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Now What?
By Robert Thomason
The people have spoken. The 2008 election is history. The American people have elected a "man of color", Barack Obama, as their President. Forty eight years ago people were shocked at the election of our first Catholic President. Now another barrier is broken. Many believed that the United States was too much of a racially biased country to elect a black person as President. Yet, here we are with a black President whose roots go deep into Africa. This sets him apart from other American black politicians. He can actually return to his home village in the "old country", and visit his large extended family. Most American blacks cannot do this because the slave system mixed the various tribes that were brought to this country. Not to mention the occasional "white man in the woodpile." In many ways, the United States is a mixed race country and the new President is representative of that. Almost 90% of American blacks are mixed race people, and 40% of white people are mixed. Tiger Woods and Barack Obama are not really all that unusal in American society today. Now that the color barrier has been broken, where do we go from here in terms of government policy? The template for the incoming administration appears to be following the traditional policies of past Democratic administrations. Big government spending programs, with higher taxes for our most productive citizens. In essence, the New Deal and the Great Society. A shift in the war on terrorism from military action to a criminal justice approach a la the Clinton administration. A new element is the political background of the new President who comes from a large urban area and his many ties to the political machine that runs Chicago. Every new President brings the political assets or bagage of his previous associations and experience. Washington, D.C., has its own political culture and many Presidents stumble over the differences between their home state political culture and Washington. Chicago politics may not work well in the nation's capital. I think Bush and Clinton found that things were far different in Washington than what they were accustomed to in Texas and Arkansas. The Republicans suffered a huge setback on election day, and it may take several election cycles to recover. Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney are probably out now getting their 2012 campaigns organized. Sarah Palin is the choice of many Republicans to be the candidate in 2012. Bobby Jindal, the governor of Louisiana, is also mentioned. It is too early to know which Republican will take on this task. Many in the Republican Party believe that the next four years will be Jimmy Carter's second term. Maybe so, but the one key element missing for the Republican revival in 2012 is that there is no Reagan waiting in the wings. This could very well indicate eight years for Obama, not four. Whatever occurs, the American people always get the government they elect. For better or worse. |
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