Opinion
The color of America
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The president of the United States should be chosen because of his political views and Barack Obama is no exception.
With just about two million spectators viewing Obama’s inauguration, he quickly caught the nation’s interest in this troubling time.
Obama won the election through careful planning, great initiative and mind-blowing speeches.
Having an African American president is a great feat for America but it is over-rated. Having an African American president doesn’t get a country out of a recession. A good president is a good president no matter what ethnic background they come from. Students want fair gas prices, a stable stock market and to go to college at an affordable price. Obama will do all that he can to help the people in this time but it’s not due to the fact that he’s African-American; it will be because he passes laws, makes sure those laws are enforced and follows through with those laws.
Obama will bring change-much needed change- into this time of troubling economic status with inflation and unemployment rising. He is relatively young but he’ll do whatever it takes and citizens just need to be patient.
Barack Hussein Obama is part African-American and this fact is why some people voted for him. This is ignorant. Citizens should want a president who is capable of maintaining and even building the country to higher extent. This can be done by a person of any ethnicity: Mexican, Chinese, Japanese, African-American- but the important thing is that the men or women in office can do these things.
Obama can do all these things and many more; not because he’s black, but because he believes in the people. He wants to help and sees a better United States of America.
Obama did not campaign for being black. He stood for more important things besides ethnicity such as economic status, abortion, immigration, war and many other top issues. Not once in his campaigns did he say being African-American made him a good president. Now more than ever citizens need to be confident of who is elected to office; not only president but also governors, senators and even school board members.
There are people of many backgrounds all doing great things for this amazing country. Obama will be an amazing president who hopefully accomplishes many things during his time in office but it will not be due to the fact that he is African-American, but because he knows what needs to happen in order to fix many problems, and he will do everything in his power to get the united states of America out of this recession.
Very well written editorial; one of the best I have ever read.