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A change for the better
#1
04.11.2008 Source:  URL: http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columni...gebetter-0

Only Satan would have been worse than the Bush regime. Therefore it could be argued that the new administration in the USA could never be worse than the one which divorced the hearts and minds of Americans from their brothers in the international community, which appalled the rest of the world with shock and awe tactics that included concentration camps, torture, mass murder and utter disrespect for international law. Yet in choosing Obama, the people of America have opted to come back into the international fold. Welcome back, friends!

Barack Obama is one man who has a mission and a dream. He will not change the world, as he claims and he might not even change the USA, in the near future at least. Powerful lobbies control the strings which control the puppets in Washington – indeed, it is not Washington that needs to be changed, but the invisible barons dictating its policies.

However, Obama (while his running mate, Biden, is very much establishment and Zionist) is a breath of fresh air and the significance of his election yesterday cannot be overestimated. Firstly, the people of the USA have voted out the Bush regime and the odious mass-murdering thugs which controlled it and saw Washington vying with Nazi Germany for a place on the Podium of Horror. Himmler and Rumsfeld the Torturers, Goebbels and Rice the propaganda machines, Hitler and Bush the Fuhrers, masterminding concentration camps, medieval-style torture chambers, illegal invasions, acts of mass slaughter and horrific acts of cruelty as international law was consigned to the dustbin.

Secondly, the people of the USA, in choosing Obama, have given a clear message to the international community that enough is enough and despite having voted for the Bush regime twice, now make a stand in favour of dialogue and discussion, debate and respect for the law, for these are the precepts which Barack Obama proclaimed he would adopt in his external policy.

Those of us in the international community who predicted eight long years ago what would happen if Bush were elected must do two things. First, never forget the damage done by George W. Bush and his minions of evil and make sure that, like the generations after Hitler, history does not pardon these criminals as well-meaning politicians who were the victims of tough times. Secondly, we must give Brack Obama a blank page to write on, and hand him the pen with a sincere and open smile.

Welcome back, people of the United States, welcome back into the fold of the international community, where you will find friends and not foes, where you will find we all prefer to smile and not to cry and that when we do cry, our tears taste of salt just like yours do, whether we are pink, blue, white, yellow or black.

Thirdly, the United States of America managed to undergo a whole and long election process without becoming obsessed with the colour of people’s skin. The ghosts of the past have been exorcised for good and how great it is to see a society which has managed to pull together, when just yesterday we were witnessing segregation on buses and the KKK performing its evil and demonic deeds. The racists withing US society have been silenced and relegated to insignificance and made to look as absurd as those who spend all summer trying to get a tan and then speak badly about negroes or people with dark skin during the winter.

The new President will learn very soon that the rest of the world does not want the US missile shield in eastern Europe, does not want US troops in Iraq, does not want the USA to change the world – the US President was elected by his people to govern America, (North America, the United States of America) and nowhere else. The rest of the world is to be treated with the due and proper respect, on a basis of fraternity and equality and not talked down to like some master deriding a slave. As for Afghanistan and the more radical elements within the Moslem world, dialogue is the key, not confrontation.

Bush was never going to be intelligent enough to discover and understand the meaning of Realpolitik. Obama is intelligent, articulate and blessed apparently with the humility denoting the aura of a great man. We welcome Barack Obama and the people of the United States back into the international community with open arms. Let us build bridges together, let us respect each other’s cultures, let us be friends.

This time around, please do not let us down again.

Timothy BANCROFT-HINCHEY 
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#2
AMEN!
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#3
Good article, so what do the people think of your newly elected president? Yes all leaders are puppets and that same old story!, but each leader brings their own energy into the position, a new pattern of thought, a new wave of collective thought into the country that this person will lead.

I am still amazed at how much money has been spent in this long campaign, but that is over now and I suppose the real work will begin with the change of Pluto on November 28th, and who said astrology has no function in the real world?

Just a short rewind in time, your new elected president was not permitted to attend school with a white person, nor had any civil rights, but here we are!

So what is the feeling of the future for the US? Do you feel it will break the color barrier that has been so strong for the growth of the US, will it cause conflict with those who are white extremists? Or will this create a united country, what do you all think?
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#4
AJ, By the time Obama attended school in the states they were integrated . He could  attend school with whites.I'm several years older than he and I attended very good schools ,my high school being one of the best in the nation, where there were whites and blacks. The coroner of Cincinnati ,who was also one of the best endocrinologists in the country, is a black man. He and I were classmates.Technically blacks had every civil right whites had at that time.

As I mentioned I'm several years older than he and I can remember colored only drinking fountains, restrooms etc.

I think most Americans are feeling cautiously optimistic. 

I found it interesting that some major cities had troops on standby in anticipation of trouble after the election had it gone either way. Instead perfect strangers hugged each other ,laughed together and danced in the streets.
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#5
MN,

I only know from television reports and media, so that is why I always ask the opinion of you guys who are there and actually feeling the energy.

I see it is a big positive, and it really has nothing to do with the color of his skin, just the amount of people who actually lined up for such a long time to vote, and even though the length of the campaign is ridiculous, it has provided the time needed for the citizens to actually think that they do have some say in the changes.

I feel that the citizens of the US (correct me if I am wrong) have depended on its government to take charge, looked up to the president like some type of god! Felt like they have no power or control, and the only way in which they did have a say was through protest? Is this incorrect?

It has always seemed that the US president is unreachable, excluding JFK, they just have never taken any notice of what is going on, but Obama seems to be a little different, maybe its his youth but maybe I am just an optimist!
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#6
Hi AJ...

There is a lot of optimism here in NY State. But 1st referring to when Obama went to school... I was born 6 yrs after him, in 67, when he would have been in elementary school... this was a time of severe racial riots in schools around here. By the time I was 5yrs old and going to school... they were 'bussing' kids in order to 'desegregate' the black and white public schools. My experience of public schools in New York State was one with plenty of racial tensions!


As far as a feeling and energy of optimism.... I'll share that on November 4th, I was watching the TV in a crowded bar in a 'liberal' upstate NY city. When we knew he won... the entire city started screaming! You could hear the hooting and hollering from every direction. People were laughing and singing and crying.... just like across the country. When he made his acceptance speech I cried of course, but I looked around the room and saw so many tears! Tears of joy and relief and what was most shocking to me... was the men! All the middle aged white men with eyes teared up! I didn't expect that. It was as if someone flicked the switch and we felt a flicker of pride in being American again. Something many of us haven't felt for most of our lives. If anything... deep shame has been leading the way in recent years.

However... I think people realize that he is not the 'second coming' and he won't be perfect and won't be able to fix everything. But he seems to want to speak for the people. We will see. I'm so glad he has the chance. I think I can speak for a lot of Americans in saying that in just being who he is and where he is.. He HAS given us hope.

But there is still plenty of racism here. I think much more that whites want to admit. I am white so I hear what people with little minds say! I hope his leadership can open some minds and help heal. I'm optimistic and hopeful!

January 20th cannot get here soon enough.
-- sheri
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#7
Yes, The bussing began in the mid- late '60's but even growing up in my elementary years in what is considered the south we had black kids in our school. I spent the later part of my elementary years in north and there were blacks in that school as well. I'm sure it wasn't pleasant for them however.Later when we moved north and going to jr. high and high school we had to transfer busses in a riot torn area in '67. It seems so strange because apparently the adults didn't realize the danger we were in. We were mugged almost daily as we chose to walk the rest of the way through a black neighborhood rather than stand and wait on the main drag where the worst of it,(the riots),was.Finally the parents decided to carpool us making themselves late for work and us getting to school very early.

I have to say that I personally experienced much prejudice being from the south from northerners, though it seems we weren't as prejudice as they.  For example I had never heard the "n" word so much in my life as when we moved north.We  would have been punished had we used that word.
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#8
Well things have changed Leftygrl and MN, and you both have amazing stories, because you both grew up during this major transformation I bet during high school that you would have never thought a black person would one day be your president..

You are not alone when you share such optimism and this man has a big job ahead of him, the whole world is depending on him to change things for the better, to reform the US and one of our newspapers had a headline that Obama will lead the world to a new order!

 
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#9
But, G.W. Bush is still the only real US president at this moment.

It's like Obama is made globally as a holy attribute for something around 20th January to happen.
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#10
AJ,I think I can safely say that most Americans do not look upon their president as a god.Lincoln and Kennedy may have come close but ...

Somehow I think I always knew we would have a black president .

BTW... I don't know if this has been publicized globally but Obama told the youth of America  "I don't want to see your underwear." lol!!

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