock of any nation," the junior senator of Illinois says. People are more simialr than what they think and Yes We Can as his speech said get along together, work together and live together. The senator from Illinois is expected to crush the Clintons tommorow. Keep crossing your fingers.

God Bless America for allowing a skinny guy with a funny name to reach all of his potential. The joke in the streets of Mombasa where Kenyans slaughter each other and where Obama's father was born goes "it is easier to a Kenyan to become the president of the US than Kenya" and for that God Bless America. Barak Obama is good for America, good for the World