Obama, bukan Osama

Obama, bukan Osama. Cakap cakap kedai kopi di sana meramalkan dia ada potensi jadi presiden negro pertama USA. Nama penuh, Barack Hussein Obama, dan dalam buku kedua yang dikarangnya, menegaskan beberapa perkara menarik mengenai Amerika. Apa kaitannya dengan dunia politik Malaysia? Banyak! Cuba perhatikan petikan dari bukunya dan gantikan perkataan yang merujuk kepada Amerika dengan Malaysia. Bayangkan beliau menulis mengenai politik Malaysia.

My argument, however, is that we have no choice. You don’t need a poll to know that the vast majority of Americans—Republican, Democrat, and independent—are weary of the dead zone that politics has become, in which narrow interests vie for advantage and ideological minorities seek to impose their own versions of absolute truth. Whether we’re from red states or blue states, we feel in our gut the lack of honesty, rigor, and common sense in our policy debates, and dislike what appears to be a continuous menu of false or cramped choices. Religious or secular, black, white, or brown, we sense—correctly—that the nation’s most significant challenges are being ignored, and that if we don’t change course soon, we may be the first generation in a very long time that leaves behind a weaker and more fractured America than the one we inherited. Perhaps more than any other time in our recent history, we need a new kind of politics, one that can excavate and build upon those shared understandings that pull us together as Americans

p.s. Tip tambahan untuk politikus dan calon poliitkus Malaysia. Obama ada Pejabat Online. Jangan hanya pandai retorika Cinta IT, Kita ada Koridor Raya, ada itu ini.