Two more days to go before its D day for the Americans. It is not just for them but for all those people around the world who have been closely watching, following, discussing the new developments in American politics. For those ardent fans of the rising phenomenon called Barack Obama.
We (Manoj and I) have been discussing this stuff for a while and wondered what was it that really pulled us into this trail?
There are many reasons, looking at Obama's background, humble beginnings, almost like an outsider with a Kenyan father, half-black, his struggles to rise up to be a senator, the odds he faced and ofcourse to see a makeover done on the American face which is lately quite discolored and wrinkled with Bushism.
We, in India are way too far away to even be directly affected by the whitehouse politics but it does rouse our interest whenever this black American opens his mouth to speak. He is so unlike his counterparts, be it Republican or Democrat, his responses, reactions all are so different, not to speak of his temparament. And above all he is positively confident of himself. And look at his family, they look so ordinary and hence believable.
I feel that as the days went by and as the parties got tougher on each other, it must have been Obama's coolness or coldness to those fiery darts that must have increased his fan following not just in America but else where too.
Maybe these clicked something in us to follow all those programs, write-ups on the elections (ofcourse Manoj is keener than me...no wonder Abhishek has stuck Obama pictures on his bedroom wall).
We too hope like many of you that Barack Obama wins the elections. It might not change even an iota of America's foreign policy or would never usher in a greater IT boom in India or boost a higher outsourcing but it would just help everyone around the globe to feel comforted that fair play still holds, that nastiness not always gets an upperhand and that all are equal and not that some are more equal than others.