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Barack Obama and America's Empowerment
by Joshua Seraphim copyright A.D. 2008 © Leilah Publications, LLC . All rights reserved.
Barack Obama is the
President-elect of the United States, chosen by the American populace, history,
and our manifest destiny. Obama carries on his shoulders the hopes of a country.
and the invocation of a national destiny in the midst of a crisis unseen for
generations.
Obama's election as the 44th President of the United States reconfigured the
American electoral divide, laying waste to old world notions of Democrat and
Republican. His victory was the ratification of the Information Technology
Revolution, where millions embraced a decentralized, entrepreneurial, and
grassroots undercurrent. The "Obamanation" undercurrent spread its tentacles of
progressive "change we can believe in" across a technology divide of text
messaging, online donations & campaigning, social-networking, and grassroots
organizing.
Early on in his Presidential primary campaign, Obama pledged a grassroots
movement of civil discourse. Americans are repelled by the divisive
political-social poles that have bedeviled national dialogue for a generation.
Obama sensed this, using his career experience as a community organizer to move
beyond vehement politics of character assassination. Obama captured votes out of
reach for the Democratic Party by putting his finger on the pulse of the nation.
Obama's opponents ran rabid campaigns attacking his judgment, character, and at
times his cultural background. Obama's civility, and steady hand during debates,
and display of executive decisions during the Years-in-the-making Market
meltdown convinced voters of his confidence in the face of crisis.
Obama seems to have an innate political GPS system, knowing where the American
people are and the direction in which they wish to go. When his campaign stalled
in September, falling behind in statewide and national polling Obama kept a
calm, steady course when supporters were urging him to show some political
audacity, instead invoking in millions of Americans his own "Audacity of Hope."
In public rallies that often drew crowds of tens of thousands, the 19 Democratic
Primary debates, and most importantly the three with Senator John McCain, Obama
came across as collected, confident of his decisions while McCain appeared at
times erratic and irritable. Many independent voters were convinced he could
handle the American Presidency. At the outset of the election season, many
political commentators publicly voiced he was running for President too early in
his career. The economic downturns, credit freeze, and global war against
terrorism, disintegrating health care, and energy independence made the petty
attacks against Obama less consequential.
Barack Obama's election breeched once solid political barriers; our first
African-American President is the first Democratic Candidate to capture an
electoral win in Virginia since President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964. He is first
U.S. President born outside the contiguous United States. He also will be the
fifth youngest President at his inauguration. On Election Day, millions of
volunteers and paid staff members working for Obama were empowered to get voters
to the polls in record turnout. Political and social barriers were trampled in
Obama's pronounced empowerment.
During his speech on Election night before nearly 250,000 in Grant Park, Chicago
IL Obama sounded off on the changes a 106 year old woman had seen during her
lifetime, a 106 year old woman who cast her vote for Obama:
"She was born just a
generation past slavery; a time when there were no cars on the road or planes in
the sky; when
someone like her couldn't vote for two reasons -- because she was a woman and
because of the color of her skin.
And tonight, I think about all that she's seen throughout her century in America
-- the heartache and the hope; the
struggle and the progress; the times we were told that we can't, and the people
who pressed on with that American creed:
Yes we can.
At a time when women's voices were silenced and their hopes dismissed, she lived
to see them stand up and speak out and
reach for the ballot. Yes we can.
When there was despair in the dust bowl and depression across the land, she saw
a nation conquer fear itself with a New
Deal, new jobs, a new sense of common purpose. Yes we can.
When the bombs fell on our harbor and tyranny threatened the world, she was
there to witness a generation rise to
greatness and a democracy was saved. Yes we can.
She was there for the buses in Montgomery, the hoses in Birmingham, a bridge in
Selma, and a preacher from Atlanta who
told a people that "We Shall Overcome." Yes we can.
A man touched down on the moon, a wall came down in Berlin, a world was
connected by our own science and imagination.
And this year, in this election, she touched her finger to a screen, and cast
her vote, because after 106 years in
America, through the best of times and the darkest of hours, she knows how
America can change.
Yes we can."
Obama journeyed from Hawaii to life in Indonesia and back to Hawaii, from
Columbia University to Harvard honors, from Chicago community organizer to
Illinois State Senate, then U.S. senator, from stirring speech at the 2004
Democratic National Convention to landslide election as the nation's first
African-American President. His is a tale that empowers individuals and reshapes
a nation's manifest destiny. When Obama says, as he often does in
speeches, that "in no other country on Earth" was his story "even possible,"
people from all corners of life know he is talking about their story,
their struggle, their success. A new generation of Americans resoundingly
identified with Obama's story of struggle and success; 66% of voters age 18-29,
many of them casting their ballots for the first time, believed in his "audacity
of hope." 'Generation X' thirty-somethings also overwhelmingly voted for Obama,
slightly less than the previous age bloc, 52% age 30-44. Non-aligned voters
believed in his resonance of change, building bridges between political
ideologies, 52% of Independent voters and 60% of people identifying their
political bend as "Moderate." Conservative voters, likely Republican Party
loyalists crossed the great ideological divide, likely disenfranchised with the
Bush Administration, and the tone of Senator John McCain's campaign, his choice
of Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin as running mate. Obama captured 22% of
voting Republican renegades, 69% of first-time voters. Obama's hybrid
election signals a new world being born.
Obama's Presidency will see a global shift from political, corporate, and religious hierarchies to networks as a 21st century response to globalization and America's predestined role in a global order. Government networks, and grassroots civic networks will have a mandate for greater interaction in Obama's Administration. His challenge to American youth to work harder at inventing a successful future for themselves echoes President John F. Kennedy's "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country" proclamation. The difference is, Obama's call to service has invigorated a new generation's entry into global innovation and education. No longer can the younger generations, who are now the thrust of society, conveniently dismiss its suspicion of global society. Obama's election as President places our society at the threshold of challenges and changes this generation must face. As the Information Technology Revolution matures the global order by coagulating cultures and new belief systems, corporate & government hierarchies shifting to global networks will lose their historical flexibility by failing to endure increasing global concerns. Obama's Presidency must boldly experiment to keep its finger on the pulse of the nation or democracy will fracture irrevocably.
After 232 years and recent escalating crises in our history, we can non longer wait to affirm that our representative democracy works for every citizen willing to invest in its foundations. Barack Obama's Presidency must engage in bold experimentation in economic recovery, renewable energy, health care, counter-terrorism, civic service and a range of other issues in our American cauldron of challenges. Incrementalist reactions, confronting policy as issues develop, must become obsolete under the 44th President, adjusting government and corporate networks as crisis develops will assure a transformative presidency for Obama and our society.
In The Republic, Plato defined the difference between polity, communal government by an informed citizenry, and democracy by which controllers and demagogues whip the winds of the people's greed, vanity, fear, faith and fury for their own profit and glory. Obama's historic election is a lesson Plato must have had in mind. Obama is a rising star that lets the country chose from many constellations of history. And yet there are still masses of souls who fear change and rebirth. A small insignificant majority we can consider as conspiracy theorists, disconnected in their own fictional network of fear and paranoia. Within hours of Obama's election and the subsequent national tears of joy, conspiracy theorists already billed Barack Obama as a puppet in a "new world order," a toxic figure on the global stage, positioned by such organizations as the Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission, Brookings Institution and others to surrender America's sovereignty to a global 'corporate elite.' The individuals who peruse these circuits refuse to concede that individuals can change the course of history. Conspiracy theorists have an innate need to be controlled by external entities they view as the logical choice to be controlling their lives, the prime movers behind tragic events.
History has shown them wrong, as Obama proclaimed on November 3, 2008 the night of Election Eve by remembering a diminutive woman who inspired him during campaign stops in rural Iowa with the rallying cry, "fired up! ready to go!". "This just goes to show you, that if one voice can change a room, it can change a city, if one voice can change a city, it can change a state, if one voice can change a state, it can change the nation, if a voice can change a nation, it can change the world." Conspiracy theorists and their organizers, the likes of Alex Jones, Texe Marrs, Jim Marrs, Jeff Rense, and the like who in reality commercialize fear and paranoia. Barack Obama is the latest manchurian candidate for the commercialization of fear. Great presidents do not emerge from quiet times; they arise in times of chaos and crisis. There are not enough words to describe how monumental Barack Obama's election. Never before has the Great American Experiment of our Founding Fathers witnessed such an invocation of manifest destiny. For Barack Obama the burden of Presidency is likely to feel heavier than he originally expected. America is at a crossroads of change and Obama understands this much better than he did at the outset of his historic march to President. Some of the most fateful decisions, and changes our country will make for generations will come during Barack Obama's watch.
Election & Political Resources
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/election-results
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/results/polls/
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/