Notes on O-bam-a and the Arab Spring

When Prz-O took office one of the first actions he took was to reach out to the Arab world and extend a hand in friendship and peace. He traveled to Egypt and gave one of the most inspiring speeches of our times. All over the Arab world (and most of the rest of the world) people were amazed by the man and by our country. Before his election, the foreign press, and interviews with individuals around the world showed a profound belief that this man could not and would not be elected prz of the u of a. No one believed that this country, our country, could or would elect a black man, a political outsider whose father lived and died in Kenya to the highest office of the most powerful country in the world. The Bush dynasty and the actions by the 2nd Bush to attack and invade foreign countries and to strongly promote the wealthy over the good of the country had left the rest of the world to believe that this man would never 'be allowed' to become prz. Bush and Cheney had built up an image of the us as run by a small group of powerful white men who controlled the country and ran it as a small fiefdom to line the pockets of the few. Over and over they displayed contempt for the rest of the world and an unwillingness or inability to even acknowledge the reality of their actions. And the world took note. American run not for the people, by the people and of the people. No, America run by the elite, for the elite and of the elite. Elite old white men with an enormous concentration of wealth, determined to consolidate the wealth further.

Then the unthinkable happened. The unbelievable happened. The election result that the rest of the world had already decided was impossible. The first African American Prz of the U of A elected.

At that moment the world experienced a major paradigm shift. They came in one night to understand that elections could be free and open and honest in this country, that democracy could prevail. 8 years earlier, the majority of America was defeated by 1 supreme court justice in a 5-4 ruling.