In the Name of Allah, the
Compassionate, the Merciful
BARAK OBAMA WINS - WHAT IT CONNOTES?
[Shamim A Siddiqi]
President Obama last night has won a well fought pitched battle
for his second term to run the affairs of the Superpower for "Four More Years".
He got the mandate to run his on-gong programs: * to create jobs for the
unemployed; * to uphold his Medicare program; * to strengthen the
infrastructure of the country in the fields of education, power
production, repairing roads, schools and bridges; * to stop the outsourcing of
jobs; * to eliminate the budget deficit and * reducing the national
dept by trillions of dollars. All these and many more are the challenges
ahead of him with a beleaguered Congress and defeated GOP leadership.
To win the die-hard opposition and a safe passage for his colossal
job, he has to make now endless compromises at every step of
legislation. What GOP couldn't get through Elections will get through
at a wide open bargain table. If he fails in this
attempt and couldn't raise taxes to bridge the gap his
"Four More Years" will be ruined only in political bickering,
delaying tactics and deadlocks at frequent intervals.
In sequence, the fate of American economy will remain in
jeopardy, balancing the budget and reducing the volume of national
debt will be ever ballooning, capital will remain shy to be invested to
produce jobs and services and the Corporate interest will twist his arms
to get the maximum share of its enterprises as usual. Outsourcing of
jobs will ever go on increasing as its cause is low cost of production that
highly industrialized countries like the
President Obama, as such, is not going to get an easy
sailing in the economic field at home for years together whereas in
foreign affairs, the PM of Israel is fast going to create problems for him by
making Iran's nuclear ambition a hot burning issue, an impending danger
for another war in the ME while the withdrawal from Afghanistan and
Pakistan is still a distant dream.
Let President Obama solve these headaches through his broadminded
compromises as he has indicated in his victory speech tonight.
Meanwhile, I want to draw the attention of the minority people living in
this country to a very important outcome of Presidential Election 2012.
It has changed the geopolitical situation of the country and put
some new realities before us. It is now clearly possible for the
ethnic minorities of this country to set up their candidate for
the post of President and win it at ease. President Obama got maximum
votes from Afro-Americans, about 70 % Spanish votes and about 40 % of
white women votes. He won the Election and the brute 84% white
majority couldn't do any thing to oust him from power.
This pattern of voting is now well set for us to think and work
accordingly if we can organize our community and produce a program for the
suffering and the oppressed people of the land, the country is now
ready to accept a phenomenon change in very near future.
Equally, it is an open invitation for Muslim leadership if
they are alive to the situation and resolve to work for the desired results in
due course.
I hope that President Obama will work for the development of
all the communities at par and make the best use of
his second term in office as an historical event. I wish
him all success.
Shamim Siddiqi