Revolutionary Change
America and the world it leads is ready for a revolutionary change. A fresh start. Watching the results of the 2008 presidential election with a full house of Americans, citizens and wannabes, silently riveted at the several TV screens at the Foreign Correspondents Club in Hong Kong, starting at 8am because of the 13 hour time difference, yell and applaud in sheer delight whenever another state and its electors were declared in Obama’s favor, there was no doubt in anyone’s mind that America and the world are ready for the long overdue dramatic change taking place.
The death on the eve of the 2008 presidential election of the woman who raised Obama, his white grandmother, was also the death knoll of lilly white bread American and European politics. Obama’s Kansas born and bred white mother and Kenyan black father were rebels with a cause. Any wonder Obama led a revolutionary change in American and global politics?
The historic 2008 presidential campaign and election was revolutionary not just because of the candidates color, age and sex, but the glaring absence of the incumbent president from the campaign trail, the fact that it was the longest, most expensive internet leveraged fund raising, managed news media with blogs, technologically driven grass roots voter registration drives, get out the vote campaigns and viral marketing with a record turnout of young non-white voters at the 300,000 voting booths across America, over four time zones that elected an African American ─ who is not a descendant of slaves ─ America’s 44th president.
Watching the 200,000 people from across America who had traveled to Chicago’s Grant Park to celebrate the historic revolutionary change party until the wee morning hours, I couldn’t help flash back to the thousands of people who came to Chicago in 1968 to demand revolutionary change of the Democratic Party at its convention that year at the height of the Vietnam War. It took 40 years, but America has finally acknowledged it is ready for change. Now the hard part. Meeting of expectations and making the necessary changes.
The death on the eve of the 2008 presidential election of the woman who raised Obama, his white grandmother, was also the death knoll of lilly white bread American and European politics. Obama’s Kansas born and bred white mother and Kenyan black father were rebels with a cause. Any wonder Obama led a revolutionary change in American and global politics?
The historic 2008 presidential campaign and election was revolutionary not just because of the candidates color, age and sex, but the glaring absence of the incumbent president from the campaign trail, the fact that it was the longest, most expensive internet leveraged fund raising, managed news media with blogs, technologically driven grass roots voter registration drives, get out the vote campaigns and viral marketing with a record turnout of young non-white voters at the 300,000 voting booths across America, over four time zones that elected an African American ─ who is not a descendant of slaves ─ America’s 44th president.
Watching the 200,000 people from across America who had traveled to Chicago’s Grant Park to celebrate the historic revolutionary change party until the wee morning hours, I couldn’t help flash back to the thousands of people who came to Chicago in 1968 to demand revolutionary change of the Democratic Party at its convention that year at the height of the Vietnam War. It took 40 years, but America has finally acknowledged it is ready for change. Now the hard part. Meeting of expectations and making the necessary changes.
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