I have been trying to think of how I can definitively define Obama for myself. The photo by Vanity Fair is fantastic because it tells a personal story of the subject.

What does Obama represent? This questions begs an answer not only of Obama’s stand on major issues, but also, most imporatntly, what kind of an image would Obama project as President of the United States. What does the image of this handsome, alert, calm, collected, clearly very intelligent (Harvard Law), and by all accounts a good-natured person and, to some extent, exotic (he was raised as all-American boy by his white mother – lovingly protective – and his white grandparents. Unfortunately, his black father (African student in America, Harvard, Ph.D) was missing in action in Obama’s life (he worked as a government economist in Kenya and was killed by a car accident in 1982, around the time when Obama was finishing up his undergraduate studies at Columbia University). Obama’s mother’s family were of modest means, yet he was raised with the confidence and discipline to qualify, attend and succeed at top “elite” schools in the land (the only reason why he is close to winning the presidency).

Can you imagine Obama (a black candidate) with Shara Palin’s educational qualifications? No way, Jose!

So Obama is really the creation of our collective imagination. He represents what is inherently good about America. Like Lincoln and Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. King is from recent history, so we all know about his dream and the new historical and healing chapter the Obama presidency represents for America.

But who is Lincoln? According to Wikipedia: “Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865), the sixteenth President of the United States, successfully led his country through its greatest internal crisis, the American Civil War, only to be assassinated as the war was coming to an end.[1] Before becoming the first Republican elected to the Presidency, Lincoln was a lawyer, an Illinois state legislator, a member of the United States House of Representatives, and an unsuccessful candidate for election to the Senate.

As an outspoken opponent of the expansion of slavery in the United States, Lincoln won the Republican Party nomination in 1860 and was elected president later that year. During his time in office, he contributed to the effort to preserve the United States by leading the defeat of the secessionist Confederate States of America in the American Civil War. He introduced measures that resulted in the abolition of slavery, issuing his Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and promoting the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which passed Congress before Lincoln’s death and was ratified by the states later in 1865.”

Anyways, coming back to the original point, what would Obama represent on November 5th on the global st

I think regardless of who endorsed Obama and who is not or what the talking heads said or not.
The choice is clear. If you want change; look into all the facts of this election. and then VOTE!

This time it is upto each and everyone of us to Vote and help get the Vote out.

http://www.voteforchange.com

YES WE CAN!

Begudu