Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Hail President Obama!

Yesterday was a historical day for USA as the 44th President was sworn in with a crowd of over 2 Million people.
The first ever african origin President has created much hope in the hearts of all citizens of USA and the whole world is watching what his international relations are going to be. As the American economy is having difficulties recovering its position and many a people left without jobs, the newly sworn in President has much responsibility to do greater effort to bring back all what has been in total crisis during last 12 - 24 months.
"We gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord," those were the words of the President. And he asked all Americans to "Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off and begin again the work of remaking America". He gave the new hope for his people, created the courage and urgency to act together to build a nation.
I think that our Sri Lankan politicians including the head of state have lot to learn out of the speech made by this new President. The courage he's creating, the hope and understanding to act on the need to build back a nation, should ring sirens on our politicians. Rather than pointing finger to eachother on things that'll never benefit the country or its people, our members of parliament should learn to work in hand in hand.
I heard that President Obama has a family of brothers. If President Obama was a politician and elected as president in "our country" would he create a cabinet of ministers with all his brothers?

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