Jan 20 2009
Oh yes he can
Barack Obama won’t be my President. But most of my friends are American, and I rejoice in their joy. And as a Canadian I join with them — as most of the rest of the world and all people of decency and hope and spiritual and intellectual vigour join with them — in honouring the Inauguration of Obama as the 44th President of the United States of America.
I didn’t quite believe you still had it in you, you guys — but you did. You do. There is still hope for the glory to return to America. It will be a hard fight, but now I think the will and the spirit may still be there. You can do it.
So. Some books — by, about, and for — Barack Obama.
His own books: The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream. And Change We Can Believe In: Barack Obama’s Plan to Renew America’s Promise. And Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance.
The New York Times describes how books gave Obama his voice.
Richard A Muller has written a book about science: Physics for Future Presidents.
Children across the United States have contributed letters and memos of advice for the new president, published in the book, Thanks and Have Fun Running the Country: Kids’ Letters to President Obama.
There is also a new book of letters to Michelle Obama: Go, Tell Michelle: African American Women Write to the New First Lady.
And Barack Obama is going to be sworn in on the same Bible used by Abraham Lincoln at his own first Inauguration.
Have a great party everyone! And good fortune as you work to repair your country over the next four years. We’ll all work with you. Because in so many ways, Barack Obama is our President too.
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I think there’s really hope for that now. I had begun to think the great democratic experiment was dead, down south. But it may have pulled back from the brink. Fingers crossed!
Hopefully obama can be one of the great U.S President