“Obama is a child of the system that raised him.” you wrote.

Do you mean that if a person is raised in a system he or she will behave identically and similarly just like robots with identical and similar social, political, economical and welfare, etc. outcomes?

For you assumption to be true even Mandela and facist apartheid leader PW Botha of South Africa who were the child of the system wouldn’t have made any difference.

Adolf Hitler’s Nazi German leader and post Hitler German leaders didn’t make any difference because they were the child of the system, and so on.

The existance of military industrial complex does not exclude the framing, formation and implementation of pro people and pro democracy welfare policies.

What is for sure is that Obama is not coming to work for our Ethiopian problem solutions because Ethiopian problems needs to be solved by Ethiopians primarily.

But the democratic party and Obama himself as a chief excutive can set a general positive and favourable over all fertile atmosphere that may favour positive change for the efforts of Ethiopians.

Even for good farming and good abundant harvesting of foods we need abundant rain and fertile farmlands coupled with hardworking, skilled manpower, good seeds and work implements.

Even if you have good farming lands and abundant rains but lack motivated and skilled farmers having enough seeds and work implements, you may keep starving and blaming all else except yourself.

Metaphorically speaking here, treat the democratic party and the rising good OBAMA as an excellent fertile farm land opportunity with abundant rains and good climate.

Then, instead of farming negativities and depressive pessimism in the form of staring at one single red point like Spanish bulls, that is, “military industria complex”
get together in unity within diversity and transform the dehumanized Ethiopian society in to a vibrant and rich garden of EDEN for all its citizens and beyond.

Metaphorically speaking again, this amounts to skilled farming with enough quality and quantity of seeds and farm implements for producing abundant food products.

Don’t just sit back fatalistically and wait for Obama to come and do your share of the job on top of his own, simply because you have have given him one vote, and even crying already before hand that you may not get a sufficiently high enough profitable return on your grand investment.

Some of the parochial Ethiopians devoid of any democratic cultural values and appreciation for change may not run to vote for Obama.

They may not even understand as to what it means to have a democratic and pluralistic chief excutive in the white house who may develop humanistic policies and pro people programs as opposed to inhuman and proconmen policies of the neo cons rampaging the planet earth for oil while ordinary people are dying at home due to repeat natural devastations and economic staginations.

Some of these anti Obama characters are spinless dictator Wayne’s agents and cadres who are very unhappy about the popularity of democrat Barack Obama because they actually need facist dictators like themselves who may generousely fund their extended local Wayane facism.

Refugees and immigrants are in the main viewd as marginal groups who keep staying isolated from the host communities and as such keep living on the border line of society, divided, envious, frustrated and some times even turning on each other.

We need tireless educated and conscious uniting community leaders and activists who can see the big picture and the light at the end of the tunnel.

This is not the kind of back-home parochial ethnic and religious bickering and trying to oppress some one next door.

If anything, this is some kind of giving identity and providing an exceptionally visible role model for our children and grand children down the line, regardless of where we are on this planet earth at this historical time of the 21st century where the whole world is fast becoming a simple common village.

In the American context this is not about Obama but about ourselves, our children and grand children’s self respect and identity construction and expansion of personal and communal comfort zones.

As an Ethiopian, whether you are married to another Ethiopian or other race, live in the USA or in other countries, just turn to your small kids and friend’s kids and ask them as to with whom they identify and feel comfortable while watching Barack Obama talking or John McCain talking on television?

This is not about Obama soon coming and distributing sweets and ice creams but about role playing that young people can feel strong and see endless multiple posibilities rather than always staying outside in the cold and playing the victim’s role.