"Change is coming"
Barack Obama is certainly one of the greatest men of our times. To see him speak inspires and gives hope not just to Americans but to people all over the world. And this especially counts for young people like me who are simply amazed at the brilliance of his oratory. In the face of such troubling times the world can do a lot better with Barack Obama as president of the United States. Obama's stances on global issues are also highly praiseworthy. His willingness to negotiate and engage in a full diplomatic process with Iran shows his maturity in dealing with such issues as was done by other great American presidents such as Kennedy who met the Soviet leader Khrushchev and Reagan who met Gorbachev to avert crisis. His pre-war judgment that things would not go fine in Iraq proves his level of sophisticated understanding of the world. But what strikes me most is his reference to Bangladesh and poverty in a foreign policy speech in Berlin recently. He said “the world can only be happy when the child is out of poverty in Bangladesh” and continued to stress on other issues such as genocide in reference to Darfur. The mention of Bangladesh in his speech confirms how much he is committed to eliminating poverty and I am sure that once he is elected president Bangladesh will come into a much greater sphere of importance to the United States. When he says “change is coming”, there is enough reason to believe that certainly change is coming not just to America but to the world at large.
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