let's hope for the best.
Unlike any American citizen my concerns were entirely different while listening to Barack Obama at the Democratic Convention, this morning. Over the years, especially under President George Bush’s term in the White House, has convinced me that the United States of America democratically elects the biggest dictator in every four years to rule the world.
In a speech perfectly blended with prose and poetry, Obama scathingly analyzed the policies of the Bush administration in the two terms and also tried to realistically pin-point the agendas he have, which he is terming as ‘change’.
Certain points which he made, the American people are in strict need of, especially creating jobs in America for the people living there instead of allowing companies to outsource jobs and at the same time getting tax benefits. Democrats in this session of the run-up to the elections have raised concerns about gender equality and quality college education. Being a father of two daughters himself, Obama vowed to ensure equal wages for women, creating better opportunities for quality education, not allowing privatization of social security and tax cuts.
The last two points needs to be noted by our economic policy makers which need to be implemented in the Indian context as well. Better get it done before the Americans do it and set an example.
When he moved on to criticize the Republican policy about giving benefits to those who already have the surplus and hope that prosperity trickles down the social order, it simply brought the thought back that human misery, its causes, is similar and universal. Isn’t it the common belief in India as well that our government too functions in this manner? Obama didn’t stop there, he went on to explain it briefly that the policy basically means that ‘you are on your own’. Isn’t it was the situation in India as suggested by the news reports on 27th August 2008 or when the inflation figures rises northwards every Friday or when there is some terrorist attack?
But what struck me as most worthy of all, was his pledging to decrease America’s dependence on oil from the middle-east. Definitely Obama has hit the nail on the head. If he wins the election and gets this vision of his rolling then half the problems round the globe would be over. Another war like that of Iraq based on false premises could be avoided in future. There would be no silly diplomatic games played by big countries, especially the USA for oil’s sake.
However, so far Obama’s speeches and those made in support of his candidature has been more messiah like, though steeped in idealism, sounds convincing. He definitely has delivered some of the best speeches of the present times. And on the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther king jr.’s ‘I have a dream speech’, as the first African-American Democratic Presidential nominee, Obama has already made history and his speech though steeped in high prose, sounding idealistic wasn’t blind to the reality.
Come this November, the world would get to know whether his speeches have been able to convince America or not, that he is the best man for the White House. And good news is that so far he seems immune to the dictator bug.
In a speech perfectly blended with prose and poetry, Obama scathingly analyzed the policies of the Bush administration in the two terms and also tried to realistically pin-point the agendas he have, which he is terming as ‘change’.
Certain points which he made, the American people are in strict need of, especially creating jobs in America for the people living there instead of allowing companies to outsource jobs and at the same time getting tax benefits. Democrats in this session of the run-up to the elections have raised concerns about gender equality and quality college education. Being a father of two daughters himself, Obama vowed to ensure equal wages for women, creating better opportunities for quality education, not allowing privatization of social security and tax cuts.
The last two points needs to be noted by our economic policy makers which need to be implemented in the Indian context as well. Better get it done before the Americans do it and set an example.
When he moved on to criticize the Republican policy about giving benefits to those who already have the surplus and hope that prosperity trickles down the social order, it simply brought the thought back that human misery, its causes, is similar and universal. Isn’t it the common belief in India as well that our government too functions in this manner? Obama didn’t stop there, he went on to explain it briefly that the policy basically means that ‘you are on your own’. Isn’t it was the situation in India as suggested by the news reports on 27th August 2008 or when the inflation figures rises northwards every Friday or when there is some terrorist attack?
But what struck me as most worthy of all, was his pledging to decrease America’s dependence on oil from the middle-east. Definitely Obama has hit the nail on the head. If he wins the election and gets this vision of his rolling then half the problems round the globe would be over. Another war like that of Iraq based on false premises could be avoided in future. There would be no silly diplomatic games played by big countries, especially the USA for oil’s sake.
However, so far Obama’s speeches and those made in support of his candidature has been more messiah like, though steeped in idealism, sounds convincing. He definitely has delivered some of the best speeches of the present times. And on the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther king jr.’s ‘I have a dream speech’, as the first African-American Democratic Presidential nominee, Obama has already made history and his speech though steeped in high prose, sounding idealistic wasn’t blind to the reality.
Come this November, the world would get to know whether his speeches have been able to convince America or not, that he is the best man for the White House. And good news is that so far he seems immune to the dictator bug.
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