Die Erwartungen an den 44. Präsidenten der Vereinigten Staaten sind groß. Barack Obama verkörpert in vielerlei Hinsicht einen Wandel in den USA. Doch welchen Spielraum wird er tatsächlich haben, die ihm in Anbetracht der weltweiter Finanzkrise und einer drohenden Weltrezession sowie den Kriegen in Afganistan und im Irak bleiben?

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Vielen Dank

Gunter Klötzer

Obama hat viel geredet, grosse Worte.. smooth Talker .. keine Frage ... guter Medienkommunika tor ... JEDOCH gilt es abzuwarten was der gute Mann denn nun tut bzw. umsetzt zum Wohle der USA!

Unfortunately, Obama will face extreme difficulty in solving problems he will inherit, most of which I believe are the result of this Bush administration, and I believe Senator McCain would have been more of the same, and if Palin would have had to have stepped in - disaster.

On the other hand, I have no illusions about Obama being a mere mortal, taking on tasks required of a superman. But he is a very competent, cautious, extremely intelligent man with “both feet on the ground”. His accomplishments to date are remarkable, and if he runs the country as he did his campaign, we may see light at the end of this first four year tunnel.

My enthusiasm and great joy, however, is based on my feeling that a tremendous veil of ugliness, if you will, a terrible part of our history has been made less so - I can now salute our flag with the knowledge that the great suffering that was put upon the black people from slavery on - this horrendous chapter in our history - well, the page can be turned and that chapter can actually become history, and I believe every Black American can now have good reason to believe they are actually looked at as full citizens of this country.

My perspective may be different, or at least the strength of my emotion in this is formed from being an eye witness to the injustice brought upon the black population here, and the pain I felt in bearing that witness. In our isolated, German immigrant farming community, we never experienced, neither in word nor deed, discrimination against the black community. We experienced it in every form of media, and read it in our history books - but when I was drafted into the military at the age of 19, I first heard personally fellow soldiers being called (and is shudder even to write the word) "nigger”. I saw a world first hand for the first time that was ugly. I felt the red, white and blue did not include black, at a time when black soldiers were serving and dying in Vietnam, in inordinate numbers vis a vis their population; and those who survived and returned to the United States, were not given the democratic rights by their own country - those rights so many had fought and died for in Vietnam.

When it was announced that Obama won, I raised the US flag at midnight, because a new chapter will be written now in our history. There will be change, It may not be the amount of change we need in Washington, but there is already a change in the hearts of millions of Americans, knowing the idea that you can be anything you want to be in this country, now applies to all Americans. This is the victory that I celebrate.

Today I hear Senator Liebermann will keep his seat, despite his great and vociferous and often unkind (to put it mildly) opposition to Senator Obama. Most of his staff it appears will be former Clinton people, and Senator Clinton is being discussed as the most serious prospect for Secretary of State. I wonder now if there change he was elected on will really come about.

Viele Gruesse,
Bernard "Ben" Buecker

Na ja, besser als Bush isser auf jeden Fall. Immerhin intelligenter. Nur: Steuererleichte rungen, so wie er sich das vorstellt, werden kaum moeglich sein. Jeder Willy hier will einen bailout, zwei Kriege werden gefuehrt, wo soll denn die Kohle herkommen? Solange wie China noch treasury bills kauft, laeuft die Karre weiter...nur, was passiert wenn China und der Rest der Welt mal Bares sehen wollen? Die USA koennten es nicht bezahlen, und der Staatsbuerger muesste es finanzieren, Problem ist nur das er es nicht kann. Folge: Der Dollar faellt und faellt und faellt, damit steht Amerika zum Ausverkauf!!! Amerik a ist nicht mehr das was es einmal war, und wird es nie wieder sein.

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