Out with the old and in with the new, Americans are saying in the 2008 US presidential campaign as America leads the global economy on a crash-and-burn out-of-control downward spiral. The upside, of course, is that once bottom is hit, the only way to go is up. That is the painful national lesson America learns as it bids farewell to a noble war veteran and hails a world-savvy young computer-literate leader capable of negotiating peace instead of war.
The 2008 US presidential campaign is inexorably demonstrating an age-old truism. Experience deserves the highest respect as it yields the torch of leadership to youth at warp speed.
The young Barack Obama chose the wizened Joe Biden to be his back-up while the seasoned maverick John McCain took the unknown retrograde Sarah Palin to be his. As the results of a disastrous eight years cascade into a revolution for the United States and the world by overturning preconceptions about race, gender and predictability based on the past, the only way forward for America is to drop the pretense of being the world's sole superpower and conduct a crash-course in make-up homework to figure out how to deal with the world's 200 other countries who have become equals while America was mired in myopia.
The 260 year-old United States is the world innovator that has given rise to the opportunity for the revolutionary development that a Black man will lead a developed country at a critical time when the world needs an innovative approach to the political, economic, ideological and social challenges posed by a globalizing world without borders. Whether big or small, every country in the world needs all the others to tackle the effects of climate change, the spread and control of disease, the production and distribution of energy and food, the stimulation of market flows based on areas of expertise, and the use of leading national assets to address global needs.
Among the few lessons of history that apply in the 2008 world, America's leadership in the affording of opportunity and in capitalizing on openings stands in the forefront. No other country offers a freer invitation to the entrepreneur than America and no country provides more support or forgiveness for failure. None give greater free-play to trends at the cutting edge of universal social discourse, where image knocks the common sense out of substance under the impact of style because of the feedback loop impact of rapid global mass communication, an area in which America excels.
No national leader today is a faceless voice of the country it leads. The televised, Googled image that goes with message is a component of the overall package sold to the national electorate and the world at large.
As the world watches the 2008 US presidential election, the heroic war veteran John McCain with his fifties beauty queen cheerleader Sarah Palin are a throwback to the past. With the global economy tanking under the great America's lead, the world wants a savvy Barack Obama at America's helm with a globally experienced Joe Biden at his side to lead the way into an exciting, prosperous new global era.
Helen Fogarassy is a New York based internationalist writer who has worked on a contract basis with the United Nations for nearly 20 years. She is the author of a suspense novel, The Midas Maze, about murderous hijinks in UN/US relations. She is also the author of The Light of a Destiny Dark, a novel about the Euro-American cultural gap through Hungarian eyes, and a nonfiction eyewitness tribute to the UN's work, Mission Improbable: The World Community on a UN Compound in Somalia. All are available on the major web bookstore sites.
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