BARACK OBAMA: THE AUDACITY OF HOPE

The contenders for the next presidential election have started emerging from the woodwork. On the democratic side the two garnering the most attention are Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

Despite having almost no interest in national politics, the Perspective has read Mr Obama’s book, “The Audacity of Hope”. The book outlines Mr Obama’s thoughts on government and American policy. He tries to portray himself as someone willing to listen to multiple viewpoints and willing to compromise, but in every hard example in the book he is always right or the democrats are always right and the republicans are always wrong. Early in the book he says that this is exactly the problem in Washington.

Whoever gets the bid in the democratic party, Hillary or Barack, either will face a great challenge, neither a woman nor a black man has run for this countries highest elected office. Is America ready to make such a leap? The Perspective doesn’t think so. By mounting a campaign, it will break down some of the barriers though, and will lead eventually to the election of either a woman or a black or maybe a person of Hispanic descent. In the meantime look forward to 4 more years of the GOP.