Obama Is Coming, Clear The Way!
Author: James Opiko

"Obama biro, yawne yo!" (Obama is coming, clear the way) --
Tens of thousands of cheering Luo "Tribesmen" and ululating
women screamed as they welcomed Senator Barack Obama (D-IL)
back to his father's ancestral land -- Nyangoma Kogelo village
in Luo Land, Western Kenya, several weeks ago.

In a matter of hours Obama had soared to unprecedented
political prominence in Kenya, eclipsing a bunch of corrupt and
heartless nincompoops -- The (Mt. Kenya Mafia), who are
ruthlessly grinding beautiful Kenya to the ground.

The only difference between the Mt. Kenya Mafia and the current
U.S. Republican administration, is that the former have brought
Kenya down to it's "Economic Knees," while it's virtually
impossible for George Bush's government to bring down the
mighty economy of the United States, no matter how much they
misappropriate it's coffers by way of inflated Iraq
reconstruction contracts or Katrina FEMA trailers. Otherwise
both groups employ similar schemes - exploiting and
manipulating ethnic (racial) intolerance and promoting rampant
corruption -- a bunch of "cold-blooded" louts.

The six year cesspool of a mess presided over by the Bush
administration might not be in vain after all. It has made
America hungry for a messenger with a message of hope.

In the NBC "Meet The Press" interview of Sunday 22nd October, I
watched Senator Obama intimate that -- based on the responses he
has been receiving across the country, he is considering running
for the presidency of The United States in 2008.

What impressed me most about him is how he tackled the question
regarding his previous assertion in 2004 -- that he would
complete his six year Senate term and not run for President in
2008: "I have thought about the possibility, but I have not
thought about it with the seriousness and depth I think is
required," Obama said. "My main focus is on 2006, and making
sure that we re-take the Congress. After November 7th, I will
sit down and consider it."

Unlike the shifty, programmed, and selfishly partisan
politicians I am used to watching on Sunday morning political
TV, Barack Obama countered Tim Russert's questions with poise,
spontaneity and most important, he seemed very genuine.

In a political system muddied and tainted by arrogance,
corruption and incompetence, watching and listening to Obama is
inordinately refreshing.

In Obama I see an intelligent and capable man, unlike the
current President who constantly reminds me of an unprepared
and confused "open book, open notes" exam taker, badly
rehearsed and totally incapable of articulating his views
without the stewardship of his father's cronies, Karl Rove his
"Political Architect" and a bone breaking conglomeration of
"Hyena" special interest groups.

Obama's apparent good human qualities added to the fact that he
is a great American story, makes the Senator a very attractive
prospect for the ultimate prize in politics -- The Presidency
of The United States.

Is Obama Presidential material?

Many cite his lack of political experience, claiming his resume
is too thin for a run at the Presidency. I disagree and here is
why:

1. Unlike other black leaders, Obama doesn't grind "white
noses" in Racism, and at the same time he is a symbol of hope
to millions of dis-affected blacks and other minorities.

Judging by his Senatorial election win of a 70% majority, Obama
has proven that he is a very powerful vote magnet across racial
lines. He has established an "inclusive" track record that
would be vital in a presidential election if he decides to run.
His candidacy would draw out millions of dormant black voters
thus making the Democratic candidacy more viable.

On the flipside, we all know that there are some whites such as
the right wing gutter constituents of con-man Rush Limbaugh, who
will forever embrace Racism and will never accept a black
president. A President Obama would mark the beginning of the
placement this irritant breed to the fringes of political
obscurity.

2. He is NOT a bumbling idiot, appears humble and has not been
tainted with partisan politics. Perhaps even more important is
that he is a confident intellectual, which I think is a
necessary pre-requisite for handling the complex issues of the
highest political office in the world.

3. The last Republican President who had some smarts was the
foul-mouthed bigot -- Richard Milhouse Nixon, who engineered
his own downfall with a lethal concoction of homophobia,
anti-Semitism, anti-black and "Communist Paranoia." As a matter
of fact Nixon's political career spanned three decades of scare
mongering, witch-hunts and dirty tricks, the same tactics that
have been successfully deployed by the current administration
over the last six years.

All others after him have been bumbling buffoons with slight
exceptions in George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan.

Reagan the Serial Liar who made Americans feel good about
themselves, was not only ill informed but partially senile
towards the end of his second term - not particularly smart,
but a great "Political Actor," whose major achievements
included presiding over the disintegration of the Soviet Empire
(which was inevitable anyway), misuse of the World Bank and
funding of CIA death squads to safeguard the corporate thievery
by US multinational companies in Latin American countries....
and the worst in my opinion; propping the racist Apartheid
regime in South Africa.

The "Great Communicator" was just another Republican crook!

Bill Clinton and John Kennedy did not have that much
experience. Abraham Lincoln ran after two years in the House,
Woodrow Wilson after two years as governor, and Franklin D.
Roosevelt & Jimmy Carter after four years as governor.

Perhaps Dr. Martin Luther King summed it up best in his "The
Drum Major Instinct" sermon delivered at Ebenezer Baptist
Church, Atlanta, Georgia, February 4, 1968 - He said:
"Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve.... You
only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love. And
you can be that servant," qualities that are thoroughly lacking
in the Republican base - the "self-chosen" people of "Faith."

If the Democrats nominate Hillary Clinton, a very polarizing
Democrat, the Republican smear spigots will spill out of
control and flood the whole country to an extent that the
Katrina calamity will look like a storm in a teacup. On the
other hand, an Obama nomination would fuel vicious racial and
below the belt "Nyangau" attacks from the right wing, like the
slime being spewed by Republican troglodytes against black
Democrat Harold Ford Jr. in the Tennessee, or by incumbent
Senator George "Macaca" Allen in Virginia.

I wonder if Senator Obama has the stomach for such personal and
racist attacks -- a GOP staple!

Colin Powell assessed these circumstances in 2000 and chickened
out, and subsequently dimmed his star serving in this ham-fisted
administration for four years before being pushed out in favor
of "yes-woman" Condoleezza Rice. It is rumored that he feared
political assassination.

Will Obama follow through or is his potential candidacy just
hype?

It is time for America to put it's Racist legacy behind it, to
re-assess its future, and take a closer look at this rising
star, for I think Barack Obama is ready -- to cleanse the
"maligned" soul of America.


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