President Obama And The Chance For Change 0
The latest Gallup poll has the Democrats sitting on 52% of the vote and the Republicans on 41%. This is good news.
Americans have spent the last eight years living in what amounts to a dictatorship. With fudged elections and battles with fictitious, unseen terrorist enemies Bush has lost credibility.
On top of this his attacks on foreign countries, each of them carried out with a cry of freedom, being little more than attempts to seize control of their resources, it’s about time the USA stood down from its role as global oppressor.
Should Barack Obama win tomorrow’s election, and I for one hope he does, he will have a monumental task ahead of him to convince the world that the USA can change.
Too long have Americans been seen as illiterate, boastful and brash. As bullies that proclaim their superiority to the rest of the world by dint of the fact that they claim to have God on their side and have the guns to back it up.
The USA is simultaneously enriched and bankrupted by the notion that you can be what you want to be and that everybody has the chance to control their destiny.
Sadly this is not true.
One look at the top ten in the Fortune 500 from 2008 shows you that only a select few are in charge of the world and chances are you’re never joining their club.
- Wal-Mart Stores
CEO: Lee Scott - Exxon Mobil
CEO: Rex Tillerson - Royal Dutch Shell
CEO: Jeroen van der Veer - BP
CEO: Tony Hayward - Toyota Motor
CEO:Fujio Cho - Chevron
CEO: David O’Reilly - ING Group
CEO: Michel Tilmant - Total
CEO: Christophe de Margerie - General Motors
CEO: Richard Wagone - ConocoPhillips
CEO: James Mulva
Oil, automobiles, a bit of money and a retail giant. The men at the helm of these companies, and they are all men, are in control. It is these people that Obama will have to deal with.
Now I don’t know enough about Senator Obama to know which side of the fence President Obama will be on. My guess is that he’s not too deeply ingrained into the world that President Bush is, I can only hope that he will be enough of an outsider to effect the change required.
My fingers are crossed.
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