USA changes guard for a new beginning
Friday, 7 November 2008
Barak Hossain Obama has shattered convention on several counts to become elected as the 44th President of the United States. He is the first Afro-America to be elected President to be now eligible to grace the most powerful public office not only in his country but also in the world. The Afro-Americans only fifty years ago had to face segregation and even lacked the right to vote in some states of the USA. But now they would be having one of their own commanding the White House leading their country and also the world.
Obama's triumph marks conclusively that racism in the USA is a matter of the past and how well the ethnic minorities are now integrated with the mainstream. This vindicates again the strength of the US democracy. This strength was also amply illustrated by the superb concession speech that the Republican presidential candidate, Senator John McCain, made immediately after the electoral vote-count. It reflected the true spirit of democracy in the USA. On his part, Obama himself underscored in his post-victory speech that his victory, above all, marks that American idealism is alive and well and Americans in general are keen to regain the moral initiative. That initiative has unfortunately been found slipping away from them under some of the unilateral policies of the incumbent US administration.
Worldwide, as opinion polls showed, Obama is no less popular than in his own country. The majority of conscious people in other countries have been as eager for his triumph as the Americans who elected him and they would be now hoping like Obama's countrymen that the USA will make a fresh new beginning under him and that the great country would, once again, rise to a well-earned position of global leadership through right actions and aspirations.
President-elect Obama reiterated his commitment to play America's part in saving the world's increasingly endangered environment. There is worldwide awareness that non-cooperation of the USA in undertaking anti-pollution measures with other countries, so far, has been posing as one of the major challenges to protection of the world's environment. But now tensions on this score will likely dissipate because Obama highlighted in his election campaign--throughout-- his very great resolve to put an end to the image of the USA as the greatest polluting country on earth. He has plans rather to put the USA in the leadership position in adopting green policies to save the global environment. The world can also expect more considerate exercise of the US foreign policies to be reflected in troops withdrawal from Iraq and also for combating terrorism effectively and justifiably and not committing excesses on the plea of dealing with it.
But the greatest challenge of the Obama presidency will be putting the US economy on a healing course at the fastest. This is going to be a very daunting challenge, even by the admissions of the best-known US experts. The fears of a great depression now haunt all in the USA and other parts of the world. Even as Obama's supporters were celebrating victory, the same could not detract attention from further major signs of decline of the real economy in the USA. Therefore, President Obama's main immediate task would be to be pull up the US economy from its tailspin, steady it and put it on a path of full recovery. The USA has been pivotal to the health of the global economy. All countries would be affected varyingly from a persisting economic crisis in the USA. The new US President would be rendering a service not only to the US economy but to the global economy as well by helping to address the deep-seated problems of the world's biggest economy, with a lot of skill and vision.
Obama's triumph marks conclusively that racism in the USA is a matter of the past and how well the ethnic minorities are now integrated with the mainstream. This vindicates again the strength of the US democracy. This strength was also amply illustrated by the superb concession speech that the Republican presidential candidate, Senator John McCain, made immediately after the electoral vote-count. It reflected the true spirit of democracy in the USA. On his part, Obama himself underscored in his post-victory speech that his victory, above all, marks that American idealism is alive and well and Americans in general are keen to regain the moral initiative. That initiative has unfortunately been found slipping away from them under some of the unilateral policies of the incumbent US administration.
Worldwide, as opinion polls showed, Obama is no less popular than in his own country. The majority of conscious people in other countries have been as eager for his triumph as the Americans who elected him and they would be now hoping like Obama's countrymen that the USA will make a fresh new beginning under him and that the great country would, once again, rise to a well-earned position of global leadership through right actions and aspirations.
President-elect Obama reiterated his commitment to play America's part in saving the world's increasingly endangered environment. There is worldwide awareness that non-cooperation of the USA in undertaking anti-pollution measures with other countries, so far, has been posing as one of the major challenges to protection of the world's environment. But now tensions on this score will likely dissipate because Obama highlighted in his election campaign--throughout-- his very great resolve to put an end to the image of the USA as the greatest polluting country on earth. He has plans rather to put the USA in the leadership position in adopting green policies to save the global environment. The world can also expect more considerate exercise of the US foreign policies to be reflected in troops withdrawal from Iraq and also for combating terrorism effectively and justifiably and not committing excesses on the plea of dealing with it.
But the greatest challenge of the Obama presidency will be putting the US economy on a healing course at the fastest. This is going to be a very daunting challenge, even by the admissions of the best-known US experts. The fears of a great depression now haunt all in the USA and other parts of the world. Even as Obama's supporters were celebrating victory, the same could not detract attention from further major signs of decline of the real economy in the USA. Therefore, President Obama's main immediate task would be to be pull up the US economy from its tailspin, steady it and put it on a path of full recovery. The USA has been pivotal to the health of the global economy. All countries would be affected varyingly from a persisting economic crisis in the USA. The new US President would be rendering a service not only to the US economy but to the global economy as well by helping to address the deep-seated problems of the world's biggest economy, with a lot of skill and vision.