Many people say that it’s the beginning of a new era if Barack Obama wins this election. Obviously Obama is now the 44th President of America. It’s very interesting to see how far America has come to for us to see the first Black President. America has obviously evolved quite a bit since the days of slavery and is pretty incredible to see Martin Luther King’s famous speech, “I have a dream…” actually beginning to come true.

Another bonus for Obama is that he grew up in Indonesian and hopefully understands some Muslim culture and custom. We will find out if this is true, but it’s what we would like to think, at least hopefully understand more than the other 43 presidents before him since he has actually lived and experienced it first hand.

Also, Obama grew up in the ‘main streets’ of America and faced many of the same challenges ‘main street’ American faced. Unlike some of the more recent president who were effectively born and breed into a role of politics, Obama is just another ‘Joe Bloggs’ from the street (within my time anyways). Let’s hope Obama can get America out of the mess that Bush created.

Personally I think it’s great that an ordinary black American from the streets can become the president of America. It truly makes you believe, if he can become the first black president of America, then we can be and do anything we put our mind to!

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