The renaissance of erudition and statemanship in US Politics.

There used to be a time when Politicans could really write; when they had, as a fundamental requirment of their service, a strong and even elegant command of the English language. When Politicans where Statesmen, rather than masters of the soundbite, and media mugging of their opponents in 30 seconds or less.

We once enjoyed a wealth of such statesmen who could write, and who's available media technology consisted of a precious supply of parchment, quill, and ink, and who graced this parchment with language worthy of the effort and expense to communicate their ideas and heartfelt opinions.

Back when this nation was young; when people took writing seriously because it was the only media; the skillful, elegant, and erudite use of language was a requirement of leadership and statecraft.

For example:

"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."

The Declaration of Independence was written by such Men, and considering the above passage, is it a stretch to draw a parallel with such men, and the challenges before them at the birth of this nation, with a Man such as Barack Obama and the challenges we now face? Does he have access, through the vehicle of his being, to the tools required to meet the challenges before us? I would emphatically submit that he does--in abundance--and which includes a sublime command of the English language.

I am ever grateful, that unlike our founding fathers, we do not today face an "Absolute Despotism" in America; however, we face Despotism none the less. A subtle Tyranny and Despotism of cynical and amoral self interest at the unnecessary expense of the common good. Of Machiavellian manipulation of media channels and of the basest of human emotions. A Tyranny less obvious yet as ultimately dangerous as that dispensed by an evident King oppressing the 13 Colonies of the New World. The Tyranny of these times has reduced most citizens of this nation to a state of numb apathy or to the extremes of polarized political cannibalism; that is, until this moment; and this Movement; until Barack Obama.

Barack's words "We are not blue states, or red states, but the United States..." will continue to reverberate across time. Barack's is a new Declaration of Interdependence; where men and women of all affiliations, as their most scared duty serve a common good, this nation and the World's good, along with their own and endeavour, together, to restore this nation to an embodiment of the values and purpose that once held us in the greatest International esteem.

I pray for Barack Obama's safety. We should all pray for his safety for he must certainly be a target now that he has proven to be 'Electable'. I pray that his message finds its way past the cynics and media pundits, past the fear mongering and doubt that it sows and into the hearts of enough people such that he can win the Democratic Nomination and the General Election.

We, in America, and in the World, desperately need an American President, and an American Government, that is much more "21st Century" and much less tied to the obsolete vision, and methods, of the last century. We need Leadership that is firmly Worldcentric in view, and that exhibits a much more enlightened perspective.

By far--nobody else is close--Barack Obama is that Man and could form such a Government.




--Chuck Tellechea