The Color of Obama
Published in ABC
(Spain) on 18 July, 2008
by RAFAEL L. BARDAJÍ (link to original)
(Spain) on 18 July, 2008
by RAFAEL L. BARDAJÍ (link to original)
Translated from
by Holly Fernandez.
Edited by .
At this stage of the race for the White House, the entire world knows that the issue of race, that is, that Barack Obama is Black, is one of the weightiest factors in his possible election. For those of his color, it is an essential virtue, for the rest, it is also relevant, but with the negative, racist, and anti-white connotations that have nourished it.
Whatever the case, Obama is criticized today not for the color of his skin, but rather for being too green for the office to which he aspires. That is to say, he is neither prepared, nor of the stature that circumstances require. His academic knowledge is good, his political career, however, is very short, and his performance as a leader, null. There are those who think that the President of the United States cannot always have experience, and that he might know to surround himself with adequate advisors, who, in the end, he will depend on to make his decisions. Avoiding the inabilities of those who do not know all in favor of those who say they do, the problem with the Democratic presidential candidate is that he has very poorly chosen his primary advisors. They add much experience, but of the wrong kind.
In foreign policy, one of his gurus, Zbigniew Brzezinski, was the security advisor for Jimmy Carter, during a time when policy blunders brought the Islamic Revolution of Ayatollah Khomeini, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the growing Russian presence in Africa, and the growth of communist guerillas in Central America, among other events.
His second greatest advisor, another brilliant intellectual, Anthony Lake, had major luck serving Clinton in the same position. Marginalizing himself in the Balkans, for example, he made possible the bloody civil war in the ancient Yugoslavia, not to mention other fiascos. This is the true problem that candidate Barack Obama represents for the world: He does not have experience, and his people are a group of fervent partisans that have accumulated a curriculum of dangerous failures. Now, America is in danger, and so are all of us.
Whatever the case, Obama is criticized today not for the color of his skin, but rather for being too green for the office to which he aspires. That is to say, he is neither prepared, nor of the stature that circumstances require. His academic knowledge is good, his political career, however, is very short, and his performance as a leader, null. There are those who think that the President of the United States cannot always have experience, and that he might know to surround himself with adequate advisors, who, in the end, he will depend on to make his decisions. Avoiding the inabilities of those who do not know all in favor of those who say they do, the problem with the Democratic presidential candidate is that he has very poorly chosen his primary advisors. They add much experience, but of the wrong kind.
In foreign policy, one of his gurus, Zbigniew Brzezinski, was the security advisor for Jimmy Carter, during a time when policy blunders brought the Islamic Revolution of Ayatollah Khomeini, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the growing Russian presence in Africa, and the growth of communist guerillas in Central America, among other events.
His second greatest advisor, another brilliant intellectual, Anthony Lake, had major luck serving Clinton in the same position. Marginalizing himself in the Balkans, for example, he made possible the bloody civil war in the ancient Yugoslavia, not to mention other fiascos. This is the true problem that candidate Barack Obama represents for the world: He does not have experience, and his people are a group of fervent partisans that have accumulated a curriculum of dangerous failures. Now, America is in danger, and so are all of us.
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