Barack Obama, The Next President of United State of America

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Salam and hello to all. As you already know, the US presidency Election Day already passed and the result already came out. So as for the result, Barack Obama won the election and will become the next US president. What I hope for is, Barack Obama can change the global views towards America.

Some short introduction about Barack Obama. Barack Obama is a son of black father from Kenya (That’s the reason why Kenya’s peoples had a party to celebrate this winning) and a white mother from Kansas. This Democratic senator from Illinois sealed his victory after defeating his competitor from Republican Party which is Senator John McCain. To read more info about this news you can proceed here.

As the economy of the US itself is going down right now, the main thing that Barack Obama will do as a new President of United State is to tackle the economy and fix their current economy crisis. Another great news is, Barack Obama will withdraw most of US Army that currently in Iraq right now within 16 months. So these are part of the first steps that Obama will take. From my opinion, these first steps that will be taken by Barack Obama as new president are great to change how the world look towards America in the next few years. Many people’s around the globe are congratulating his winning and hope to see the changing that Obama will bring and believed that he can bring a change. You can read what peoples around the world said about Obama’s win here and here.

This is a quote I took from Barack Obama’s speech after his winning.

If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.

Agree with him. The power of democracy can change the country and change the country’s future. What I’m wondering, is there any possibility for my country, Malaysia to have the same way of selecting the Prime Minister of Malaysia? I means through the election? Till now, the way of selecting the Prime Minister of Malaysia is just simple as the person below the current Prime Minister will become the next Prime Minister after the current Prime Minister retired. I think Malaysia should also implement a democracy way of selecting the Prime Minister as what American did to select their president of the country.

For full speech of Barack Obama, you can proceed here.

Then what our Malaysia young politicians said about Obama’s victory? Here I quoted some of what they said; The opinions are taken from two of our young politicians, Khairy Jamaluddin (BN-Rembau) and Yusmadi Yusoff (PKR-Balik Pulau). Source from Zuhri Aziz.

Sorry it is in Malay language, lazy to translate. Hoho, hope you don’t mind.

Saudara Khairy berpesan kepada warga Malaysia untuk tidak terlalu menaruh harapan kepada Barack Obama dari segi dasar luar Amerika Syarikat, sungguhpun populariti calon parti Demokrat itu amat tinggi di negara Malaysia. Ini kerana walaupun Obama yang dijangka menang dilihat lebih sedia mendampingi para pemimpin negara Islam berbanding lawannya John McCain dari parti Republikan, beliau juga mempunyai kedudukan pro-Israel dalam soal kemelut konflik Palestin.

Dalam soal hak asasi manusia pula, Saudara Yusmadi menaruh harapan bahawa Presiden baru Amerika Syarikat akan memperjuangkan hak asasi manusia sejagat, sejajar dengan Deklarasi Hak Asasi Manusia Pertubuhan Bangsa-bangsa Bersatu. Saudara Khairy bersetuju dengan pandangan tersebut, tetapi meluahkan kekhuatirannya terhadap tradisi Demokrat yang tampak lebih sedia campur tangan dalam negara lain atas alasan memperjuangkan hak asasi manusia.

Saudara Khairy berpendapat bahawa dalam isu ekonomi, Obama merupakan calon yang lebih elok untuk Malaysia kerana tampak lebih bersikap adil dalam rundingan Perjanjian Perdagangan Bebas (PPB) seperti yang dilihat dari kecenderungan untuk membatalkan PPB Amerika Utara (NAFTA). Maka, sesiapa pun yang mengambil alih tampuk Presiden Amerika Syarikat perlu lebih menghormati kepentingan Malaysia dalam apa-apa rundingan PPB yang mungkin diadakan kembali pada masa hadapan.

I don’t have anything to comment since these are their opinion. But, another response by current Malaysia Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi regarding the Obama winning attracted my attention. For full news you can read here. But I quoted what he said;

It is up to the people to decide, just as the Americans had done through the democratic process.

And here Malaysia? Are we not democratic enough?

Opposition leader, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said;

I call on him to immediately act on the need to engage with all quarters and to try first to
withdraw from Iraq.

So, what do you say? Do you think the same as what I think? Feel free to drop your comment below ya!

p/s: anyway that’s just my personal point of view, take it or not take it, its up to you.

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