Obama's Bubble

The United States has elected it's first African American President, Barack Obama. To his credit Obama ran a very competent campaign albeit thin on substance. The campaign targeted young people and new voters with empty slogans like hope, Change and chants of "yes we can".

For all the talk about racism, Obama's created a financial behemoth, raising over $600,000,000-more than any presidential candidate in US history! To say the newspaper headlines around the world were euphoric is a gross understatement. One UK headline read "One giant leap for mankind", a poster in Italy read " The world has changed". There were celebrations in London, Kenya and Australia. "What an inspiration. He is the first truly global U.S. president the world has ever had," said Pracha Kanjananont, a 29-year-old Thai sitting at a Starbuck's in Bangkok, Thailand. Rama Yade, France's Junior minister of Human rights said 'this is the fall of the Berlin wall times 10".

Obama has in many respects has become a worldwide religious figure. There are seven year old children in Indonesia singing songs about him. In Kenya, Nov 6 was declared a national holiday, and a Florida couple bestowed the name Sanjae Obama Fisher to their third born child. This is a case study in the power of the media- how else can one explain the excitement about Obama in India?

The global Obama mania will have a bad ending- there is no place for it to go but down. He has yet to make an executive decision of any kind. Lets see how many songs the world has for him if he decides to continue the cross border incursions into Pakistan; Or continue the plans for a missile shield in Poland or demand that Venezuela scrap the plans it has to build nukes with the Russians. The world finally feels it has an Oprah like US president, one what will seek to make the world feel good instead of adopting the peace through strength approach that Ronald Reagan ushered in during his 1980's revolution. The same media that has turned Obama into the world's biggest pop star since Michael Jackson will also destroy him. My advice to my new president: Don't believe your press clippings.

Comments

Unknown said…
Right on brother. Managing expectations is going to be Obama's biggest downfall. A president, even a great one like Reagan will have their mistakes, problems and misteps. The Obamaniacs will not know what to do with them selves when there is still strife in the world now that the messiah has been elected President.
November 7, 2008 at 5:03 AM
Karyn Beach said…
Even Obama has said that he can't do it all by himself. The change Obama is promising can't just trickle down from the top, it's going to take a massive change from the bottom up ... and that's the part a lot of people have realized or accepted.
November 13, 2008 at 11:41 AM
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