What is the meaning of Obama’s Victory?<\/strong><\/p>\nLiu Huidang<\/p>\n
1st: This year the American economy has begun to decline, which was not beneficial for the republican candidate McCain.\u00a0 In September of this month, the American financial crisis became an economic depression, consumerism shrunk and unemployment expanded.\u00a0 Therefore the American government adopted measures to prevent the crisis.\u00a0 However, the effects of these measures have yet to be felt.\u00a0 The trust of the American people is difficult to obtain.\u00a0 The financial crisis may continue for two or three years.<\/p>\n
2nd: Since 9-11, the war against terror has emerged.\u00a0 The Bush administration used an antagonistic strategy as their starting point.\u00a0 The serious mistake of invading Iraq made the administration lose much of the confidence of the people.<\/p>\n
History has shown that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction, and consequently that the Bush administration’s excuse for the invasion was preposterous.\u00a0 Furthermore, after the invasion, American forces found themselves in a serious quagmire.\u00a0 The invasion has cost billions of tax dollars and the lives of more than three thousand American soldiers.\u00a0 The American anti-terror policies have not only not been realized, but to the contrary have led to increased terror, and have failed to obtain peace for the whole world.
\n3rd: American voters are fickle; eight years of Republican rule seems too long.\u00a0 They wish to change the flavor, they want the democratic party to take over and turn over a new leaf.\u00a0 They want America to be able to extricate itself from its financial and diplomatic difficulties.<\/p>\n
4th: Another reason for the Democratic victory is opposition to the Bush administration by the American public.\u00a0 Bush has ruled for eight years, and whether in domestic or international affairs, has demonstrated sub-par performance.\u00a0 The American people had their patience tested too far and thus used their ballots to pass judgment on the last eight years.<\/p>\n
5th: This election demonstrates that American voters were not discriminatory.\u00a0At\u00a0one time, racial discrimination\u00a0was a serious problem in the U.S., especially for African Americans.\u00a0 The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968\u00a0is just one example of this.\u00a0 Recently, the U.S. has made considerable progress with regard to racial discrimination. Both Powell and Rice, ethnically black Americans of diverse backgrounds, have assumed positions of international importance.\u00a0 American voters, by choosing an man of African heritage to run the country, have made a miracle of historical nature.<\/p>\n
6th: Obama’s youth is of consequence.\u00a0 He appears handsome, which helped him obtain the support of women and youth.\u00a0 He was born in August of 1961 and at 47 is full of vigorous energy.\u00a0 McCain is 72, and seems a bit old.<\/p>\n
Obama will begin governance on January 1st.\u00a0 He will face no few problems.\u00a0 He must adopt measures to moderate the financial crisis and stop the degrading economic situation.\u00a0 He must resolve the military situation in Iraq.\u00a0 In the election, Obama’s attitude regarding Iraq was perfectly clear: he means to withdraw American forces as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n
Obama’s policy regarding China will almost certainly follow Bush’s lead of encouraging friendship between the two countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I was scanning some Chinese news sources after the election.\u00a0 I began reading one and decided to translate it.\u00a0\u00a0 I offer it here without comment, though I will note that reading the Chinese perspective on American politics is interesting and perhaps a bit entertaining.\u00a0 However, we would do well to keep in mind the extent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-here-you-will-find-the-posts-that-jim-wrote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/0708.fueledbyrice.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/0708.fueledbyrice.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/0708.fueledbyrice.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/0708.fueledbyrice.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/0708.fueledbyrice.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/0708.fueledbyrice.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/0708.fueledbyrice.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/0708.fueledbyrice.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/0708.fueledbyrice.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}