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Leah · Anmeldungsdatum: 03.09.2008 Beiträge: 38

Hello guys

i have a question to you. maybe it could be oldfashioned but i am very interesseted in this topic that´s why PLEASE answer, i want to hear your own opinion..it could be also very short or very long..That´s up to YOU
bye

Here the question:
Do you think a "Change" will occur in the USA because of Obama´s preseidency?

Pls answer,
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MI · Administrator Anmeldungsdatum: 22.01.2005 Beiträge: 1140 Wohnort: München

Let me return some questions:
How do you define change in a world that sees constant change? The word itself was cleverly chosen by Obama's election campaign as change always occurs in politics, but is a term nearly unmeasurable for lack of reference system. Or else put: If we apply Heraklit's idea of constant change, how can we measure change?
How about the idea behind "change"? Will Obama's presidency see changes to the USA that really affect everybody so much that they will afterwards say "Yes, there was a change"? Here I am perfectly sure that it will, but not because of Obama, but because of the world economic crisis (etc.), which affects America even more than Europe and already leads to new phenomena that most people there have not seen in their lives. Here, once again, Obama's words are well chosen, because - although he gave it a positive connotation for his campaign - the word "change" itself is neutral and even more, everybody understands different things by "change". Some might for example think that a privatization of a big bank is a change bigger than any change during the last precidencies, others might not see a change at all.
Thus the question must be: What did HE mean by "change" and will that be changed? According to the media, he already tackled many items on his agenda, but we must await the end of his presidency before we can juxtapose his agenda and actual achievements. If they are similar, then "change" occured, otherwise it didn't.

What I really want to express here is that we can say whether Obama's promised "Change" will occur or not only by comparing his agenda and his achievements. In my opinion, we must not even look at the circumstances for evaluation, as it is not question of a complete evaluation of Obama's presidency. What does that imply? It implies that we could conclude that he mastered heavy crisis, where he really "made a difference" and that he was a great leader, but still we could see that there was no "change".