Please tell me what you justifiably do not like about Barack Obama.
Is it his blackness? Is it because, as one writer to me called him, “a half-breed”? Is it because you don’t think he can handle foreign policy issues? Is it because you feel he does not have enough experience? Is it because he is from the left – a Democrat and not Republican? Is it because you believe he will be assassinated (somewhat racist in and of itself)? Is it because you feel he is too much on the side of pacifism, leaning towards peace with his willingness to negotiate as opposed to being hostile -- that you believe that to negotiate is appeasement? Just what is your reason?
For me, Barack Obama’s speech in Berlin, "A World that Stands as One," is outstanding. I am proud to call him American -- it gives me a sense of pride to be American as it should for all Americans.
In James Carroll's article for the Boston Gloge, "In Berlin, hope for the fall of other walls" he wrote: "There is the unfinished business of nuclear abolition, the burden of which belongs more to the United States than any nation. 'I love America,' Obama told Berlin, having just proved it both with his words, and with what his words implied."
In my wildest dreams, I could never envision, either in speech or substance, Bush or McCain making the same speech, or having the same views for that matter.
The speech is in every way exemplary of outstanding leadership.
“This is the moment when every nation in Europe must have the chance to choose its own tomorrow free from the shadows of yesterday.”
This is also the moment when America must have the chance to choose its own tomorrow free from the shadows of yesterday.
There is a time and a season for all things. Perhaps, just perhaps, “This is the moment.
