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Change has come to America

Nov 23, 2008 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,
The Statue of Liberty smiled radiantly after the unstoppable and inevitable youngster, Mr. Barack Obama won the US Presidential elections.

He did exactly what I urged him to do in my letter “Time for a Black American President” (Kaieteur News 2007/03/08, “Run Barack until you take the White House”. It was bam, bam, bam, until Obama bammed into the White House to become President-elect.

In 1980, Democrat Presidential candidate, the Rev Jessie Jackson had proclaimed: “Hands that once picked cotton will now pick a president”. It happened. Jessie saw his prediction come to pass; tears of joy trickled down his cheeks.

In the early 1960s when Obama was born, the late Sam Cook sang out of oppression, “A change is gonna come”.

It happened in the form of Obama with the massive support of the Americans. A change was one of Obama’s primary objectives.

His victory should also be conceived in the spiritual perspective because after Judas fell before the disciples cast lots to replace him, they prayed and said ‘you, O lord, who know the hearts of all, show which of the two you have chosen’. And they cast lots and the lot fell on Matthias. Acts 1:24-26.

Similarly, before the Americans cast their ballots to replace the incumbent Mr. George Bush, obviously, they prayed and asked the Lord which of the two, Mc Cain or Obama, to choose and Obama was chosen overwhelmingly.

I am convinced that Obama was potentially a precocious President because his campaign strategies, economic and other policies were meticulously excogitated. His knowledge was beyond his age and brief duration as a first term senator.

It is my in-depth desire to see the slumped economy of America rise higher that the Statue of Liberty under the Obama Administration, in collaboration with the Republicans, the people of America and the rest of the world.
George Carrington

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