Barack Husein Obama was accosted this week by a plumber - Joe - that wants to start a business. Joe feels that Obama tax plans - which aims to cut taxes for the poor and tax richer Americans more - is bad for him and bad for entrepreneurial America.
Obama’s response is fantastic. He engages Joe, is truthful, knowledgeable and charming. In short he is authentic. Obama is a political super star.
Kameraad Mhambi is a Obama man!
Do check this video where Obama explains where he is from. Planet Krypton! And he got his middle name from somebody who thought he’d never run for American president.
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1 David Ansara
// Oct 18, 2008 at 4:40 am
There have been revelations about Joe’ status as a plumber and it turns out he isn’t actually registered or qualified to be a professional pipe man.
Notwithstanding that, I think Joe’s questions were well measured and he tackled Obama on an issue of public policy rather than a cultural difference. It didn’t matter that one was Ivy League and the other coaches Little League, the fact is that they were two men discussing in an honest and sincere way about how best to govern.
For a country with such a deep history of racial exploitation this is a remarkable feat. You really have to take a step back and reflect on what this means for the state of America at the moment. This little interaction is a jab in the face of racists everywhere. The knock-out punch is coming 4th November.
2 Michael Graaf
// Oct 18, 2008 at 3:33 pm
An even more convincing demonstration that the US “mainstream” is moving on from crude racism is the fact that Oprah is the richest woman in that country, on the strength of her public persona.
Actually Obama w0uldn’t be where he is without her endorsement (and she probablymade him some fat c ampaign donations); however let’s not forget that both of them are largely media creations, that the media are very elite-owned, and that it suits the interests of that elite to soothe racial tensions for the sake of business as usual.
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