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Billary vs. the Republicans or a New Conversation for a New Century
January 27, 2008
Please read Frank Rich's NY Times op-ed titled "The Billary Road to Republican Victory."
It highlights one of the key reasons why I support Barack Obama as the nominee and the next president: the national political conversation will be different. We can't promise that the 'new kind of politics' that Obama promotes will be realized 100%, but it will surely be more constructive and less divisive than another "Republicans hating on the Clintons" election.
It's 2008, the first real election in this new century, and while it may be true that we don't yet know as many specifics about what the Obama administration is going to on day 1, we still have 11 months from now when he and his cabinet take office. And we can be sure that the conversation, both within the US and internationally, will be transformed.
I am writing from Helsinki, Finland, and was talking with a Nigerian taxi driver the other night and he spoke about how an Obama victory would change the way that people across the world think about black people because we would all be watching the global conversation with new eyes and new ears.
I know that there is a risk, but with another Clinton in the white house, it will be the same old conversation that turns off most of the United States population (especially all of us young people) and most of the world.
Posted by Colin at January 27, 2008 6:29 PM
