A WATER-SHED FOR DEMOCRACY.
As a septuagenarian with a life long feeling for both jazz and the blues, the author still shudders at the sound of Billie Holiday's recording of 'Strange Fruit' and Louis Armstrong singing and playing the classic Waller/Razaf piece 'Black and Blue' "I'm white inside but that don't help my case" etc., Likewise, films of man's inhumanity to man, depicted dramatically in 'To Kill a Mocking Bird'/ 'Heat of the Night'/ 'Mississippi Burning; the disgraceful murder of Medgar Evers and many others. These atrocities will, hopefully, start to fade into history, although, like the casualties of war, must never be forgotten. Well, this week the USA made a start. Fittingly in the shape of an African American.
It may, however, be sentiment that got Barack Obama to the White House but it will have to be much more than that to make him successful. Only time will give us the answer. If he pursues what would appear to be his socialist agenda to the full, we can only expect our own economy to be hit even harder than we are about to witness. As we know to our detriment, the NHS sucks in hundreds of thousands of immigrants to sponge off the Taxpayer GB funded service. He will obviously be aware of this possibility, which will trigger civil unrest of a different kind. Very tough. He must also perform far better than the most recent Democratic administrations of Carter and Clinton. The latter leaving us with what became the 'credit crunch', along with a very unstable world which we can probably connect to political correctness. The US diplomacy of the nineties subscribed to this with gusto. The docudrama 'The path to 9/11', with Harvey Keitel, told a vivid story of world terrorism, based on fact, gave credence to this. The West, and Obama in particular, must not go back down that route.
From a conservative viewpoint, what of the political up side? He certainly looks and, up to now, acts the part. To coin an American metaphor, let's hope he doesn't 'wet the bed'.
HE IS ALSO HALF WHITE. WE WISH HIM WELL!
It may, however, be sentiment that got Barack Obama to the White House but it will have to be much more than that to make him successful. Only time will give us the answer. If he pursues what would appear to be his socialist agenda to the full, we can only expect our own economy to be hit even harder than we are about to witness. As we know to our detriment, the NHS sucks in hundreds of thousands of immigrants to sponge off the Taxpayer GB funded service. He will obviously be aware of this possibility, which will trigger civil unrest of a different kind. Very tough. He must also perform far better than the most recent Democratic administrations of Carter and Clinton. The latter leaving us with what became the 'credit crunch', along with a very unstable world which we can probably connect to political correctness. The US diplomacy of the nineties subscribed to this with gusto. The docudrama 'The path to 9/11', with Harvey Keitel, told a vivid story of world terrorism, based on fact, gave credence to this. The West, and Obama in particular, must not go back down that route.
From a conservative viewpoint, what of the political up side? He certainly looks and, up to now, acts the part. To coin an American metaphor, let's hope he doesn't 'wet the bed'.
HE IS ALSO HALF WHITE. WE WISH HIM WELL!
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