I usually don’t get really interested in US or any other country’s politics as I live in Mexico, but last night, when I got home at about 10:0o pm ( it was month-end close for us accountants) I saw Barak Obama’s speech. That speech was one of the best I’ve seen from a politician in years, as it was very inspiring and electrifying. I can see that Obama was talking with his heart, I wish our mexican politicians could speak with that clarity and convinced about what they are saying.
If this guy inspired a foreigner like me, I can’t imagine the impact this speech had on several american citizens.
Before that speech I didn’t have any idea about who that man was, but I felt in that speech a light of hope abut a future without fear. All I’ve seen on the news for the last several years is fear, war and uncertainity. You can feel this fear everywhere, specially at airports in several countries.
I don’t know if this guy Obama is a good candidate or not, that is something that only American voters will decide, maybe he is just a guy that knows how to say nice words, but this speech makes me say something for American voters. You guys have in your hands a great responsibility as you have the power of changing not only the future of your country but for the entire world.
I hope that whatever candidate you finally elect brings a bright future for your country, as the success of the US is a good thing for the rest of the world.
Here is Obama’s speech
Héctor Sánchez is a blogger from Ocotlán, Jalisco and he is currently residing in Guadalajara. Héctor is a Public Accountant from Universdidad Panamericana with a Posgrade in Corporate Finance from the same university, and he is currently working as financial analyst for Hewlett Packard. Even though he works in Finance for a living, in his spare time, he is a geek and he likes to build blogs, websites and studies everything related with Internet Marketing and several ways of building businesses online. He is also an active member of Toastmasters, where is the President in turn of his local club, Toastmasters Atlas Chapalita Club.
That was superb! obama 08!
Hola Hector. Let me complement your impeccable English. I am one of the 45% of Latinos that voted for Obama. I cannot understand the 55% rest (like Republicans ever, ever, ever did, do or will do anything of benefit for Hispanics, in the US, Latin America, or the world for this matter).
I agree with you in Obama’s speech, and in the quality of Obama as motivator. I think he is extremely talented; and his momentum as of 9Nov08 is huge; with momentum alone, a lot of positive corrections can be done, to start. I also want you to accompany me in praying for Obama to be let govern and not forced to continue in the world-conflagration path that these sick Bush(s)-posse propose and which you sense, and most of the world sense it too, is in the air.
My reasoning is that since Barack never committed himself to other than “humanitarian assessment of the immigrants dilemma” after taking care of the major problems he will find a restoration of equality in treatment to all of us producing for the USA, included us Hispanics. Although seeing no Latino around Obama so far, other than the magnificent New Mexico’s Bill Richardson even though we are the 16% of the population, I stock hope.
Right now, there is open-season for Spanish speakers in the US, by this Bush-AIPAC government; Hispanics are statistically banned from businesses executive positions, even supervisory positions; it is a backlash of NAFTA, as it’s blamed from the permeability of frontiers, to the loss of manufacturing jobs as well as US desindustrialization, by the business owners and elites of the US while pocketing change from peoples’ salaries shuffle. I know it because I witnessed from the late 1990s several methodical purges of Hispanics, from even so sorry positions as Network Admins being uncalled-for demoted by inter-connected employers (and please believe that I am being objective).
For the moment we are still simply exculpatory sacrificial lambs used as a diversion by the elite, while producing for the American soil. Since the 1930s. I hope Barack Obama will see that it is bias and not that none of those Hispanics since then to now, has been intelligent or educated or talented enough as to be proportionally influential in the US nation, while Normans have been given opportunities and done all over Latin America. In other words, let’s pray to have deserving Hispanics in the US government with Barack Obama the Great, while combating for it.
Hi Viejo Vizcacha, thanks a lot for leaving such a great comment on my post. I’m also praying for Barak Obama so that he can do a great job as president.
Analyzing the causes of Obama’s triumph of the recent elections, I guess that one of them is that even though he is African-American, he never leveraged his skin color to win the masses. Despite all the discrimination and slavery that African-American people suffered not so long ago, he never presented himself as a victim. He instead, presented himself as an American more, and more important as a winner. I’m sure that there is a new young generation in the U.S. that doesn’t care whether the president is black, white or whatever other ethinc group. They just see themselves as american citizens which is what they are.
I guess that Hispanics in the U.S. need to learn that from Barak Obama, they need to stop feeling as victims and try instead to feel more like American citizens than a minority ethinic group. Hispanics need to improve their english skills, keep going to Universities and try to climb the corporate and government latters but not as hispanics but as americans.
Had Obama used a speech that tried to favor only African-Americans, I’m sure that voters would’ve been polarized and most of white voters would’ve never voted for him. Maybe he was able to do that as he was raised in several places of the world.
I hope someday, there is a United States, where the ethnic group is not that important, I’d like to see the U.S. as a country where everone call themselves “american” and not hispanic, italian, chinese, black or whatever.
i have to do an analysis on obama's nobel peace prize acceptance speech, for school! oh my gosh im in grade 8! its is very confusing to me! first he goes on about how war will not solve anything, then later he contridicts himself by saying that sometimes violence and wars are needed to keep a country's government under control!!!! i do know that obama is a very smart man! i am not trying to deny that! all i am saying is that this speech is all over the place! it uses great examples to back uo all of his improtant points, but it does contridict itself and has many completely different topics! i <3 u obama!!!! i hope that u can live up to your expectations set by your speech:)
Thank you America !
Thank you America !