Hey everyone!
I arrived in the USA on the evening of November 5, 2008 for dental surgery at Suwanee Dental Care with the best dentist in the world, Dr Bill Williams, Master Dentist. The only dentist who does not hurt you. No lie!
There was Obama frenzy everywhere I went, amongst all races. Georgia did not vote for Obama, but, being the inquisitive journalist that I am, I wanted to know what Americans felt about their newly-elected Forty-Fourth President.
My Caucasian limo-driver said that he did not vote for Obama because he felt that the Obama government would implement huge taxes on the big corporations which would eventually result in layoffs and economic hardship for the working class people. He felt that a McCain government would keep the middle class and working class, particularly farmers in Georgia, in good financial stead.
A Caucasian San Francisco businessman said that his family voted for Obama because it was time for Change in America because of the economic situation. I assumed gay rights as soon as I heard the words San Francisco, but, the gentleman was happily married.
An American international airline stewardess was elated that Senator Barack Obama had won and felt that he would be the one to implement the change needed to turn the American economy around.
A waitress said that she and her whole church were praying for the safety of Barack Oabama and his family because she was sure someone would try to kill him because he was an African-American bringing change for all the American people.
I had a dream on Thursday, November 21, 1963 that John F Kennedy had been assassinated. I woke up crying on Friday morning, November 22, 1963 and Kenneday was killed later that day. JFK was my favourite American President when I grew up.
On August 26, 1990, my only son, Andre Carrington Whitter was killed in a fatal traffic accident one year to the day that he had been shipwrecked at sea for eleven days. He had been plucked from the ocean by Captain Dedebilos of the Greek tanker the Chios, 90 miles NE of Bermuda. He managed to survive by eating seaweed and drinking his own urine.
I was overwrought with grief at my son’s death and I was sent a vision. Angels carried me through many lands and told me that a great man would come from afar. People would be treated fairly and justly under his rule and he would have unlimited financial resources to do his work. I now believe this great man to be Barack Obama, the Forty-Fourth President of the United States.
I pray that he will be the great man in my vision to bring about unity amongst nations. I watched the election in French on a Paris channel on November 4, 2008 and there were many people waiting with bated breath for Obama to win.
I bought all of the Magazines with Obama on the cover and History Made by Hope is my favourite. There are stories and colour photos depicting his life with his family and his rise to the position of Senator in Illinois and his subsequent successful election campaign in 2008.
Hopefully, if the new Obama government can put the brakes on this economic downslide, small investors like me may be able to see some movement in the money market and then be able to afford to spend some money on luxuries like music and entertainment.
Good luck to you all in the quarter finals on November 24!
