President Barack Obama Elect
If we are to judge by the results of our unscientific poll, Obama will be the winner of the USA 2008 Presidential election with over 400 electoral votes. After careful analysis we are prepared to say that Democrat Presidential hopeful Barack Obama will win with 300+ Electoral votes.
It has been an amazing campaign for several reasons. As the world watches, the United States of America seems set to catapult a man of colour into the White House. When it does happen the world maybe changed forever.
| Who will be the next POTUS?
1) John McCain |
The BU household looks forward to reading the comments from the BU family and possibly share in a defining moment in history.
@JC…..
Dont know about the others but Bimbro never went anywhere….he is still here blogging as 199.
Old fogey ……I dont feel he can stomach the thought of a black President with African heritage.
At least something finally keeping him quiet.
Barrack Obama And The Tears Of Jessie Jackson.
The President Elect – Barrack Obama – accompanied by his wife Michelle and daughters Sasha and Mali, walked across the stage in Chicago to be greeted by cheering thousands of many races and colours.
Singular, all alone in the crowd a black man with tears streaming down his face watched the unfolding historic ocassion.
How could it be that a black man who had fought so many battles for the cause, whose words have reverberated in many churches in the deep South to engage the black vote, now in their finest hour was outside the loop? Was it a few ill chosen words? Was it a case of an old warrior thinking of what could have been?
When history records this moment, the Rev Jessie Jackson will be remembered as the one who shed rivers of tears in the crowd, although many did, his were seen as different. Only he knows if they were, but will he ever tell?
“Men at some time are masters of their fates:
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.”
Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
http://www.america.gov/media/pdf/books/obamaen.pdf
Yardbroom:
The US, as many other nations, were demanding change, and from a leader who they perceived able to effect that change.
Jesse cried not for the result, but for another victor assuming his mantle.
On reflection he will analyse the difference between strategy and tactics and realise where his lifelong campaign has failed.
Straight Talk
I must agree you are right. “Sometimes” there is a difference between an activist and a politician; in order to get the popular vote, it is often necessary to release one of them. Pragmatism is politics, the best ideas and concerns cannot be implemented “without power.”
Jesse’s campaign did not fail, it succeeded mightly. If there wasn’t a Shirley Chisholm (who had Bajan roots by the way), if there wasn’t a Jesse Jackson, if there hadn’t been so many others then there would have been no Obama.
I wish Obama would maybe just once change his signature tune from Stevie Wonder’s “Signed, Sealed, Delivered …I’m Yours” to James Brown’s “Say It Loud…I’m Black and I’m Proud!”