Change

Change

By Jonathan Morales

Before the evaluation process that I will try to make on the capacity of Barack Hussein Obama to be the President of the United States of America, we need to know who Mr. Obama is. Barack Obama, is the elected president of the USA, he was born in Honolulu, Hawaii -the first elected president that has born outside of the Continental States-. His parents are Ann Dunham and Barack Obama Sr... Mrs. Dunham is from Kansas and Mr. Obama Sr. is actually from Kenya. This may sound a little racist, though I will try to make it sound as neutral as possible, his mother is a white American and his father is an African. That makes elected-president Barack Obama a person that is rich on culture, rich on the problems of society and rich on the problems of the world. He lives in the United States, a place filled with the culture of other countries, where African-Americans and white-Americans co-exists among themselves – or actually tries to. The election of this cultural icon is actually the only right decision that the American people have made since the year 2000 -the election of the Republican president George Bush. There is nothing bad about the Republican Party; there have been a lot of presidents that were republicans that did great things like Abraham Lincoln. But the Democratic Party has a tradition when it comes to great presidents like George Cleveland, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson and Jimmy Carter, and we can only hope that Obama honors the greatness of all of the others Presidents of the United States.

Barack Obama comes with an agenda, and his agenda includes working with everyone to make a Change in America and in the whole world; he started this by appointing New York State Senator, Hillary Clinton to be the Secretary of State, prior to that they were running against each other to be the presidential candidate of the Democratic Party. Now Mrs. Clinton is the Chief of International Diplomacy in Obama’s cabinet. This is a way of telling everyone in the US and the World that the government of Barack Obama is going to be a government of union. One of the first things that the former Senator of Illinois has done since he was elected president is to try to establish a common ground to try and do the best for the country. He was at the White House with President Bush in a meeting where they established trust to work together in the transition of the government. In the primary, he established communications with other countries in the world. He came to Puerto Rico and promised a process of self determination, and when the Puerto Ricans know what they want to do, he will make the opinion of the Island count in Congress. He established “friendship” with the Republican Presidential candidate John McCain.

I got a lot of faith in Barack Obama, even though we in the Island can’t vote for the President of the United States and there are 50 states and other territories on the Union that have more priority over us. I know that there is an on-going war on terrorism in the world. I know that there are problems with the health system. I know that there is a problem in the petroleum industry. I know that there is Global Warming. I know that there are a lot of problems that come before the status of the Puerto Rico. I also know that the whole world is in a process of recession. But I believe that he is like us, a young African-American with 47 years of age that knows that there is a need of Change in the world and he will try to make it happen.