I gotta crush on Obama..

This song rang the ears of millions in the year 2007 /08 when the then Illinois senator Barack Obama was running for Presidential election primaries. The Obama campaign was marked by visits from many celebrities, but this song was kinda a cornerstone of the entire campaign and the "Obama gal" was present in many of his campaign trails.

Personally, having followed the campaign closely, I never gave Obama an outside chance to win the Democrat primaries.... let alone be elected the President of the United States. I had my reasons to believe that he was not a President material and him being black was not the one on my list. I remember having long discussions with my peers on his electability and the most colorful one I remember was from this guy Kwan; he said " the day a black man enters the White house, Ill run butt-naked on the school campus". That summed it up for me, it seemed the most obvious vote-bank of Barack Obama had more faith in Hillary Clinton than his candidature. People said all sort of things in the debates and the writing was on the wall.. if California and New York voted for Sen. Hillary Clinton, Obama would have no choice but retire. Guess what California and New York did vote for Hillary... rest is history.

Very few times in the history does an underdog perform, and many times you find the world cheering for an underdog to perform. The entire world was chanting "YES HE CAN" and come November 04 2008, history was made in America as Sen. Barack Obama became the first black president of the United States of America. I remember seeing millions of Americans in tears when he gave the acceptance speech and I also remember millions thronging the Capitol on 17 th Jan 2009 for his inauguration. World media covered this live..the first foe any US president.. and frankly, even before he officially took over as the President, Barack Obama seemed like the messiah who would shepherd the world out of many a crisis.

The message in this is not political.. not even a bit.. whether President Obama will stand the test of time and deliver, will he be the messiah the world hoped he would be, future holds the answers to these intricate questions. What we must understand is this, whenever in the history a great battle was won, it raised the hopes of millions that the victory will bring a new lease of life to humanity and it becomes the sacred obligation of the victor to serve this expectation to the best of his abilities.

So long.....