Barack Obama has convinced sixty three million people that he has ability to lead and govern the country by virtues of getting their votes. American people rate Barack Obama most highly for his leadership skills. According to Gallup, Seventy-two percent say he "is willing to make hard decisions," and 66% describe him as "a strong and decisive leader.
Obama’s turning points in his life was in his early childhood when attended school in Jakarta Indonesia. When he was 10 years old, his mother sent him back to Hawaii to live with his maternal grandparents. His unique schooling provides him connections to millions of people across multiple continents. He is the only president who can claim roots and heritage in many continents.
Unfortunately Obama is not immune affects of failures. His divorced parents and not being part of single-family unit made him about his ethnicity and race. He can relate to issues of diversity and multiculturalism. I believe his family background enhances his understanding of international politics.
Barack Obama. (2010). Gullup.com. Retrieved 10:41, Feb 16 2010 from http://www.gallup.com/poll/123104/obama-leadership-qualities-stand-out-americans.aspx
Gitomer, J. (2008, November 17). The next president of the U.S. made the sale. Grand Rapids Business Journal, p. 13. Retrieved from Regional Business News database.
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President Obama has so many characteristics that make him a great leader, but his popularity is clearly due to his strength and his vision. My leader, Michael J. Fox, included an epilogue in his memoir to discuss the election of President Obama and in this chapter, it is clear that both men have a shared vision, along with countless other great leaders like Christopher Reeve, that requires hope. Fox writes,
ReplyDelete"I saw, during the midterm campaign of 2006, how difficult it was for opponents of stem cell research to run against hope. And so it was in the 2008 presidential contest. This was hope in the collective, a definition that should always apply to the expression of a people's political will. Christopher Reeve had believed in a formula: optimism + information = hope. In this case, the informing agent was US. Granted, it may all look different in six months to a year, but it is hard not to be buoyed by the desire for positive change as articulated and advanced by Barack Obama. It is okay to hope. This time the aspiration of many will not be derided as desperation by a few, as it was during the stem cell debate of 06. By the time you read this book, President Obama and the 111th Congress will have established federal funding for stem cell research. The dam has broken...Just as I'd hoped" (Fox, 2009, p.271).
Clearly, the fact that Obama lifted the bans that were restricting Fox's foundation was significant in and of itself, but there is so much more to his message. Men like Fox and Obama teach the world how to hope again with their message of positivity, especially in the face of adversity.