April 21, 2008
“Yes we can, yes we can”: Senator Obama is the Social Revolutionary of the 21st Century: A huge Inspiration for America and the Whole World.
Quotes: "Refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality…I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word." Martin Luther King, Jr. === "Be the change you want to see in the world." Mahatma Gandhi.
The above named quotes are conveying the same message as what Senator Obama is all about, and Hillary Clinton and John McCain are not. He is a revolutionary change agent who is in a quest to change the old failed politics of the past. Hillary and John McCain are the politicians of yesteryear trying to repackage themselves again, and sell us the same old same old Coca Cola but in a different bottle. That will not work this time. The "we" can movement will win this time.
Introduction:
Is it true Senator Obama is an incarnation of Martin Luther King, John F. Kennedy and Robert Kennedy, Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi and many other great leaders of the past? Only time will tell but many people already think so. A strange phenomenon is going on! A mystery is unfolding, tectonic plates are on the move, under our feet, on the brink of seismic shifts, a massive earth quake is about to shake the world, a tsunami may be in the offing, a sizable volcano of astronomical power is on the very brink of eruption, the cosmos are restless. An immense avalanche is about to slide down from Mars to earth. Snow may fall in the Sahara desert for the first time in recent memory.
The movement of all these forces may be a prelude to something great that will happen to America and the world. Is the Obama campaign the beginning of a new peaceful, social revolution that will spread to all over the world? To paraphrase Winston Churchill’s famous quote “The Soviet Union is a mystery wrapped in a riddle around an enigma." The Obama campaign is the new riddle, the mystery and the enigma of the 21st century if you will. Old politicians, the old guard are took by surprise and they have are at loss as how to combat this new movement. They went back to their drawing boards and figuring out how to repackage themselves, what to say and stop this Teflon candidate. They try to throw everything at him, but nothing seems to be sticking. Their old lies and spin, the politics of divide and slash did not work for them. The slogan of the Obama movement is not this time.
The turning point of the revolutionary war was when General George Washington crossed the Delaware River. In the same token, the turning point for the presidential primaries was, when Senator Obama won the Iowa Caucus, won more states in Super Tuesday than the Clintons, and then won 14 out of 17 contests. That is the time everybody took notice. That is the time everybody was scrambling to understand what is going on. On March 4, the Clintons modestly won Ohio and Texas came out to be a draw, with Senator Obama coming out with more delegates. The Clinton’s all of a sudden became the underdogs. As things stand now, mathematically the Clintons have no chance to win the democratic nomination, but they are still behaving like they have some chance.
The desperation of the Clintonitis is unprecedented. How they jumped over a recent Obama remarks about rural America is unprecedented. This is nothing but the last gasp of an old dishonest politician who failed to sell her old message. This is the pathology of a failed politician from a failed administration that has dragged America through scandals, impeachment and political turmoil. The Clintonitis has nothing to offer America except political pandering, dishonesty, power hunger and corruption. American must not vote for the Clinton’s. I hope the last Americans want is another scandalous Clinton administration, a co-presidency ridden with scandals and corruption.
The Clintonitis and McCain campaign are one and the same. Both campaigns are from the politics of the past, the politics of spin and attack. This is the politics which has destroyed America, dragged us into unnecessary wars of Vietnam, Iraq and others. The Obama movement is a genuine movement that has already caused seismic tremors in America and the world. The new Obama coalition is a huge movement that transcended race, ethnicity and region. But the purveyors of the old politics will resort what they know best, the politics of spin, attacking the messenger, and embroiled with the politics of symbolism without a substance. The Obama campaign is a new beginning in the world, while the McCain and the Clinton campaigns is the end of status quo, the failed policies of the past. Surely they will not go down easily, but certainly their old politics is rejected by the American people.
That is why Senator Obama came from no where and on the verge of toppling two entrenched dynasties and their failed politics. The Obama movement is the beginning of a silent and peaceful revolution which will radically change the political landscape in America and the world. This movement will have a devastating impact on the two major political parties that have dominated American politics for so long. This movement will completely revolutionize America. The two political parties, the corporate media, corporate America and the military industrial complex were in cahoots for a very long time and aligned themselves against the American people. The Obama movement will radically change this unholy alliance against the American people.
Since the days of General George Washington, John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Payne, Patrick Henry, and the many other unsung heroes in the foundation of the Republic, the appeal, the superfluous enthusiasm to the Obama campaign, the huge inspiration the Obama campaign generated has baffled political analysts, political commentators, pollsters, social scientists and other experts. This unprecedented campaign that caught fire in a very short period of time is stunning. Many experts are scrambling to understand what is generating this astronomical excitement and attraction to this novice candidate.
The politics of the past may not work with this new kind of politician. The Clintons can not compete with these unconventional politicians. They are still embroiled in their old tactics and strategy. Selling bad politicians and shoving them down the throat of Americans will not work this time. Smear campaigns to destroy great candidates and selling of mediocre or flawed leaders may not work this time. The political tactics and the negative politics of the past that put sleek politicians like Nixon, Clinton and others on the most powerful office in the world will not work this time. The politics of yesterday will not work today. The Obama movement is about to eliminate that kind of politics. The politic of triviality, distractions, and negative attacks while staying out of the real issues will not work today, not this time.
Another stealth weapon of the Obama campaign is young people. Young keep on forcing their parents to vote for Obama. This unprecedented trend seems to be reaching epidemic proportions. The first high profile leader who publicly declared this was Senator Bob Casey from PA who endorsed Obama. Other leaders shared the same experience are Senators Amy Chlobacher of Minnesota, Senator Clare McCaskil from Missouri and many others. If what is going is not a movement, I don’t know what it is. When the civil rights icon congress man John Lewis said before he switched to Senator Obama, he said and I quote "some thing is going on but I don’t know what it is."
The Obama’s campaign is a continuation and may by the completion of Dr. King’s dream. Senator Obama is a new politician who has huge plans and vision to change America. Senator Obama’s campaign attracted millions of people to the political process. American of all stripes needs to participate in the call change America. Senator Obama is the only hope for America today. Senator McCain and Hillary are nothing but the same politicians of the past. The Obama movement is the beginning of new social revolution in America. This movement is committed to resolve America’s problems. This movement is destined to fix the American economy, re-industrialize America, create millions of jobs for American, restructure and overhaul American education, improve America’s tarnished image around the world, withdraw America troops from the Iraqi fiasco, and change the mentality that puts us in Vietnam and Iraq.
Revolutionary movements have take up arms against oppressive colonial powers and repressive governments in the past such as the French, the British, the Spanish, the Portuguese and others. There was the era of revolutionary war in America itself, led by General George Washington whose ragtag army defeated the mighty British Empire. That revolutionary war was waged by courageous Americans, who founded a unique country in the history of mankind. The beautiful country they founded grew to become the most powerful country in the world. From time to time, revolutions need renewal, realignment and restructuring and shake up if you will, that is what Senator Obama is doing right now here in America. The Obama movement of optimism, hope inclusion and new way of doing things is a hope for the entire world.
About forty years ago, we have seen a young social revolutionary emerged in the newly independent country of Congo, called Patrice Lumumba, the alliance of reactionary forces and colonial powers were still very strong at the time, can not stand his courage and immediately went after him with full force. That young revolutionary never get the chance to put his movement of democratic change and peoples’ power into practice, and immediately cut short by the colonial forces still dreaming to keep their possessions, and fighting hard to ward off the surging revolutionary forces attempting to dislodge them from Africa and other parts of the world. In Asia, Mahatma Gandhi peacefully led 400 million Indians into independence form Great Britain. Armed revolutions have been waged against western colonial powers. But those wars of liberation, social justice and Independence became very destructive. Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. King were the first to realize that and introduced to the world, a new version of struggle for social justice. Dr. King led massive peaceful demonstrations through the segregated south all through the 1950s, until his premature assassination in Memphis Tennessee in 1968. Dr. King’s peaceful movement for social justice has challenged America.
Dr. King led a massive civil rights movement through the streets of Selma, Birmingham, Montgomery, Alabama, Washington D.C. and Memphis, Tennessee. Dr. King was instrumental in the passing of the voting rights acts of 1964 and the civil right acts of 1965. In 1968, an assassin’s bullet prematurely away Dr. MLK, the voice of hope and peace loving people of the United States and the world.
April 4th was the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. MLK and the peak of the civil rights movement, and yet the conspiracy that permanently removed the voice of reason and the conscience of the United States is not yet uncovered. Though huge progress was made towards race relations, we are still a long way to go. For the last 40 years, the civil rights movement became fragmented and stagnant. The 64 thousand question is, Does Dr. King’s assassination put the huge civil rights movement on a screeching halt? What would have happened If Dr. king was not assassinated? What about Robert F. K was not assassinated? What about If JFK was not assassinated? Did the assassination of JFK encourage the assassination as the other two stars in the American scene following his foot tract? Did the mystery surrounding those three assassinations of the 20th century would ever be uncovered?
One thing is crystal clear; Obama is a new version of visionary of a leader who can take America out of the wrong path it was following for the last 50 yeas. America needs somebody who is a new breed of a leader who drastically changes America’s disastrous foreign policy. More than any time before, America needs a huge economic reform, including the re industrialization of America, educational restructuring and the creation of millions of jobs. America needs somebody who can bring the millions of jobs who left America. America needs an honest leader who can revolutionize American education. Senator Obama offered that kind of leadership. America needs brand new politicians of the future. America needs a new leader who things are done in America. Both Senator McCain and Clinton do not represent any kind of change.
Despite their formidable spin machines, the America people see them as the same old politicians of the past. They are the same politicians who promise a lot during the campaign and go back to the status quo after elections. Senator Obama is already changing the difficult and elusive campaign finance reform, by raising his huge campaign through small donors. The Obama campaign may be a reincarnation of sorts of the Dr. King’s civil rights movement. Some of Obama’s speeches also reflect Dr. King’s themes. Dr. King drew from the Bible, the Old Testament, Mahatma Gandhi and the founding documents of the United States. 40 years after King’s death, another towering young stepped into the plate and ostensibly resurrecting Dr. King’s dream. Obama’s moving speeches inspired millions of Americans young and old, white, black and brown.
The Obama candidacy for the presidency of the United States has energized, excited and motivated millions of Americans and across the world. The Obama candidacy was uneventful about a year ago, when Obama and few supporters stood in front of Illinois State House. A year ago his candidacy which many people do not have a lot of expectations a year ago, became an American phenomenon. Few people figure how a junior senator from Illinois can capture the imagination of the American people. The enthusiasm and the energy he brought to the democratic primaries are unprecedented.
Where ever he goes Senator Obama is drawing massive crowds. Many Americans are wondering how this junior Senator who is so new in American political circles became so successful. Nobody figure out yet how he outsmarted seasoned presidential candidates such as Senator Joe Bidden, Senator Christopher Dodd, and Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico. As things stands today the Senator is on the very verge of becoming the Democratic Party nominee for the president of the United States in 2008. The junior Senator is on the brink of decisively defeating Hillary Clinton.
If Senator Obama won the presidential of the United States in November, 2008, as many think, he will clearly mark several historical epochs: 1. He will be the first time a person of color won the presidency of the United States. 2. He will become the first person who single handily toppled tow dynasties the Clinton dynasties and the Bush-McCain dynasty. 3. His success will amount to a grassroots social revolution in the United States.
The magic of the Obama campaign has in a very short time transformed Senator Clinton, from the inevitable democratic nominee to a disgruntled soar loser, who is dividing the democratic party, and jeopardizing the Democratic chance of winning the white house in 2008. The Obama wave made the Clintonites bitter politicians who can do anything to win. But unfortunately that won’t work for them. Hillary Clinton is now jeopardizing her Senate seat in New York State.
Obama’s great speeches have energized young Americans through out the country. College age American youngsters are the torch bearers of the Obama campaign. Senator has registered millions of this young army to vote. This is the invisible army that will overwhelm the old political coalitions. Obama’s will win the presidency of the United States, when his invisible army of young people marches into voting booths in November, 2008. This historical milestone will definitely shatter all the former alliances and strategies of the past. When that day comes there will be no more red states and blue states. That outdated strategy will disappear. You can hear some of that from Senator Obama’s speeches.
Senator Obama also has energized the new Americans and especially the people of color like no other in history. You can see the electricity and enthusiasm and the inspiration his campaign has instilled in them. In many large American cities the presidential campaign is the talk of the town. Most of those new Americans are registering to vote in very large numbers and getting ready to vote for Senator in the general election. One can see large East-African immigrants standing in line in an extremely cold night in democratic caucuses in Minneapolis last February. When you ask them why they came out in such cold night? They will tell you, they have come out to vote for Senator Obama.
Since he has won, 14 out of 17th democratic primary contests, Hillary resorted to a nasty negative campaigning in which threw everything at Senator Obama, the so-called kitchen sink strategy which revolves around the notion, the Clinton campaign will throw everything at Obama and just can hope to see what can stick. The kitchen sink failed to work against Obama. These days the Clinton campaign is resorting one desperate strategy after another, but all those attacks became unsuccessful. She challenged Senator Obama on his speeches saying they are just words; she also accused him of plagiarizing some of them. She claimed she is ready at day one. One time she claimed of having more experience than Senator Obama. But none of the above-named tactics worked.
That is why her supporters and campaign resort to the race card from time to time. First came the failed vice-presidential running mate of Walter Mondale, and then came the other failed democratic candidate of 1972, Mr. George McGovern who also said America is more ready for a back man than a woman. James Caraville, a senior Clinton supporter equated Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico who endorsed Obama to Judas who sold Jesus with a 30 coins of silver. The Clinton campaign and their surrogates may already have done and irreversible damage to the Democratic Party. They have clearly resorted to the late Republican strategist’s tactics Lee Al water, Karol Rove and others.
Obama presidential candidacy is the best thing that happens to America and the world for that matter. He has injected hope, transcending race and unifying America. The media is just making this race close. But this race is not close at all. Following Super Tuesday Senator has won 12 primaries and caucuses in the race. Clinton narrowly won Ohio and Texas was a draw. Senator Obama walked away with more delegates from Texas. The he won overwhelmingly in Wyoming and Mississippi. The Clinton campaign and some media outlets are making us belief that the PA is the decisive battle. PA is the new goal post. Every day, there is a new story from the Clinton campaign.
The unprecedented Obama campaign has dazzled Americans, especially the young people. If you to see this, look at the footage of the MSNBC debate held in the University of PA on the 04/02/08. Senator Obama clearly is a social revolutionary he is engaged in an eternal struggle with the powers that be. After the long and bruising presidential election are over, the American people will reap the benefits. For Obama, the fight for the small person did not start while he was in the Illinois Senate or United States Senate, it is started for him very long time ago, as soon Senator Obama graduated from Harvard University; he came to Chicago and became a community organizer. For years, Senator Obama was fighting for the poor people.
Reverend Wright’s controversy was a page from the old failing politics of the past
The recent snippets from reverend Wrights sermons to damage and tie Senator Obama is nothing but a glimpse a politics of distraction, spin. This is a scene from the politics of the past that put America in a lot of trouble. This is the politics of guilt by association. This is a page from the bad politics of the old guard. The time for the shallow policy of repetition and lies is over. That kind of mentality immersed America in a wrong and devastating war in Vietnam. The mentality that again embroiled America in an endless destructive war in Iraq must change. This are some of the politics, and mentality Senator Obama want to change and puts behind us once and for all.
The Obama campaign is a blessing that happened to America and the world. What you see here is a candidate who came from ordinary background, he is the real epitome of diversity, and he was the son of a Kenyan father and a white Kansan mother. He borned in Hawaii, lived in Indonesia, went to college in California, New York, Boston, started his work experience in Illinois. His life alone is an inspiration. Obama is an automatic role model to so many struggling both young and old people around the world. Obama has overcome so mush odds against his life while growing up. In the presidential race he overcame tremendous odds. His lighting success reflects that his message is resonating with the American people. The old guard will not go down easily. They will continue to attract Senator Obama about everything. They will manufacture lies. They will propagate and repeat non story such as the selected snippets here and there from reverend Wrights speeches without addressing the lingering racial difficulties in America. This time, the American people will not fall for their spin, lies and half truths. The time to challenge the corporate media is now. In the advent of the Internet, the days for the corporate media domination are slowly but surely coming to an end.
Senator Obama’s movement is an extension of the Dr. King’s, JFks, RFKs and Mahatma Gandhi vision of hope, peace and loving your enemy. The Obama campaign symbolizes what Americans can do together. It symbolizes hope, cooperation and the big picture. The is a new kind of preaching, a new kind of vision which is so different than the politics of the past. Senator Obama is in a quest to change the old politics of divide, spin, slash, politics of trivial distractions and dance around the real issues, while embroiled into finger pointing and focusing what divides us not what united us.
Suleiman Egeh
MS: Molecular Biology
MA: Science Education
Email: soleimoneg@yahoo.com
Suleiman Egeh is a freelance writer, a regular commentator of current events in
