Obama's youth support unseen risks
Isabel P. Ball
January 08, 2008
A historic moment happened in Iowa as we all know. The first African-American candidate won overwhelmingly for the democrats at 38% votes of the white majority state.
Obama garnered an impressive vote deluge from the young college age at 51%. The barrage of these voters, at first, tagged as undependable by cynics crashed that historic youth apathy to have come to Iowa and penned their votes for Obama.
It was like a rebellious parade of the youth against the establishment. Although, the votes have raised a question of ethicality and bordering illegality, when Obama wagered an invite, and the numbers of these youths that Obama was able to lure like pied piper to his cause is raising some concern. Maybe a little time down the political campaign road, when everyone else has seemed to cool down, after the seeming shot of hormone, and consequently the mesmerizing passion that have seemed to sweep the people massively in Iowa have crested, and sanity has taken over, a legal battle might emerge.
The youths and their related support to Obama, the youthful candidate, is concerning. We all associate youth with immaturity, happy-go-lucky, hedonism, pleasure seekers, liberal, and to top it all, typical of our youth today, drug and alcohol stupefied.
The youth power that propelled Obama in Iowa, a candidate of questionable substance, is a movement characteristically rich in quirkiness, lacking in wisdom that only comes with age. Selecting a leader to the highest position of the land, and for that matter, of the world, requires caution and deliberation. That is to say, there is a great deal of inadequacy and immaturity that the youths of America are investing into Obama, specially, at a time of crisis.
Politics as it seems to be viewed by the youths is like a grand party of drugs, boozing, going naked and wild sex much like the John Francis and the spring breaks wildness in Mexico. These very liberal, spoiled behaviors by these youths immersed in money and materialism, without saying, are now reflected in the unprecedented morality slide in America.
The arena of politics is an inner sanctum, a platform where the wise, pragmatic, dogmatic, and intellectuals are selected and anointed. Putting anyone less qualified is deleterious, to say the least. Election for the U.S. presidency is not an exercise of selecting someone likable and eloquent and speaking in abstract, generality, and non-specific terms.
Obama is that candidate. He is a planner and thinker, an opportunist with grand ambitions. He sees the value of his mottled bio that was began by his foreign student father from Kenya, who managed to entice a radical thinking white woman from Kansas, rumored to be an atheist. The brief marriage, lasted 2 years and the Kenyan father abandoned the family, took 2 more wives, then, returned to Kenya seemingly a disillusioned man and life consumed in drinking.
Seemingly a woman with nonconventional penchant, she remarried another Muslim man from Indonesia, with which Obama has a half-sister. Two strong Muslim influences in his life indoctrinated him into the Muslim schools, some say in Madrassa, and he also went to a Catholic school. It is the Muslim history that might have blazed into the media wires with an allegation that he refuses to display the patriotic pledge by placing his one hand to symbolize.
In the glare of popularity, I’m seeing the Oprah after effect on Obama’s appeal to the publics. He captivates them like a celebrity; a pop star just like the media is gung ho in its adulation of him. There’s been some comparison that he is likened to a Messiah and JFK in stature. MLK which he was also being compared to is more relevant, as they are both African Americans vouching to help the cause of their race, though MLK is incomparable in his eloquence, visions, and actions, and has more humility and sincerity than the power-chaser Obama.
His book, Audacity of Hope and Dreams of My Father were an orchestrated prose he carefully composed with a big idea in mind to preempt his political ambitions. It was a test and trial of its receptivity, as he went on to spill out even the most sensitive part of his life, sanctimoniously, which was his use of cocaine, marijuana and alcohol. In his meetings and speeches with the young people, including those in the grade and high school level, he reportedly brought up that part of his life, as if saying, it is okay to use these opiates, but then be sure and repent or reform later on in life. Some media pundit caught up on it, and chastised him. But because of the media stupor, such issues were swept under the rugs, made them very insignificant, thus his current status.
As a law graduate from Harvard, he took pride for being the first African American to have garnered the editorship of the schools paper Harvard Law Review. He taught law in Columbia University. But in my research about him I found nothing to state he practiced law. All the while, he was channeling his energy in politics-related activities, as a community organizer and assisting in the voter’s registration during Bill Clinton’s candidacy, then, running for political office as State Senator in Illinois, then hopping to
Washington as US Senator for 2 years.
With a lean resume to show, it is no surprise that he is being called a freshman by his political colleagues.
Whatever phenomenon Obama is creating in the American political landscape, it is the people that should wake up from a seeming state of stupor and opiate; examine the guy that might have the power of hocus pocus or voodoo, as to cause perplexity among even the sane Americans.
Obama garnered an impressive vote deluge from the young college age at 51%. The barrage of these voters, at first, tagged as undependable by cynics crashed that historic youth apathy to have come to Iowa and penned their votes for Obama.
It was like a rebellious parade of the youth against the establishment. Although, the votes have raised a question of ethicality and bordering illegality, when Obama wagered an invite, and the numbers of these youths that Obama was able to lure like pied piper to his cause is raising some concern. Maybe a little time down the political campaign road, when everyone else has seemed to cool down, after the seeming shot of hormone, and consequently the mesmerizing passion that have seemed to sweep the people massively in Iowa have crested, and sanity has taken over, a legal battle might emerge.
The youths and their related support to Obama, the youthful candidate, is concerning. We all associate youth with immaturity, happy-go-lucky, hedonism, pleasure seekers, liberal, and to top it all, typical of our youth today, drug and alcohol stupefied.
The youth power that propelled Obama in Iowa, a candidate of questionable substance, is a movement characteristically rich in quirkiness, lacking in wisdom that only comes with age. Selecting a leader to the highest position of the land, and for that matter, of the world, requires caution and deliberation. That is to say, there is a great deal of inadequacy and immaturity that the youths of America are investing into Obama, specially, at a time of crisis.
Politics as it seems to be viewed by the youths is like a grand party of drugs, boozing, going naked and wild sex much like the John Francis and the spring breaks wildness in Mexico. These very liberal, spoiled behaviors by these youths immersed in money and materialism, without saying, are now reflected in the unprecedented morality slide in America.
The arena of politics is an inner sanctum, a platform where the wise, pragmatic, dogmatic, and intellectuals are selected and anointed. Putting anyone less qualified is deleterious, to say the least. Election for the U.S. presidency is not an exercise of selecting someone likable and eloquent and speaking in abstract, generality, and non-specific terms.
Obama is that candidate. He is a planner and thinker, an opportunist with grand ambitions. He sees the value of his mottled bio that was began by his foreign student father from Kenya, who managed to entice a radical thinking white woman from Kansas, rumored to be an atheist. The brief marriage, lasted 2 years and the Kenyan father abandoned the family, took 2 more wives, then, returned to Kenya seemingly a disillusioned man and life consumed in drinking.
Seemingly a woman with nonconventional penchant, she remarried another Muslim man from Indonesia, with which Obama has a half-sister. Two strong Muslim influences in his life indoctrinated him into the Muslim schools, some say in Madrassa, and he also went to a Catholic school. It is the Muslim history that might have blazed into the media wires with an allegation that he refuses to display the patriotic pledge by placing his one hand to symbolize.
In the glare of popularity, I’m seeing the Oprah after effect on Obama’s appeal to the publics. He captivates them like a celebrity; a pop star just like the media is gung ho in its adulation of him. There’s been some comparison that he is likened to a Messiah and JFK in stature. MLK which he was also being compared to is more relevant, as they are both African Americans vouching to help the cause of their race, though MLK is incomparable in his eloquence, visions, and actions, and has more humility and sincerity than the power-chaser Obama.
His book, Audacity of Hope and Dreams of My Father were an orchestrated prose he carefully composed with a big idea in mind to preempt his political ambitions. It was a test and trial of its receptivity, as he went on to spill out even the most sensitive part of his life, sanctimoniously, which was his use of cocaine, marijuana and alcohol. In his meetings and speeches with the young people, including those in the grade and high school level, he reportedly brought up that part of his life, as if saying, it is okay to use these opiates, but then be sure and repent or reform later on in life. Some media pundit caught up on it, and chastised him. But because of the media stupor, such issues were swept under the rugs, made them very insignificant, thus his current status.
As a law graduate from Harvard, he took pride for being the first African American to have garnered the editorship of the schools paper Harvard Law Review. He taught law in Columbia University. But in my research about him I found nothing to state he practiced law. All the while, he was channeling his energy in politics-related activities, as a community organizer and assisting in the voter’s registration during Bill Clinton’s candidacy, then, running for political office as State Senator in Illinois, then hopping to
Washington as US Senator for 2 years.
With a lean resume to show, it is no surprise that he is being called a freshman by his political colleagues.
Whatever phenomenon Obama is creating in the American political landscape, it is the people that should wake up from a seeming state of stupor and opiate; examine the guy that might have the power of hocus pocus or voodoo, as to cause perplexity among even the sane Americans.
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