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Let us hope that Barack Obama as the next President of USA , would export peace and good will , rather than war and destruction.

by Charles.S.Perera

In the long campaign for the Nomination of a Candidate from the Democratic Party for the election for the Presidential election of the USA in November,2008, the winner is the "American people ". Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton were just two candidates. And it is significant that the American people elected a candidate not because of colour or gender, but because it demonstrates Unity , to show the world that real democracy is still living and breathing in the USA to-day.

We look forward to the confirmation of this great show of undivided American Unity and its great democratic wisdom, in the final choice of the President of the USA in November this year. In selecting Barack Obama for the Presidential election, the Americans have shown that of the two candidates, the finally elected President should be either a Republican, or a Democratic, without distinction of colour, or creed.

This is a remarkable turn of events in America where the nation, apart from the ethnic American Indians, is made up of pioneers who left their homelands to begin a life, in the New World. In this exodus the Afro-Americans were the only community that did not migrate to America . They were "kidnapped" by slave traders, and forcibly transported in atrocious conditions, and sold like chattel into slavery.

Though Barack Obama's ancestors have no connection to these sad beginnings, he nevertheless, represents a great majority of Afro-Americans of such origin. Therefore the Afro-Americans are a more honourable community forcibly displaced, which today, with the ascension of Barack Obama into a privileged position in American politics, asserts its African origin, and vindicates the humiliation and the deprivation of its rightful place in the American Society.

American democrats' acceptance of Barack Obama, as a respectable American to be the next President of U.S.A , is a credit to the noble aspiration of the American people. Obama is by far the best to represent America any where in the world. He will be accepted by those who had been critical of the American leadership, as a positive contribution to the world shattered through terrorism, divided through religious, social, and economic disharmony, and suffering in poverty.

The world in turmoil today needs, the leadership of a nation which is economically and technologically rich to promote peace. The world does not want a militarily powerful America, but an America which is open to dialogue, an America which is generous, and ready to accept different political points of view, an America that would understand that the breeding ground of hatred, and discord among nations is the social and economic inequality, an America that will be able to coordinate the rich nations to develop the poor nations.

The problem of immigration, the developed countries are facing to-day is the result of non development of poor countries which are left to stagnate in poverty.

The world need an America that would take steps, in collaboration with the UNO, to ban the production and sale of arms and ammunitions, and use that money to develop the countries of the third world. This had been so far neglected by the rich Nations, as destruction and the division of the poor countries is a means to maintain power and leadership. No American President has attempted to export peace and goodwill, but used wealth and technology to promote war and destruction.

The world expects Barack Obama to change the "tradition" to bring peace to the world.

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