Something that really got me thinking was a short video piece that I saw on CNN regarding Barack's grandmother in Kenya. The showed hundreds of young, black men and women marching and cheering for Obama. It dawned on me more than ever that he has not just become America's President, but he and his legacy now belong to the world.
Something like 70% of those asked the in United Kingdom who they would vote for have they the chance to vote in the US Federal Election said they would support Barack. Canadians supported him at a 6-to-1 ratio with McCain. He has done the one thing that was probably more and anything else, the most needed for the American Nation: he changed their façade. He has, before he has even taken office, taken the United States out of its isolation. The world has started to ease up on its hate of America. It still holds the American people accountable for the total blunder that was the Bush era, but it also understands that with this new term, this new Chief, America has turned face.
The Republicans joked and cajoled Barack as 'the saviour' and 'the One', but you know what, he is the saviour. Define the term saviour? Is it when a certain man or woman or child, pre-destined to be great, finally emerges to help mankind? That would require a great deal of faith to think that they were sent for a specific purpose at a specific time. Many do not connect to that school of thought.
But even if one does reject the notion of pre-determined future, Barack Obama can be seen as the saviour. A saviour emerges at a time of ordeal, a time of need. We are in a time of need and times of need require a change in pace and change in thinking. Take a look at our viable options for the vehicle of that change, it was either Barack Obama or John McCain. By simple elimination we can see that putting our confidence for change into an old man who is party to the same school of thought that we are currently emassed in will not yeild us much more than what we have already.
Barack Obama is the best kind of saviour. He was in the right place, at the right time, with the right ideas. Perhaps we should start to rethink the criteria that we hold up our great examples of human beings to. We compare and constantly tie ourselves back to an ideology millenia old. What would we do if we took every scientific finding and held it up to the science of ancient Greece, and then discounted all of the aspects that didnt fit the Greek models? It sounds insane. But it shows that our society cannot thrive, it cannot grow if it does not regenerate itself when the current methods are not working. Change is constant, change is neccessary.
Obama for President 2009-2017.
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