proves how right I was to decorate here almost like a campaign
site, in the beginning of the year.
There was a two-second pause
with my mouth simply open, after hearing the news from G. I was stunned. We all
witnessed the history. And like what the latest issue of Newsweek says, the
world has never watched any vote in any nation so closely – the world hopes for its first president.
Well I admit I’m just an
ordinary 15-year-old student. I admit I don’t pay much attention to the
policies or the practical solutions for the crises, at least, much less than
that I pay to his appealing speeches. Beautiful words and phrases easily move
me. Yes I guess I’m a fanatic of orators. (I always say that if I were born in
the time of Hitler, Mussolini, Lenin or Mao, I would probably be a zealot of
them)
Anyway I believe in charisma. And you can never deny it’s an enormous part
of any outstanding presidency or leadership. Obama has got so much of that - “There’s
not a liberal America, or a conservative America. It’s the United States of America. There’s not a black America, or a white America, or a Latino America, or an Asian America. It’s the
United States of America.”, said in the speech for Kerry’s campaign in 2004.
History tells us not every
president in the past got this key to win his people’s trust. Kennedy, Reagan
and Clinton are probably the very rare examples. I believe Obama will be the forth example, especially in a time which
acutely needs unity and faith.
Though I’ve always been told not to be too enthusiastic to
political leaders, I whole-heartedly believe in Obama, the one to show hope and
solutions to the world. Perhaps this is what he means “the audacity of hope”.
p.s. Obama's victory speech in Chicago
"The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get
there in one year or even one term, but America - I have never been
more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there. I promise you -
we as a people will get there."
"Tonight we proved once more that the true strength of our nation comes
not from our the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from
the enduring power of our ideals: democracy, liberty, opportunity, and
unyielding hope."
