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El Caribe, Dominican Republic
'As a Human Being,
I Support Obama'
"I write these words as a
human being, as an inhabitant of the Earth, as a son of God, as a lover of
universal values that must prevail among those who inhabit the five continents:
Barack Obama must be the next President of the United States. In the event that
he doesn't win, many will be sad and perhaps shed tears, because humanity as a
whole will have lost. Barack Obama is a light that inspires hope that we can
have a better world."
By Pedro Dominguez Brito*
Translated By Paula Van de Werken
October 29, 2009
Dominican
Republic - El Caribe - Original Article (Spanish)
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A supporter of Barack Obama during a campaign rally in Sunrise, Florida, Oct. 29. As great as the support for Obama is in the United States, global support is even stronger. And according to a recent poll of Latin American countries, knowledge of the U.S. election is greater in the Dominican Republic than any other nation in the region.
Latin American Poll Shows strong support for Barack Obama
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I'm not writing
this article as a Dominican or a Latino, which I am by chance, although I feel
proud of my roots. Naturally, I don't write this as a United Statesien [someone of the United States], which I am
not.
I write these
words as a human being, as an inhabitant of the Earth, as a son of God, as a
lover of universal values that must prevail among those who inhabit the five
continents.
I may be biased,
I don’t deny it. But I say from my heart with rock-solid conviction, thinking
of the future of the world beyond the end of my nose and my circle of friends: Barack
Obama must be the next President of the United States.
From afar, we
must pray or transmit whatever energy we
can to make this happen.
It would be a round of
applause for peace - we are so tired of useless wars based on deception.
But at the same time, Obama
will be a president who will energetically confront terrorism - that atrocious
kind of terrorism that, in the name of ideology or religion, murders without compassion.
It would be a welcome
development for people to see someone ascend based on their strength, study and
sacrifice, which is what Obama has done. He is an extraordinary symbol of overcoming,
which will serve as a worthy example for generations to come.
It would also elicit a round
of applause for the United States, whose moral leadership couldn't be lower thanks
to the disastrous matter of human rights and violations of international law, which
is the fault of the government headed by George Bush. With Obama, that great
country will surely more than recover its prestige and respect within the
community of nations.
And it would bring a round of
applause for the recovery of the North American economy, the collapse of which is
spreading without impediment to all of our nations, where the poorest people - including
Americans - are the most affected. The catastrophe over there drags us all down.
In the event that Obama
doesn't win, many will be sad and perhaps shed tears, because humanity as a
whole will have lost, as all of us will, in terms of our own small parts of it.
The disenchantment, believe
me, will be wide spread, and if the globe had a flag, it would be flying at half-mast.
Posted by WORLDMEETS.US
Barack Obama is a light that
inspires hope that we can have a better world, or at least that we'll try for
one without the specter of the hawks, without the rule of intolerance, without
the gibberish of mediocrity and without the leadership of people with messianic
conceits who are only predestined to inflict harm.
*Pedro Dominguez Brito is a lawyer
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