tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13726943.post2782868142169715114..comments2024-01-19T21:33:09.716+00:00Comments on E Y E W E A R, THE BLOG - FREEDOM MEANS BEING UNAFRAID TO WRITE WHAT YOU THINK: Dramatic Iowa CaucusEYEWEARhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01900801847916951522noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13726943.post-7431159410883272352008-01-05T02:54:00.000+00:002008-01-05T02:54:00.000+00:00Yes, Todd, I believe Obama is a very competent and...Yes, Todd, I believe Obama is a very competent and articulate man, as well as a very good man. <BR/><BR/>Next year we will all be saying "President Barack Obama" without a moment's thought. Ever since I saw Obama's origin as the son of an extremely poor goat-herder used as material for a Jon Stewart sketch, I have felt an increasing certainty about this. A woman president? Who cares. It would be good and all, but the world has already had its Maggie Thatchers and its Benazir Bhuuttos. Can women be just as corrupt as men? Probably? The issue, now, is to see if America has gone beyond racism. Obama would be able to show that it is showing signs of that. As Andrew Sullivan stated in The Atlantic (http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200712/obama/3) this month:<BR/><BR/><BR/>"Consider this hypothetical. It’s November 2008. A young Pakistani Muslim is watching television and sees that this man—Barack Hussein Obama—is the new face of America. In one simple image, America’s soft power has been ratcheted up not a notch, but a logarithm. A brown-skinned man whose father was an African, who grew up in Indonesia and Hawaii, who attended a majority-Muslim school as a boy, is now the alleged enemy. If you wanted the crudest but most effective weapon against the demonization of America that fuels Islamist ideology, Obama’s face gets close. It proves them wrong about what America is in ways no words can."Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15907060405795620941noreply@blogger.com