Obama’s life experience has given him a desire perspective on life, which he has combined with his own passion and love for this country. Obama can enable all Americans with diverse points of views to respect each other, through his eloquence reminders and reprioritization of the fundamental American goals of a better life and a shared love for his country
Obama had a diverse background. He was born in Hawaii, to parents from Kansas. They separated when he was two years old, and divorced in 1964. Instead of the common stable family and charmed life that all previous Presidents have had, Obama was forced to create an image of his absent father that according to what was told him by his mother and parents, whom he was raised with. (Newsweek) The image was partially accurate, and part of the image that a young boy needed to construct for himself to feel he was a stable and functional human being. In this way, Obama also represented a large increased segment of America, the increasing amount of people who identify with the have-nots of society, because he was not in a happy nuclear family where everything was peachy keen like in the ’50’s. Obama was under the fundamental psychological hardships of his father being absent, providing an affinity with so many more Americans, who found themselves in the middle of single parent or broken homes in this country across the ‘80’s and ‘90’s.
This created a higher level of instability and uncertainty for Obama growing up, and an understandable craving for stability, understandable to so many of subsequent generations such as Generation X-ers. In his younger days, Obama created a hope whose outcome is an early message that reflected the general conditions of the lost American dream: to have a stable family for himself when he got older. This also reflects a common sentiment of wanting to give his children what his parent could not provide for him, and what he missed in his upbringing. Of course, this revolved in... [continues]
Obama had a diverse background. He was born in Hawaii, to parents from Kansas. They separated when he was two years old, and divorced in 1964. Instead of the common stable family and charmed life that all previous Presidents have had, Obama was forced to create an image of his absent father that according to what was told him by his mother and parents, whom he was raised with. (Newsweek) The image was partially accurate, and part of the image that a young boy needed to construct for himself to feel he was a stable and functional human being. In this way, Obama also represented a large increased segment of America, the increasing amount of people who identify with the have-nots of society, because he was not in a happy nuclear family where everything was peachy keen like in the ’50’s. Obama was under the fundamental psychological hardships of his father being absent, providing an affinity with so many more Americans, who found themselves in the middle of single parent or broken homes in this country across the ‘80’s and ‘90’s.
This created a higher level of instability and uncertainty for Obama growing up, and an understandable craving for stability, understandable to so many of subsequent generations such as Generation X-ers. In his younger days, Obama created a hope whose outcome is an early message that reflected the general conditions of the lost American dream: to have a stable family for himself when he got older. This also reflects a common sentiment of wanting to give his children what his parent could not provide for him, and what he missed in his upbringing. Of course, this revolved in... [continues]
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