Who do you think is going to make it???
Barrack Obama or Hillary Rodham Clinton???
Barack Obama has built a commanding coalition among democratic voters, with especially strong support from men. While women remain a Clinton stronghold(for the obvious reasons). Obama still leads. But there are signs of vulnerability for Obama: while he has a strong edge among democratic voters on his ability to unite and inspire country. Clinton is still viewed by more democrats as prepared for the job. She’s scripting a tenacious stubbornly unyielding fight back to win votes from big states. Whether Hilary wins the democratic nomination or Obama does, history will be made in the U.S., where no other than a white male has run for the highest office in the land. A dream for many liberals who have chafed at the white male domination. A black man with an Islamic sounding middle name slugging it out for presidential candidature!!! What could be worse (huh?) than that? It will be like a tight slap on the egos of those white Americans who are prejudiced on the skin color issue.
Of course I don’t have anything against Hillary. I mean sharing the same gender I must be supporting her like any other woman. But I think more than women empowerment its racial discrimination that needs attention. There is a certain bias among individuals when it comes to holding important political positions. Their individual identity has been put under scrutiny. They are now referred to as the ‘black’ and the ‘woman’. More than their capabilities, its gender and color of the skin which has now become the hot topic for discussion.. If I had to pick, it would be Obama. But now all we can do is to wait and watch patiently. And I fear that if Obama emerges as a winner in the democratic race, he’ll be assassinated soon because such is the cruel side of this world. The weak is seldom allowed 2 raise his voices let alone become a president that too for a country like America. A country where racial discrimination is predominant. If Obama wins the presidential candidature (although it is said that republicans will be more liberal when it comes to dealing with India) it will hurt the egos of lakhs of racial discriminators. I confess I don’t know much about the U.S. elections but I am certainly oblivious to the fact how strong a foothold a president can set in the world affairs. A black president of U.S.--- a statement which if turns into reality would cause a sweeping change. Hopefully the hatred/discrimination will vanish. Hoping against the hope.
*Fingers crossed*
2 comments:
Having Obama at the top of the ticket would increase the Democratic majorities in the house and senate. Looking at it from a practical perspective, 43% of all voters in the United States have an unfavorable view of Hillary Clinton. There's no way that Hillary Clinton, starting with such high negatives, would help Democratic candidates. With her incredibly high negatives, Hillary is destined to lose the National race. She knows that. That's why she is desparately pleading for Democrats to send Obama to the back of the bus (even though he'll have the most pledged delegates) as Vice-President--that's the only way she could win. But there's no logical reason to do that. Many "Recovering Republicans" like me, and independents, intend to vote for Obama in the General Election, but would NOT vote for a CLINTON/OBAMA ticket. The best hope that the Democratic Party has to win the Presidency in 2008 is NOT to send Obama to the back of the bus; it's to throw Clinton under the bus!
I like the fact that this event is quite Historic in the sense that this has not happened before in America...A "Woman" and a "Black" guy vying for the top post....
Boy - this is GLOBALISATION !
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