Obama train unstoppable

States Senator Barack Obama is not a Muslim and has never been one. Obama who is likely going to be the Democratic Party presidential nominee is being portrayed to be a Muslim just because his middle name is Hussein like his father Barack Hussein Obama Sr.
The manner is which the youthful Senator from the state of Illinois – the land of Lincoln – has created a movement and the way he is loved not only by the core Democratic Party members but majority of Americans in general is mesmerizing. Obama’s candidacy has become a phenomenon more unimaginable than the fall of the Berlin Wall or the fall of the communist Soviet Union.

Obama is correctly portrayed as the second John Fitzgerald Kennedy, or JFK to may people. It is not a mean achievement to be compared to let alone be portrayed as JFK in American politics.
The world richest democracy’s political arena has not seen so much interest displayed by its people in their political parties’ primaries in the recent memories the way they are seeing Obama bringing people from all walks of life, young, old, Black, White and Latino, rich and poor, men and women to the party primaries polls.

For instance, I attended Obama’s rally in the city of Wilmington (Delaware) last month where 20, 000 people showed up. It took me and fellow rally attendees almost two hours to queue and remain in line to go through a security check before entering the rally venue.
People queued for two hours in a blistering cold morning just to go see and hear this man preach politics of hope. The rally made to the history books as it became the biggest political rally in the history of the state of Delaware and I am happy to have been one of those history making attendees. Obama is currently filling stadia both in Texas and Ohio, the battleground for the coming Tuesday primaries.

If Obama is to win in the Tuesday’s primaries in Texas, Ohio, Rhode Island and Vermont he is likely going to be the presumptive DP presidential nominee. If there is any non-white who has a chance to become a US a president in our lifetime then that man is Obama.
No one thought that the DP primary will still be going on in February and that there will be no clear nominee because most political pundits thought Senator Hillary Clinton would have already clinched the nomination.

Obama is now fighting battles waged from three different fronts; the former First Lady Mrs Clinton for the DP nomination, another front waged by Senator John McCain the presumptive Republican Party nominee, and the third one from President George W Bush who is trying to assist McCain in preparing for battle with Obama for the presidency.
Let us hope that Americans have really woken up politically and will not be cheated ever again with the politics of fear that was the main rationale that saw re-election of President George W Bush.
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Omar Ahmed Ali
Sunday, March 02, 2008