As of the debate last night I no longer have any doubt that Barack Obama will be our next President. That the opposition only has race baiting left as a vote-getting gimmick means they know they’ve lost. McPalin is no longer fighting to win but just fighting to staunch the bleeding from its own party.
Over at the Huffington Post today, Frank Schaeffer, author of Crazy for God posted his thoughts on an Obama Presidency. It’s an eloquent missive about what kind of President we need in these times, and I hope you click through to read it in full.
Nice stories or even unparalleled courage isn’t the only point. The greater point about Obama is that the midst of our worldwide financial meltdown, an expanding (and losing) war in Afghanistan, trying to extricate our country from a wrong and stupidly mistaken ruinously expensive war in Iraq, our mounting and crushing national debt, awaiting the next (and inevitable) al Qaeda attack on our homeland, watching our schools decline to Third World levels of incompetence, facing a general loss of confidence in the government that has been exacerbated by the Republicans doing all they can to undermine our government’s capabilities and programs… President Obama will take on the leadership of our country at a make or break time of historic proportions. He faces not one but dozens of crisis, each big enough to define any presidency in better times…
Obama brings a moral clarity to his leadership reserved for those who have had to work for everything they’ve gotten and had to do twice as well as the person standing next to them because of the color of their skin. His experience of succeeding in spite of his color, social background and prejudice could have been embittering or one that fostered a spiritual rebirth of forgiveness and enlightenment. Obama radiates the calm inner peace of the spirit of forgiveness. . .
Our country has rarely faced more uncertainty. This is the time for greatness. We have a great leader. We must be a great people backing him, fighting for him, sacrificing for a cause greater than ourselves.
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Thanks for linking to that. I admittedly love the drama of politics and Obama couldn’t have been better cast.
I think this upcoming Presidency is going to go down in hisotyr in a big way . . . there are just too many crisis points for the US and the next President is going to shape the trajectory for years to come. . .