Obama's tryst with destiny at
Senator Obama is no longer the "presumptive" nominee of his party for the highest office in the land. After affirmation by proclamation, he facilely won the nomination; there weren't any fight from any rival faction. This happened on the third night (August 27, 2008). The jubilant candidate for White House made a surprise appearance before delegates in the Pepsi Center (an indoor sports arena) when he invited everyone to get ticket for Invesco Field (an outdoor sports arena) where he gave a historic acceptance speech before 84,000 Americans.
The famous speech had spellbound not only the delegates and attendees at the venue but many newscasters, political talking heads and pundits such as David Gergen, John King, etc., had opined that it was truly a historic speech by any measure.
Senator Obama had re-introduced himself to Americans through this speech, which lasted about 50 minutes. It was a defining moment for Obama, son of a Kenyan and a Midwestern woman. Through the acceptance speech, he rebutted quite a few allegations leveled by the McCain campaign. The issue of Obama's inexperience for the highest job in the land, lack of foreign policy experience, the celebrity-like status, etc, and more were answered by Obama to dispel any doubts about his qualification to become the commander-in-chief or for that matter, taking the emergency call at 3:00 am.
Obama spoke eloquently before the crowd and national audiences through the airwaves. He looked quite dignified and presidential; not to mention his utmost confidence in him. The speech was a reminiscence of the one given about 40 years ago by Reverend martin Luther King Jr. at
Most political observers in
In a true sense destiny had brought Obama to national politics. As a fresh lawyer just graduated from Harvard he joined a movement to rehabilitate displaced workers in the late 1980s in south side of Chicago. Stunned by his capability to organize movement many, Illinois people asked him to join the state politics. He however took time out to teach constitutional law at the University of Chicago and in late 1990s he immersed in the state politics to find himself elected to the state legislature. Springfield, the capital of Illinois is located in the middle of cornfield, became his home for few years when he learned and honed the art of persuasion quite well.
In 2004, during the Democratic convention at Boston where Senator Kerry was nominated to run against George Bush, the party selected an unknown legislator from Springfield, Illinois to give the keynote speech. His name was a strange one and no one was familiar with him. Nonetheless, he gave an electrifying speech. After which he became right away a star in the Democratic Party. Obama ran for the senate seat from Illinois and was elected in November 2004.
As a young senator he quickly learned that
Obama's political future took a quantum leap in 2007 when to the surprise of many he announced that he would run in the primaries that was already crowded with nationally known Democrats. Many political pundits had pooh-poohed him for becoming that ambitious being merely a political neophyte. Come to think of it, I don't think that it hardly crossed Senator Hillary Clinton's mind that this obscure and junior legislator from
In actuality, the farmers and most ordinary people of
The events of last few weeks did not bode well for Obama campaign. And thanks to John McCain's negative campaign. Consequently, Senator Obama came to
Finally, the last week of August arrived and Democrats assembled in
All attentions of the media were on Democratic convention, which ran very smoothly. Some political talking heads and a few Republican operatives thought the convention would be mired in utter chaos and floor fight a la 1968 convention held in
The Democrats did not wish for a return of 1968-like convention. Rather they wanted a unified front to energize the campaign this year. The
In a way, Senator Barack Obama had a tryst with destiny in
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Dr. A.H. Jaffor Ullah, a researcher and columnist, writes from
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