So in all the noise that is and will be written about Obama very few people are likely to read this, however, unlike most people I don’t write for others I write for myself and if someone else happens upon it and likes it more the better if they don’t it doesn’t really matter.
There was an English man called Alistair Cooke and when I was driving my car on a Friday evening I used to listen to him talking about America from his longest ever running radio show and he always had a different angle on the major events that were affecting the country. Surrounded by all the noise about Obama I long for his unusual American twang and his wisdom, sadly though he passed a way a few short years ago. He is one of the few celebrities, if you could call him that, who I have wanted to meet.
So what do I think about Obama? The only way of integrating a country is through sex. People have sex together and produce children that don’t have the prejudices of their parents. Two people sexually attracted by each other, from vastly different backgrounds and who fell in love have produced a man with no ridiculous prejudice towards blacks and no bitterness towards whites. You can feel it when you watch him talking. How could he be bitter towards whites when his mother deserted by the man she loved brought him up by herself? How he must miss her. As he stood there looking out at the crowd of 250,000 in isolation from all around him, alone as only the truly powerful can be, how he must have wanted her close with his own younger family.
Women are the most important people in society and I will never like the Islamic world when the role of women is so crushed. The people I have met who have most impressed me in life have generally been women. The stories of women from the 20th century from friends and relatives are truly impressive, such stories don’t exist in the Islamic world as women have no freedom, they have no voice, they are dependent on men. The Islamic world does not produce great men as it doesn’t allow women to grow and develop; great men such as Obama often have incredible mothers.
Finally Barack, if I can call you that, I would like to wish you luck and pray for you. I hope you are surrounded by strong people who have the courage to tell you when you are wrong, that you have the wisdom that Kennedy did to allow other views to develop to counteract your own so that you have opinions to juxtaposition your own against.
We have very little in common really, my hopes and aspirations are on a much smaller scale and infinitely more personal, anyone however, whatever level in society needs luck and I pray you have it. We have one important thing in common, though, I have much to be thankful from the women who have touched my life.
Friday, November 07, 2008
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