I’ve been too busy these days with classes opening very soon now and I’ve been serving our college in the enrolment processing.
But I was always deep into the news most of the time and wasn’t one to miss one eventful episode in American history and world history for that matter. Senator Barack Obama has finally garnered official nomination of the Democratic Party, after a very tedious and drawn-out race against early front-runner Senator Hillary Clinton.
It’s the closest primary race in decades and I have a feeling that it could be more memorable than the succeeding 2008 U.S. Presidential race that has just got started, whether or not Sen. Obama would win it against handsdown Republican candidate Senator John McCain.
The issue that is pressing now is whether Sen. Clinton would agree to become Sen. Obama’s running mate specially that the members of teh Democratic Party in America had become so divided that if the animosity amongst them would remain as heightened as it is right now, then their party should just forget about the White House come November.
By the way, there’s this Senator Obama picture that I had downloaded some months ago and had wanted to use it in one of my earlier postings but hadn’t been able for some reason. But now I am reminded about it and would definitely use it now. This picture shows Senator Obama and his wife, along with their daughter, standing before a crowd, waving and smiling so widely. I just thought then how perfect the picture could be if Sen. Obama would be the one to win the democratic primary as the joyous aura in that picture evokes great feeling of celebration and gloriousness, like it’s one moment in American history that should be captured and be told and retold for years and decades to come, like the hill scene in Iwojima or the Philadelphia declaration of independence.
That joyous moment could now be more glorious as Senator Barck Obama becomes the first African-American to become a presidential nominee, just about fifty years after the African-Americans have gained and were allowed civil rights in America. Truly historic and glorious.
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