I’m not alone in watching the rise of Sen. Barack Obama, of course, but in recent days, things have gotten serious.
The latest developments are the op-ed piece in the New York Times by Caroline Kennedy, wherein she credits her children and their generation for making a connection for her between Obama and the sense of hope and excitement her own father brought to the country when she was a little girl.
Endorsements come and go, but this is a rare public statement by a female Kennedy in a race where the female candidate has even been cordially embraced by the Kennedys.
As someone who has chosen an entrepreneurial career, I am enjoying the Obama candidacy as a refreshing symbol of openness to the new and the innovative. We are in a time of rapid change, enabled by constant developments in many technological areas. In many ways, it is a confusing time, but there is one aspect of the changes that is recurrent: communication. The new phones compel people to talk for hours. The new social websites can rapidly publicize a video or event. We’re undeniably coming together. Now the task is for everybody to start paying attention to the big picture, the big problems, and realize we own them.
Which is where a President of the United States comes in. Barack Obama talks about change in a way that may translate into a new face for America to show the world, should he be elected. His very presence—young, Black, a prudent conciliator -- will signal an America that has grown from its sometimes parochial stance of the first-world superpower that is the best at everything and a moral arbiter and enforcer to a gifted nation whose enormous wealth comes with an obligation to lead and inspire.
If nothing else, the virtual entrepreneur, the dot.com. revolutionary, the influential bloggers, all embody a new spirit of independence and individual achievement. Can this spirit, that has accomplished nothing less than a revolution of the conduct of business and social networking, hold the key to unifying a fractured world? And is Obama the pioneering leader such a time calls for?
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that he is the face of a new America, still strong and rich and a leader and a haven. But maybe now also a nation reflecting diversity as an identity, not just a convenient badge. The hope is that a President
There was a time when I was a member of the employee world, and sat in a cubicle, and read firm-wide memos and emails and did all the things company people do. The people I met were company people, and everything I did revolved around the company.