MJ, the US lives by the decade manifested in the choice of its President. During the Clinton years it was "American are global leaders in world economy" People said "Just look at job growth, look at the prosperity level." At that time if a candidate like Obama and his message came along, he would not have been given serious consideration. In the face of prosperity, Americans started to and derived pleasure in the Monica Lewinsky drama. They tool their eyes off the ball on what it takes to be great when a man, who with God on his lips and vacuum in his brains convinced a majority of the Americans to vote for him (or rather Him) as President. And the decade following his ascendancy has seen nothing but violence and killing around the world particularly in Iraq. HIs leadership , if he had any, succumbed to the leadership provided by a violent man called Osama bin Laden. It was Osama who led this world into violence and Bush reciprocated in kind.
We mourn the loss of 32 innocent lives in VT. And mourn we must. But stop to think about the mourning of Iraqis when thousands of innocent Iraqi citizens are getting killed due to presence of "Christian troops on Arab land" in an Iraqi view. They are right in pointing their accusing finger at Americans who are funding the carnage and killing in Iraq through their tax dollars voted by their Congress person. Like you, many Americans yearn to hear something positive. But before that can happen, the negatives about America that the world perceives today must be removed. And Obama's remarks about what ails America is an echo of the global and that of an increasing number of Americans. I view his candidacy as not one like "an ostrich in the sand."
I second zeta's point of view which is close to Obama's in that "there is no black America, there is no white America, there is the United States of America."
Katrina did not just hit the black community in NO, nor did violence hit the white community in VT. It was not created by the Korean community. It was created by and it hit the Unites States of America. |
