Can't get enough of him

If like me, you can't seem to get enough of Barack Obama in spite of the deluge from the media at every corner you turn to, then you've got to see this website by a Photographer who has covered him for the past FOURTEEN MONTHS.

Justin Webb thinks the site is as cool as the owner - a certain Scout Tufankjian and I wholeheartedly agree.

FLS, there are messages for us on slide 7 of the 155 of the Barack Obama link under Barack Obama campaign. If he can, Yes we Can!

Can He be Nigeria's Obama?

While weighing up the possible fall-outs of Yar A'dua's election being voided, Sonala Olumhense wraps up his column in today's Lagos Guardian with these words:
"Pat Utomi: In 2007, he was the outsider who could have engineered a fundamental difference. He found, however, that Nigerian politics had not left the realm of money and rigging. Since then, however, a young man called Barrack Obama has emerged. His terrain might be the United States, but globalization has made him an international and Nigerian subject. If anyone is to benefit locally from Obama's emergence and message, it is Utomi."

Will his 'insurgency' have any chance of survival this time around?

Who else do you think fits the bill? - comments welcome.

photocredit - kwenu.com

A Chorus that can't be Ignored

"We know that what began as a whisper has now swelled to a chorus that cannot be ignored."It is a chorus that will not be deterred; that will ring out across this land as a hymn that will heal this nation, repair this world, make this time different than all the rest. Yes. We. Can."

Listen to the Hymn here

photocredit - Chicago Tribune

One Super Duper Tuesday morning

As America wakes up to this day that Political Pundits have christened Super Duper Tuesday, one gets the feeling that this day could be significant or maybe not.
Having spent the better part of the last year campaigning from the beaches of Florida to the vineyards of California, the Republicans and Democrats candidates are likely to have a clearer sense of who will win the party nomination for the general elections later in the year.
The buzz around these elections is the most frenzied I can remember since I began paying attention to these matters at the time of the Dukakis nominantion in 1988.
Two comments from Arianna Huffington form the book ends in the shelf of opinion and commentaries that have flooded the media since the primary season began in Iowa till date.
On the night of Barack Obama's suprising victory on that January night, she opened her article by saying
Even if your candidate didn't win tonight, you have reason to celebrate. We all do...
Because tonight voters decided that they didn't want to look back. They wanted to look into the future --- as if a country exhausted by the last seven years wanted to recapture its youth.
Yesterday, she alluded to what may yet be an underlying motive for voting one way or another for those who go out to the caucuses and ballots later today.

"The 2008 Race for President", she said, was "the Search for our Better Selves."

You may agree or disagree with Ms Huffington's opinion, but what you can't discount is the extent to which the world beyond America is watching these events closely in the hope that maybe those same feelings can be engendered in our politics. As those of us non-Americans can't vote to decide who wins this race, the best we can hope for is that the same buzz can be generated in our nations and communities. But again, its a case of maybe or maybe not. Whatever happens, we can always look back to this Tuesday morning in historic terms.

Image - Courtesy of HuffPo