In WORLDMEETS.US’ first translation from Latin America on Obama’s historic victory last evening, Silvina Heguy of Argentina’s Los Andes describes his final victory over Hillary Clinton this way:
“Obama convinced Democratic voters that change was possible – and a lot better than the experience touted by his rival Hillary Clinton – for a country that is slowly falling into a recession that clouds the future with despair.”
But highlighting what may come to be Obama’s Achilles’ heel, Heguy writes:
“They say that the reason he buried the anger of his past in the pages of his autobiography, in which he relates the story of his drug use, was so that no one would use it against him as an obstacle in the path toward his dream of being the first Black U.S. president.”
If that’s what Obama had in mind, one has to wonder whether or not it will work …
By Silvina Heguy
Translated By Miguel Guttierez
June 4, 2008
Argentina – Los Andes – Original Article (Spanish)
It took Barack Obama five months to defeat Hillary Clinton and enter history as the first Black nominee for President of the United States. He did so with a political lineage that in his words puts him alongside, “the president who chose the Moon as the next frontier.”
Evoking the memory of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, two of the most legendary figures in United States politics, Obama convinced Democratic voters that change was possible – and a lot better than the experience touted by his rival Hillary Clinton – for a country that is slowly falling into a recession that clouds the future with despair.
It was with the simple phrase “Yes, we can” during a speech last January that the 46-year-old politician first acquired the title “charismatic speaker” and “political phenomenon.” During the months that elapsed until yesterday, the graduate of Harvard and Columbia showed that he had all the qualifications necessary to survive the fiercest intra-party attacks.
In those five months, “the Obama phenomenon” has infected normally apathetic young people on university campuses with a desire to engage in politics. It has been a shock that has reached all the way to a remote village in Kenya. There, Obama’s grandmother “Mama Sarah” has became one of the most sought-after people by the press.
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