“I barely knew him, but when, after his death, I finally took my first trip to his tiny village in Kenya and asked my grandmother if there was anything left from him, she opened a trunk and took out a stack of letters, which she handed to me.
There were more than thirty of them, all handwritten by my father, all addressed to colleges and universities across America, all filled with the hope of a young man who dreamed of more for his life. And his prayer was answered when he was brought over to study in this country.
But what I learned much later is that part of what made it possible for him to come here was an effort by the young Senator from Massachusetts at the time, John F. Kennedy, and by a grant from the Kennedy Foundation to help Kenyan students pay for travel. So it is partly because of their generosity that my father came to this country, and because he did, I stand before you today – inspired by America’s past, filled with hope for America’s future, and determined to do my part in writing our next great chapter.”Här är hela talet.
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Jag skrev just om det i ett svar på en annan kommentar. Frågan blir ju lite vad man vill ha för typ av president och vad presidenten har för egentlig makt?! Om man tänker på presidenten som en rollfigur som ska ta hand om folket kanske det viktigaste i dagens läge är en entusiasmerande och karismatisk individ? Han är ju inte dum i huvudet menar jag... bara det att det är mycket patos och inte så mycket praktiskt.
Samtidigt måste man lugna folket om lågkonjunkturen som står bakom dörren som det elaka trollet. Och så var det, det där kriget i Irak och Iran som lurar bakom nästa knut... och så USA handelsunderskottet med Kina...
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