Is the sudden emergence of Barack Obama the ‘fruit’ of a model democracy – or an aberration resulting from a capricious, unpredictable and more often than not – dangerous form of government?
Those are the central questions explored in this article by Daniel Samper Pizano, one of the most sharp-tongued and popular Colombian editorial writers.
“These days, it is repeated and stressed that Barack Hussein Obama’s rise to power is the fruit of a model democracy. I think it’s the fruit of literature. What’s more: Bad literature. The story of the new president of the United States could have been conceived only by a cruel novelist with an excessive imagination and without any rational sense of reality -and possibly drugged.”
After going through a short exposition of Obama’s almost inconceivable past, Pizano says in part:
“But none of this means that this historic episode constitutes proof of a model democracy. I am a committed democrat and admire a great many things about United States society, but if we marvel at the fact that a Black man will govern it, it’s because during the last two centuries, this same democracy has been a machine of racial discrimination and the enthronement of profit above all other values. We owe Lady Democracy for Obama, but also for the ineffable George W. Bush. The democracy that elected him and kept him – nepotistic, corrupt, warmongering, human rights violating, and incapable of controlling its own economic system – is the same one that today gives us Obama.”
By Daniel Samper Pizano
Translated By Liz Essary
January 21, 2009
Colombia – El Tiempo – Original Article (Spanish)
These days, it is repeated and stressed that Barack Hussein Obama’s rise to power is the fruit of a model democracy. I think it’s the fruit of literature. What’s more: Bad literature. The story of the new president of the United States could have been conceived only by a cruel novelist with an excessive imagination and without any rational sense of reality -and possibly drugged.
Read it over and you’ll see: A White girl from Kansas gets married, already pregnant by a Black man from Kenya; they have a boy and give him his father’s name – which has a Muslim flavor; soon later they separate; she gets a new husband – this time, Indonesian – and they set up house in Jakarta; little Obama turns out to be a bad student but a good athlete, so his mother sends him to Hawaii to stay with his White grandparents; and she divorces again. Finished high school, the young man ends up in Los Angeles, where, among other things, he picks up vices of the nose and mouth and discovers his social environment. From then on, his passion is ethnic work; he wins scholarships to excellent White American universities; he becomes the best student at Harvard Law and works in politics until the day the people choose this unlikely character with family and influences in Africa, Asia, and the United States as their president.
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