Tuesday, November 18, 2008

‘Obama Fever ‘

I have a glance of hope when Obama wins, at least he will be better than McChain or Bush if I refer to his campaign and his last debate. I was so resentful to hear the black campaign of MC Chain, never intended to say that Obama didn’t involve on such unhealthy campaign but he was one step better than Mc Chain. I witnessed the part of their last debate, in the section of National defense where Iran was their Focus of Issue; Obama firmly stated that he will conduct dialogue with Iran amidst Mc Chain’s hard criticism. Those are points I got to support Obama [just in my limited ‘hope’]

And we hope Obama will make great change in US foreign Policy even though it may 'endanger' himself, remember JF Kennedy case? John F Kennedy was the first Catholic president of US and the only US President who tried to step out of American "platform" (he repressed Israel policy at that time and he also stood for black Americans) some proofs said that he was assassinated because of those reasons.

But we can’t hope much from that country, because whosoever become the US president he/she can’t stay out of American “platform” - to be the superpower country in the world that means conquering world in any aspects of life, including Ideology!. and the hardest thing for US President is to stop creating ‘newspeak world’ which has been created by US government since R Reagen regime, will Obama be able to stop it??. I'm not sure

[Newspeak is George Orwell term to describe the world that has been created by US through Media Hegemony, since that US Government built its image and make stigmatization to its political and ideological enemies]

And, I was a bit disturbed by Indonesian over-reacting on Obama’s Victory. Some Indonesian Obama Supporters even gathered together to watch the election on the five stars hotel and some proudly said that Obama is ‘Anak Menteng’ who leads US now. What a naïve thing..!!. Unfortunately, Such ‘Obama Fever’ also struck our political ‘Elite’, even our president humbly said that he hope much on Obama’s contribution to Indonesia. Furthermore, the ‘inferiority’ action in the West-East Connection dialogue broadcasted by Metrotv just a few days after the day of election, acted by Rizal Malarangeng and Syafii Anwar as the representatives of Indonesia. They spoke as if a servant who hopes kind attention from his boss. What a pity we are!!

Why do we have to hope Obama, a President of USA not a President of Indonesia??. It’s a fact that Obama lived in Jakarta for 4 years, so what’s the connection then??. Do we think that Obama will prioritize Indonesia because of such reason?, it’s really a naïve assumption. Obama is chosen by American people, and will hardly pay it back to them.

Why am I become so disturbed on such thing? In my point of view such manners are a reflection of our inferiority complex. Why don’t we believe in our country?, why don’t we start to be more independent? It’s fine if we hope improvement on US foreign Policy through Obama’s Hands, but we shouldn’t hope in such humble fashion. We have to try to stand on our own feet.!!

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