BARACK OBAMA, THE 44TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
Well it's true, a African American has been elected to serve as the 44th President of the United States of America, and you know maybe he won't be that bad after all.
We have seen Presidents, that have taken the Country to places that we don't want to go back to, I mean look at them, from Hoover, to Bush, and all those in between. The President has always been a global target. He has taken hits from every side, and still wants the job.
Take John F.Kennedy and his lovely family as he entered the White House and made it his home, he was brave, and young and tall and some say handsome, well now let us look at Barack Obama, Young, tall, a beautiful family man, with two precious children not to mention a beautiful wife that is also tall. He has made us dream, he has challenged us. When we say we can't the chant can be heard for miles "YES WE CAN". He has made this Country think, he has dreams, some of us share them, he will be a peoples President.
He was a Senator from the great State of Illinois, to be honest I never heard of him, I mean have you, with a name like Barack Obama, seems as if we all would have noticed him, but remember he was a senator and really only those die hard politic watchers may have noticed him.
When he announced he was running for President of the United States, people around the country wondered about this "BLACK" man that wanted to be President. Surely he was joking,
I mean, who would vote for a African American to be President?.
But when we look back at George W.Bush, and all that has happened in his administration and all the set backs and all the lies, why not elect a African American to become the first President of his race.
When you really get to know Barack, his mother was white and was from the middle of the heart of the United States, Kansas, his Father was from Kenya in Africa. He really never knew his father but he did spend time with him maybe 2 months are so.
His Father met and married his mother, while they both attended a University in Hawaii, his Mother was studying to become a archeologist, while his Father was in school also.
Barack was born and lived with his maternal grandparents in Hawaii, and his grandfather always told him, that he could be anyone he wanted because he was a American. He would never have dreamed that this young man would grow up to become President of the United States.
Let's get real, neither did his wife Michelle Obama, she just thought he would stay as a law student and make plenty of money and that was that. She has recieved a shock, she will now become the first lady of the White House.
This brings me to the night his acceptance speech, on November 5th, 2008, there he was at Grant Park in Chicago, where he had spent so much time, working with people that needed help.
Now the World was watching to hear what he had to say, we were not disappointed, as the more than 250,000 people of all colors and races, chanted "YES WE CAN", there were the young, and the old, the stars, and the politicians, all there to see the next changing of the guard. And to be honest, it brought back memories of when President John F.Kenndy and his wonderful wife came out to greet the cheering crowd. There is so much to compare with Kennedy and Obama.
Kennedy was for the working class and down and out people, so is Barack Obama.
Obama faces challenges that no one in their right mind would want, but then again that is why he is President and we are not.
Remember for 132 days, he will be in the grandest prison of all, the house called "The White House", where he will never again be able to take a walk on the streets of America, without a huge and vast security system put in place first. His every day will be awakened by challenges that we just read about, he will be sheltered and kept aware of dangers that are lurking to destroy our Country and that is why we voted for him, because we believe he was and will be the right man for the job.
His wife, Michelle will be guarded and his children will have their own security, so for them growing up will be a challenge, but then again not many children can say that their address is 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. When John F.Kennedy was President we seen little "John,John" and his sister Carolyne Kennedy grow up in the White House.
We also saw and felt the horror when their Father was assassinated in Dallas on a cold November day in 1963, were the Kennedy children ready for that, were they ready to lose a Father who loved them, as we look back, they had to grow up and that is what they did fast.
If you are as old as I am, you can still see "John" saluting, his Fathers casket as it passed by the White House, that was such a moving seen. I pray that Barack Obama's children never have to see that happen to their Father.
These will be tough times for President-elect Barack Obama and we all are praying for him, as he tries to lead this Country away from the wars and financial mess.
He may not have all the answers, but we know that he will be a great President, and I am backing him 100%, I hope you do also.
I do have one fear and that is that some radical group or deranged person will try and assassinate him, and that is something I would never want to happen to a man, that has character and charisma, that only he has.
So needless to say, the 44th and next President of the United States, Barack Obama, needs all the pray that this Country can give him, as he try's to help get America back to where we once were. a tower of honest, and every Country wanted to be like we were.
In closing, did you notice that when Barack Obama was named to become the next President of the United States, we heard nothing bad from foreign Country's and there was no burning of the American Flag. What does that tell you?. something is right don't you think?
Augustino Patti
Well it's true, a African American has been elected to serve as the 44th President of the United States of America, and you know maybe he won't be that bad after all.
We have seen Presidents, that have taken the Country to places that we don't want to go back to, I mean look at them, from Hoover, to Bush, and all those in between. The President has always been a global target. He has taken hits from every side, and still wants the job.
Take John F.Kennedy and his lovely family as he entered the White House and made it his home, he was brave, and young and tall and some say handsome, well now let us look at Barack Obama, Young, tall, a beautiful family man, with two precious children not to mention a beautiful wife that is also tall. He has made us dream, he has challenged us. When we say we can't the chant can be heard for miles "YES WE CAN". He has made this Country think, he has dreams, some of us share them, he will be a peoples President.
He was a Senator from the great State of Illinois, to be honest I never heard of him, I mean have you, with a name like Barack Obama, seems as if we all would have noticed him, but remember he was a senator and really only those die hard politic watchers may have noticed him.
When he announced he was running for President of the United States, people around the country wondered about this "BLACK" man that wanted to be President. Surely he was joking,
I mean, who would vote for a African American to be President?.
But when we look back at George W.Bush, and all that has happened in his administration and all the set backs and all the lies, why not elect a African American to become the first President of his race.
When you really get to know Barack, his mother was white and was from the middle of the heart of the United States, Kansas, his Father was from Kenya in Africa. He really never knew his father but he did spend time with him maybe 2 months are so.
His Father met and married his mother, while they both attended a University in Hawaii, his Mother was studying to become a archeologist, while his Father was in school also.
Barack was born and lived with his maternal grandparents in Hawaii, and his grandfather always told him, that he could be anyone he wanted because he was a American. He would never have dreamed that this young man would grow up to become President of the United States.
Let's get real, neither did his wife Michelle Obama, she just thought he would stay as a law student and make plenty of money and that was that. She has recieved a shock, she will now become the first lady of the White House.
This brings me to the night his acceptance speech, on November 5th, 2008, there he was at Grant Park in Chicago, where he had spent so much time, working with people that needed help.
Now the World was watching to hear what he had to say, we were not disappointed, as the more than 250,000 people of all colors and races, chanted "YES WE CAN", there were the young, and the old, the stars, and the politicians, all there to see the next changing of the guard. And to be honest, it brought back memories of when President John F.Kenndy and his wonderful wife came out to greet the cheering crowd. There is so much to compare with Kennedy and Obama.
Kennedy was for the working class and down and out people, so is Barack Obama.
Obama faces challenges that no one in their right mind would want, but then again that is why he is President and we are not.
Remember for 132 days, he will be in the grandest prison of all, the house called "The White House", where he will never again be able to take a walk on the streets of America, without a huge and vast security system put in place first. His every day will be awakened by challenges that we just read about, he will be sheltered and kept aware of dangers that are lurking to destroy our Country and that is why we voted for him, because we believe he was and will be the right man for the job.
His wife, Michelle will be guarded and his children will have their own security, so for them growing up will be a challenge, but then again not many children can say that their address is 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. When John F.Kennedy was President we seen little "John,John" and his sister Carolyne Kennedy grow up in the White House.
We also saw and felt the horror when their Father was assassinated in Dallas on a cold November day in 1963, were the Kennedy children ready for that, were they ready to lose a Father who loved them, as we look back, they had to grow up and that is what they did fast.
If you are as old as I am, you can still see "John" saluting, his Fathers casket as it passed by the White House, that was such a moving seen. I pray that Barack Obama's children never have to see that happen to their Father.
These will be tough times for President-elect Barack Obama and we all are praying for him, as he tries to lead this Country away from the wars and financial mess.
He may not have all the answers, but we know that he will be a great President, and I am backing him 100%, I hope you do also.
I do have one fear and that is that some radical group or deranged person will try and assassinate him, and that is something I would never want to happen to a man, that has character and charisma, that only he has.
So needless to say, the 44th and next President of the United States, Barack Obama, needs all the pray that this Country can give him, as he try's to help get America back to where we once were. a tower of honest, and every Country wanted to be like we were.
In closing, did you notice that when Barack Obama was named to become the next President of the United States, we heard nothing bad from foreign Country's and there was no burning of the American Flag. What does that tell you?. something is right don't you think?
Augustino Patti
