Barack Obama and the black phoenix
By Okey Ndibe
Audacity could easily become the middle name of Senator Barack Hussein
Obama, the 47-year-old junior senator from the State of Illinois who is
on the verge of becoming America’s first black president, and one of
its youngest, most eloquent and intellectually vibrant. And audacity is
a word so beloved by Obama that he titled one of his bestselling books
The Audacity of Hope.
To get a picture of how dominant Obama has looked in this presidential
campaign, one could just invoke the words of an anonymous Republican
strategist: “If you believe in miracles, you believe John McCain is
going to win.”
That’s right. Most political pundits in the U.S. conjecture that it
would take a miracle for McCain, Obama’s Republican opponent, to pull
off an upset victory. They expect Obama, presidential candidate of the
Democratic Party, to trounce McCain and emerge undisputed winn...
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