Barack Obama

We stand at the exact pengujung 2008. While still move forward, we have a good idea to habituate back and learn from it.

Let's Rename first year in 2008. Each naming a dates, either year, century, millennium or, of course, can not elude from simplification. What can be made, I want to name the year 2008, for reasons that I will dust later, as the "Year of Obama."

Husein Barack Obama victory in the United States Presidential Elections on 4 November 2008 is the victory pemimpi. "Being the U.S. president" is the dream that kept Obama since he is still early.

Not only that. That is also the victory of hard work. See Obama speak in front of around 150,000 in the supporting Grand Park Chicago that night, I believe that the dream is half goal, goal is half a plan, the plan is half of hard work, hard work and is half the success.

Obama to victory on the way through that is not easy. Part of the victory is the most stir when he will overcome other Democratic Party candidates, Hillary Clinton, the owner of "best political vehicle of 20th century." Obama mengalahkannya use the "best political vehicle 21st century," wrote The Atlantic (December 2007).

Basis Obama's political vehicle, outside the Democratic Party, is the millions of ordinary people. Around 750 million U.S. dollars can be collected Obama campaign team and more than half are "recehan money" collected from ordinary people who feel are shouting, "Yes, we can!", On the back of Obama.

Obama campaign, under the leadership of David Axelrod have hands cold, organized by millions of volunteers in the entire country. Most of them are young people who feel in life to seize the future better.

In the edition of Time magazine "Person of the Year" (29 December 2008-5 January 2009) mentions three key behind victory Obama: fixed focus, stay calm and organized. With this is the key, not simply to become President of United States of color first, Obama opened a new page history of the United States.

The first page of the history of the new United States itself has actually opened soon after the September 11 tragedy in 2001. However, George W Bush not to write the prologue too fun to remember. Obama potentially play an important role because of the tone and word choice in the new tuturan history.

Apart that in issues such as the classic Israeli-Palestinian conflict it is not much different with the other American politicians in general, Obama offers the United States with different tastes. Jobs program substitution of environmentally friendly energy, for example, feels relieve. As a relatively young age of politicians, he offers hope as well as new possibilities.

Do not be a meeting. I do not want to praise America or Obama. I just want to underscore how the values in the Obama phenomenon is a cross-country or geographical boundaries. Values is a valuable lesson for everyone, including us.

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It's good we pinch in 2009 with the full awareness that as a "democracy elektoral"-who devote themselves to organize elections in the various level-Indonesia is a democracy so that developed and busy. However, the rush of democracy elektoral this proves just how broadest freedom, competition, and participation.

Do not rush it and prove that we have been successful representation of practice, accountability, and mandate. Democracy we are still far tertatih-tatih pursue the goal of democracy: justice and public welfare.

In the framework that we can habituate Obama phenomenon. What is offered Obama phenomenon is something that is missing in Indonesia and we are long: a new generation of politicians, the youth harmonize border with maturity, based pemenangan political involvement of the people, political, locality-based, with the political substance, hope that is not empty, the update that is not jargon simply stop, and political opportunities that opened for the pemimpi who want to work hard.

Of course, once again, mentions 2008 as the "Year of Obama" is a simplification. There are many colors and other phenomena that we sua throughout the year. However, sometimes, for the purposes of the positive, as well as a simplification of learning (from a far country even) we need.

Readers, happy New Year! Let us rebut tomorrow a better day than this!