Cover Story from The Indicator no. 1
CAN OBAMA WIN
THE PRESIDENCY?
Editor's Note: This article was written and published three weeks before Oprah Winfrey's endorsement announcement and Obama's subsequent Iowa Caucus and primary election wins. In 2006 Oprah interviewed Obama and the two discussed the Law of Attraction principles and how he practices them in his daily life. One prescient comment in that interview was Oprah's encouragement that Obama seek higher office. Can Obama win the presidency? The Indicators are good!
On a political landscape more landmine than scape, a man enters the
presidential ring with a hope and a purpose that many believe hasn't been seen
since Kennedy ran back inpost-Eisenhower 1960. Shortly afterJohn Fitzgerald Kennedy assumed the highest
office in the world, a young black child was living in a world where rights were
reserved for others, and were anything but civil.
It was a world where a boy named
Barack Hussein Obama could never have dreamed of becoming a state senator much
less the president of the United States. But like then, these
are interesting times.
"That
we can say what we think, write what we think, without hearing a sudden knock
on the door; that is the America I believe in.
We can participate in the political process
without fear of
retribution and that our votes will he counted
- or at least, most of the time," he says with a sardonic grin (at the part about
the vote counting).
It
takes some serious Law of Attraction to navigate politics these days, a truism
that is not lost on Obama as he works sixteen to twenty-hour days preparing for
the race of a lifetime. He says he sets his disappointment in the last
two elections aside, and instead wishes to draw public attention to the power
of the vote, imploring that every eligible voter not apathetically waste his or
her vote by ignoring Election Day.
There
is just one other item that will spark an equal passion: The divisiveness that he
sees
as ignited by the opposition and fanned by the media.
"There is not a
liberal America and a
conservative America-―there is the United States of America," he
says. "There's not a black America and white America,
but the pundits like to slice-and-dice our country into Red
States for Republicans, Blue States
for Democrats. But I've got news for them. "We worship an awesome God in the
Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in
the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends
in the Red States. "There are patriots who oppose the war in Iraq and patriots who supported it.
We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes."
"I
talk about hope because I've seen its power. I'm a hope-monger." ― Barack Obama These heady words were first spoken by Obama at
the 2004 Democratic National Convention, and have all but officially become his
campaign mantra since his presidential race officially began.
Obama
believes the time is right for his kind of presidency, and he has publicly
stated his belief that through the Law of Attraction, if it is right, it will
happen. He is also very aware of the
political risk in openly claiming what is still considered a controversial
belief system ― especially during the opening salvos of such a high profile
political race. As he told Oprah Winfrey on a
recent show, "I am who I am and I won't hide or deny anything that has
been
such
a strong force in both my, and my wife's life." Law of Attraction aside, will Barack Obama
make a good president at such a critical point in our nation's history?
"You
know, people don't expect government to solve all their problems. But they
sense, deep in their bones, that with just a slight change in priorities, we
can make sure that every child in America has a decent shot at life,
and that the doors of opportunity remain open to all. They know we can do
better, and they want that choice."
"The true genius of America
is a faith in the simple dreams of its people, the insistence on small
miracles," he says with the earnestness of an eternal optimist, which by all accounts he is.
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