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Obama On The Move
by Bill Curtis
The Obama political meteor is a metaphor overarching the near 40 years since the death of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968. The question is whether the Obama candidacy can overarch the tendency of politicos to tell people what they want to hear instead of what they need to know. Although he is no John F. Kennedy, he is so JFK, a President who inspired Americans with hope for the good a government can do for its people.
Just as the young, vibrant and handsome JFK burst on the national scene, overshadowing old guard politicos like
President Eisenhower with his luke-warm cautious attitude toward economic injustice and apartheid (segregation), the spectrum of Obama rises like a ray of sunlight giving hope to the idea that the federal government just might (possibly?) serve the people again.
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In the 1950s and into the 60s, Black people marched like disciplined Zulu regiments against a Roman phalanx of legal segregation, illogical laws and contradictions in the American way of life and economy, demanding immediate, not gradual, change in the American mindspace. With a relentless undercurrent of discontent rumbling against the status quo, JFK won the Democratic nomination in 1960.
The daughters of mothers who worked the plants during World War II came of age, elevating the self-awareness of women to new heights. Internationally, the Russians were calling America out on its maze of segregation laws, an embarrassing contradiction for any democracy, and around the globe a seismic shift occurred in world consciousness as former colonies fought for independence from Britain, France, Belgium, Portugal and other resource thieves. In 2007, roughly twenty-five years after Rev. Jesse Jackson jump-started American democracy in the 1980s with his two runs for President, Barack Obama steps coolly onto the American stage.A beautiful enigma
Obama, a beautiful enigma in American politics, is an enigma the nation craves for. Like JFK, Obama presents a fresh face, fresh ideas and a refreshing opportunity
for American voters to exhale a sigh of relief from politics-as-usual. That sigh of relief, more like a strong wind blowing across the plains, gives voters of every political hue pause to hope that, perhaps, Obama can win, then steer the ship of state away from the bushes and those murky waters of questionable integrity sloshing around the White House like a putrid medieval castle entrapped by a foul-smelling moat. [continues on page Obama 2] 
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