Reply #30: Why?

[kentuck]

I thought his speech was unifying and in sharp contrast to the divisiveness we had experienced for so long. It was like a breath of fresh air at the time. People, in the final analysis, prefer to be united, rather than divided. I think this may be his greatest strength. There is somehow a synchronicity about a leader in America named Barack Hussein Obama that appears on the scene at the same time we are experiencing such a disaster in the part of the world where that name may be more common. Somewhere in that part of the world, I imagine someone reading about an American running for President named Obama and it must give him a glimmer of hope...