Obama

The title could be longer, but in that name it says it all really, the first African American president of the United States, but also a president with a very real (and unfortunate) reality that he might not survive his second term election.

For a man that took America’s political sphere and widened it out to all possible voters, this man is a legend, besides he made me, in Australia want to vote for the guy!

America has two key problems, its economic bias, and political xenophobia.

To even have an African American president is a sentiment to how far the US of A has come since its years of revolutionary independence.

To get to that point saw socio-political struggles and plenty of people unitedly digging their heels into the ground, making it that much harder for a president of another ethnicity to be elected to office.

With such struggle to that point, nobody said it was going to be easy for Obama to make his mark and actualise his promises.

Besides, he was left a stack of debt by the outgoing President George W Bush.

To address America’s issues, they come into being when the Universal Healthcare Plan was debated in America, for one, universal health care meant a threat to the industry that was as large as one of Trump’s towers, thus meaning it is like trying to take the lolly from the child, it will be difficult. The second point of political xenophobia goes back a little further, to the Nixon administration when the fear of communism was higher than most college students.

To relate this to Healthcare was that to give universal access was perceived to be a socialist manoeuvre with critics saying Obama was more socialist than democratic, but to remind you ladies and gentlemen, he is a Democrat, progressive, remember?

Thus, a highly watered down result came from this.

Today, an aged Obama who still speaks so eloquently is being worn down by the barriers America still has, and perhaps, in an unfortunate turn of events, time will not move quick en0ugh for the president whose one term seems his only :(