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"I have a Dream that my follows: them out with billions of dollars of current situation demands an four little children will grow * Measures to tackle the eco- the tax payers' money. effective and efficient set of offi- up in a nation which will nomic crisis The restlessness and frustra- cials to salvage the country from judge them not by the color * America's future plans in tion of the American people it's present crisis. of their skin but by the con- the two wars in Afghanistan and regarding the future of their No doubt Obama's election tent of their character" Iraq. country has made them want a has changed the political land- 21 - Martin Luther King Jr. * Health Insurance for all change and they saw the change scape of the United States of Americans and the rising cost of in the form of Barack Obama. America. Now it is left to him to World Economy... At the stroke of the mid-night healthcare They felt that he would do a tackle the challenges he faces hour last Tuesday, Barack Obama The American economy is better job to pull the country out and to prove that the people's 29 had a tryst with Destiny. bleeding - loss of jobs and hous- of the mess. Obama has already choice was correct. His date with destiny made him the President of the United States of America and also the most powerful man in the world. The Black community which was Prayers and Affirmations... brought into America to pick cot- ton also picked a President. Martin Luther King Jr's dream forty years ago of equality of races became a reality when the American people, both white and black stood up and elected 28 Barack Obama their President. Victory with Vision... They have judged him not by the color of his skin but by the Monsoon Health 9 content of his character and abil- ity. Monsoon Arts 20 "I came, I saw, I con- quered….." 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