Obama’s win and the “era of race”
Jack Carter is a businessman and politician. He is the son of former United States President Jimmy Carter. It was a night that makes me proud to be an American and proud of all of my fellows who call...
Category: Politics
Yes We Can, and yes we did
Like many people across the globe I sat on the edge of my seat and watched the election results roll in. Though I have always felt that Obama is a centrist who will govern along that line, with the...
Joy from historic Obama campaign
Barack Obama will be the 44th President of the United States. To type those words brings back the euphoria of the first few minutes after the words flashed on the blurry screen of the projector...
Barack Obama makes history
"...What light through yonder window breaks?" The world is changing. Well, it is, in fact, always in a state of flux, but no more is it evident than on days like today. Before he died, Tupac Shakur...
Election 08: “High Anxiety”
Watching this election, electronically linked up to voters across the United States and beyond, is a surreal and beautiful experience. I wish I could tell you that it doesn't matter what the outcome...
The Road Most Travelled By – the unraveling of the GOP
In the final hours of this marathon election, all the polls are predicting an Obama victory. Whether this outcome is confirmed or not, the Republican party is in need of some serious soul-searching....
I can see the campaign finish line
Is it just me, or did this seem like the longest election campaign in the history of democracy? Seriously, the primaries seemed to take forever and a day to get through. Every single word a...
McCain the postmodern candidate
Tom Brokaw was on Charlie Rose the other day and he said that Barack Obama could be our first "postmodern" president. Brokaw admitted that the didn't know what postmodernism was, but whatever it was,...
If the Democrats win – then what?
“Be careful what you wish for, because you just might get it.” That adage holds true for Barack Obama and likely for many presidents before him. Is it going to hold true for the American public...
Obama’s final pitch
Franklin Delano Roosevelt famously said, “We have nothing to fear but fear itself.” Barack Obama’s biggest challenge as a candidate has been convincing people not to fear him, fear his...