A Clearer Perspective

Within the past week, New York Times columnist and former foreign correspondent for the newspaper, Roger Cohen, has written two interesting opinion pieces relating Barack Obama’s family history, and the effect his presidency would have on world foreign relations.
Cohen, now reporting for the Times from Nairobi, Kenya provides an interesting angle on Obama as the next possible world leader by letting us gain a glimpse of the presidential race as seen from Obama’s country of heritage.His father, Barack Obama Sr., was born in the Nyanza Province of Kenya and worked as a domestic servant to the British. Obama, now undoubtedly one of the most well-known faces in the world, was at that point just a little boy helping his father herd goats.

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You see his name strung out on banners on freeway overpasses, riding along on bumper stickers and popping out on signs around campus.He is Ron Paul … the grassroots, pro-constitution, anti-war, fiscally conservative candidate so loved by his supporters and yet so ignored by the mainstream.

Ron Paul is what’s happening out on the margins while the mainstream candidates are standing on their soapboxes offering the same rhetoric that every kind of political candidate has every said. The campaign he’s running is a subtle, yet enlightened call for revolution.

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It’s fitting that media reform would be a campaign issue for presidential candidates like Dennis Kucinich and Mike Gravel. Don’t know who they are? Well, that starts to get toward my point. Kucinich and Gravel – both still trying to hold their own in the race for the White House – are prime examples of the chronic lack of coverage that less well-funded candidates receive. These “back of the pack” runners are given their few moments to speak at the debates and press conferences, and then quietly ushered aside to make room for the glitz and glam of media hogs like Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

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