{"id":22903,"date":"2008-11-04T15:19:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T15:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clusterfamilyoffice.com\/blog\/?p=444"},"modified":"2008-11-04T15:19:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-04T15:19:00","slug":"gimme-hope-obama-gimme-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clusterfamilyoffice.com\/en\/gimme-hope-obama-gimme-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Give me hope, Obama, give me hope."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">45 years after his famous speech, Luther King\u2019s dream has been realised with the election of a black man as president of what is still the most powerful nation on the planet. The Republican bid was doomed from the start due to its historical tensions with Bush. McCain was never a serious contender against Obama. He was there because it was his turn, and there was no way for the Republican establishment to prevent it. Some voices see shady dealings which they claim were necessary for Obama to be elected, but in fact some voices see conspiracies everywhere and all the time. Be that as it may, the costly campaign is now history, and the present and the future belong to a black Democrat.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The situation facing the new president is shockingly unprecedented. Barack Obama will obviously go down in history as the first black president of the US, but also for the times in which he has had to govern. Only history will tell whether or not Obama rose to the occasion. A devastated global financial landscape in freefall is what awaits the new president, who, together with the world\u2019s other leading figures, is expected to devise a new form of capitalism.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"connecta-video-container\" style=\"margin: 2em 0;\"><iframe title=\"Yes We Can \u2013 Barack Obama Music Video\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jjXyqcx-mYY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n<p>The G20 summits and their various offshoots will take place over the coming months. A long and uncertain process that would have been derailed by McCain and the Republicans under the pretext of protecting the free market in a fundamentalist manner. Obama supports the death penalty, is anti-abortion, and attends mass almost daily, yet he is still the progressive option who may be more receptive to the <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/freshfamilyoffice.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/bretton-woods-1944-new-york-2008.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Reformation of Capitalism<\/a>. But let us be responsible, G20 leaders: without proposals or agreements that are surprising and groundbreaking, we will not find a solution. And only Obama and his team would be able to accept and work on drastic proposals; McCain would not.<\/p>\n<p>What will these proposals be? There is much speculation, but it is nothing more than that. However, it seems logical to assume that preparations for the forthcoming summits \u2013 at least for the first one on 15 November \u2013 are likely to be very intense. All the heads of state involved in the G20 in one way or another are set to experience moments of glory for their own self-importance. Unfortunately, some will not be up to the task, but these incompetents can rest assured that no one will ever find out. For the time being, the mere fact of acknowledging that the future of the global economy \u2013 that is to say, the future of the planet \u2013 must lie in the hands of some twenty countries, including states with <a href=\"http:\/\/es.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lista_de_pa%C3%ADses_por_PIB_%28nominal%29_per_c%C3%A1pita\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">per capita income<\/a> of just 1.000$ is already a great achievement for humanity. This simple yet magnificent organisational success \u2013 unimaginable amidst the frenzy of the welfare state \u2013 is a sign that our leaders (everyone\u2019s leaders) have grasped the significance of the moment. And the G20 leaders and their respective teams represent us all, even if there are not 21 or 22 of them. Only if we see it this way \u2013 those who are included and those who are left out \u2013 will we be securing the future of humanity.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Now, G20 leaders, surprise us with your proposals. It won\u2019t be McCain we can blame for the failure of the measures to be taken, but Barack Obama, the first black president in US history. Gimme Hope, Obama, Gimme Hope\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"font-style: italic;\"><p>This is the current list of G20 members: Germany, Saudi Arabia, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, the United States, France, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, <b>Mexico<\/b>, the Republic of Korea, the United Kingdom, Russia, South Africa, Turkey and the European Union.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>P.S. If, against all expectations, McCain wins, we\u2019ll be writing about it shortly <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Gimme Hope, Obama, Gimme Hope (Part 2).<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>45 a\u00f1os despu\u00e9s de su famoso discurso, el sue\u00f1o de Luther King corona a un negro como presidente de la que a\u00fan es la naci\u00f3n m\u00e1s poderosa del planeta. La apuesta blanca republicana naci\u00f3 ya abortada por sus tensiones hist\u00f3ricas con Bush. McCain nunca fue un rival con opciones reales ante Obama. Estaba ah\u00ed porque [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sin-categorizar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clusterfamilyoffice.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clusterfamilyoffice.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clusterfamilyoffice.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clusterfamilyoffice.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clusterfamilyoffice.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clusterfamilyoffice.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clusterfamilyoffice.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clusterfamilyoffice.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clusterfamilyoffice.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}