This man move and inspires me and my belief in leadership.
In fact I don’t think it’s Obama that moves me, I think it is his supporters who move me. They are united, unified and joined by the desire to make their nation a better place. They are not united against Bush (that is negative action), they are united in favour of the better candidate who they believe can change their situation and better their country in the face of two decades of destruction from two families (Clinton and Bush) of power.
But tell me, who is this person in SA? I have asked this before and will continue to ask until that person rouses themselves from slumber and takes on the future of this nation. Who is going to let me support them with everything I have? With my heart, with my head, my soul, my belief, with everything?
The video above and the one to follow inspire me to want to gather up everyone I can and make an inspirational video for SA. But who for? Who are we supporting?
Helen Zille is the opposition, not the first choice. She isn’t really even a suitable opposition representing our future, not in my opinion. She is simply the opposition. She is not a leader who can challenge Zuma, Mbeki or anyone else.
I am purely speaking now about candidates, individuals, people who can move me to take a stand. It’s hard work standing alone but not if you are standing for and behind someone you know in your heart can make a change. Mandela was that person but his legacy is over and his dreams are being overshadowed by others who are seemingly misled. We need change and we need a catalyst.
Who is this leader to be?
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March 15th, 2008 at 6:24 am
Obama is an absolutely fabulous and hypnotising speaker and a man with so much charm and attractiveness.
However I dont trust him, and I dont think the majority of the US will trust him either. McCain hopefully will win, and I honestly think he will win. Obama talks of change, but what is he going to do??, what are his policies??, what does he want to achieve??
The US is at war, a war on terror whether they, or the rest of the world like it or not. Al Queda will attemp to strike America again, Obama doesnt have what it takes to be the president of the most powerful nation in the world during a war.
Unfortunately now is not the time for this man. P.S the USA dont need a change as much as south africa, and I agree that there is no one really in SA that has that charisma, leadership and inspiration to challenge Zuma/Mbeki
March 15th, 2008 at 9:37 am
marc – I couldn’t actually disagree with you more. Mccain? Are you nuts? You want another 2 terms of the Bush regime? that’s madness. McCain is nothing but another version of Bush. He’s going to sink the USA in to more debt (3 trillion already or something like that).
The USA is getting what has been coming to them, there is no war on terrorism, that is Bush’s way of justifying his invasion and illegal occupation of Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and any other nation with oil that Bush can take from others.
I would rather have hope (Obama) than destruction (McCain/Bush).
March 16th, 2008 at 1:50 am
Fair enough Nic, However I think there is a war on terrorism happening at present, And it is only being fought by the USA. The fact is Al Queda and Islamic extremists hate america’s guts and want to wipe them off the map, well thats what i think. Obama will wipe america’s debt??, he wants to nationalise health care, etc that will increase debt. McCain want to decrease spending by the govt. (ok i know how expensive the war is)and all that jazz.
Also, it want only bush that decided to go into iraq.
Most of the senate voted to go into Iraq, Clinton, McCain, Bush. And The US had to go into Afganistan to try to catch whats his face..(Osama Bin Laden). With the intelligence the US had (from CIA, Britain) surely they had to go into Iraq and cripple Sadam Hussein who was killing hundreds of innocent Iraq civilians.
March 18th, 2008 at 9:46 am
I am with you on this one, Nic (sorry Marc). It is time for change, as Obama would say. For far too long has Bush kept the wool over the world’s eyes with this fallacy about War on Terrosrism. One terrorist is another’s freedom fighter. I remember so clearly a couple of years ago how the local media would report the destruction of terrorists and their bases in Angola and Namibia – and now we find those porported terrorist as liberators of people caught up in a draconic regime. No, I believe it is conservatist who ruin the world with their archaic and intollerant views. I find Bush and his propaganda equally fundamentalistic and extreme as what porported Islamic militants are accused of. If any, Bush had justification going after Bin Laden, but what escalated from their was pure madness and malice – all for his own secret and personal agenda. I believe Bush’s legacy will wilt in the presence of the energetic new democratic dispensation coming to America. I strongly believe the Democrats will win and as history showed when they do, we will al be better off. America is the target they are because of their policy of interference.
August 21st, 2010 at 5:18 am
None of that is going to happen, therefore the two sides are never going to stop fighting unless and until one of them is forced to do so. Period, end of sentence, end of paragraph, end of story. They have, as we say in the law, “irreconcilable differences.” Unfortunately, they cannot divorce nor divest, which is usually the remedy for same. So this will go on. Forever. It’s not going to stop. Ever.