Google CEO for Obama

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1. Brian Gondo on October 22nd, 2008 11:18 am

   Of course GOOG is neutral but we all know everyone at that company will vote for O. What could be more symbolic of the transformational change that Barack will bring to the US than to have the CEO of a company that represents the new dynamic face of American capitalism stumping for him.

   The beauty about the US political system is that because the bureaucracy is well built it can function fairly well even with bad leadership but it can’t do that forever. This is why after 8 years of bad leadership and another 8 of slightly above average leadership from Clinton the US needs to be rejuvenated.

   I’m not sure Obama will deliver but certainly the promise, potential and desire to provide great leadership is there, and judging by how he has run his campaign there are encouraging signs that he is a highly talented and competent leader. There are many good things to like about O. One is the manner he is reaching out to ALL American voters not just traditional Democrats or Democratic states.

   America needs inclusive politics and for too long it has been hampered by partisan rancour. Notice how O on his world tour earlier this year he had a Republican senator on his team. Now Colin Powell (a Republican) has endorsed him and the more you look at his operational nouse you realise the guy has a bigger agenda than the narrow politics of the past.

   I’m not American but I think the election of Barack to the US presidency will provide the US with an opportunity to rise above itself and will send an important message to the rest of the world. Here’s hoping O wins but my bigger desire is that his presidency helps the US to ‘perfect itself’. Just tell that to ‘Joe the Plumber’.

2. rmupfudza on October 22nd, 2008 12:29 pm

   Would a white man, come onto the political scene, full of vigour and promising change, in contemporary Africa, Zim in particular? America is land full of contradictions, inescapable given its vastness; the Mayflower and slave ship; the rise of settler pioneer families against all odds, taming the wilderness and the genocide of Native Americans; the rise of an Abraham Lincoln, the thriving of an Al Capone….

   The promise embodied in the Statue of Liberty, itself a monument to the freeing of slaves… the American dream, born out of a commitment that all men are born equal, penned by men who owned slaves whom they did not see as human beings, nor did they see as women equals at all…

   Yet despite all this, and what they continue to go through, and what their foreign policies make many endure, it is only in America that an O can achieve as much as this…

   O ’s phenomenal success thus far captures that almost mythological conception of America has of itself, which is enshrined in the American Dream promise and harks to an America of purity and innocence…which reality and practice, alas, has tended to undermine…which lurks just beneath the surface of the McCain slurs….

   The African- American poet Michael Harper has a poem in which one of the lines runs something to the effect of “America needs a killing, so that ots children can be free” Metaphorical poetic talk really, for a purging of American sins, so that a better America can be born…

   So, yes, as Brian put it: “Here’s hoping O wins but my bigger desire is that his presidency helps the US to ‘perfect itself’. Just tell that to ‘Joe the Plumber’.”

3. fungaijames on October 22nd, 2008 12:59 pm

   I read an article once, way back when Obama was exchanging political blows with Hillary Clinton, about how the image of a young dapper Obama stepping off Air Force One, waving happily away, would create a feel good effect that would resonate way beyond the land of stars and stripes.

   I hope that’s true cause one sworn enemy of America was quoted on CNN once as saying that any American president is an enemy of his. For him and many who have borne the brunt of America’s foreign policy in the last eight years that feel good factor is badly needed RIGHT NOW.

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