Brightest black day!!!!

Well....well... well.... it’s time to talk about Obama...n his ‘big election and the earth moving’ (ok I stole this one from The Sun!!!!) Well way back...like alomst a year back was when I first heard about Obama, by the way of acknowledgin he existed!!!!! But I wanted Hillary Clinton to win the primaries.... not that I wanted Obama to lose but since Hillary was more known to me.... I had that what we all cal soft-corner or something..... But as I got to know more about the man...thanx to the media, which I’m a part of!!!! I said, “I like the man!”
So though in any direct sense it doesn’t affect me, cuz I don’t intend to ever go and live there, niether do I work wid a BPO but still like everyone else I too was kicked about he winning the election....and finally taking the oath as the president of the US.... I watched it...d swearing in, the inaugral speech, he n Biden biddin aideu to Mr Unpopular Former President..... Not half the number would have ever taken out time to watch Pratibha Patil or APJ kalam swear-in!!!!! Well, I was too young to care about presidents before that!!!!!
The journo in me seems to be taking a toll...I wanteds to know how Martin Luther King Jr, feels about his dream being finally realised!!!! If only I could dig the grave and see how whatever remains of him reacts to Obama’s election!!!!! But alas!!!! Mirror won’t sponsor it, though I’m sure Nid (the editor) would be kicked about the idea....But it ends there...an idea....that will in no way change my life!!!!
Since, we in India are very fond of drwaing parallels with the US...(and that remind me of Jayanth Sir....well my buddies from the School of communication and media studies, would know wat I mean!!!!!) So, coming back to drawing parallels.... So Obama is in White House...His only parallel in India as I can see it is our very own Behanji Mayawati.... How many of us will want to see change come to India as it has to the US? Are we ready for a Dalit PM??? Will we celeberate Mayawati at 7 Race course just as much.... (and Adi I’m not talking about Delhi’s race courses...I know you think they are awesome but this for God’s sake is where our PM lives!!!!)
And coming back to Obama.... Well, the man has a charisma and aura which you can’t overlook...I like to see him and as of now no amount of overdose has felt like an overdose really.... Incidentally, everytime, we decide on a special page on Obama, the onus is on me!!!! So I get to read loads n heaps more about the man than I would have wanted to....but I maintain it’s not an overdose yet!!!! So, I think the man plays the ‘family man’ card very well and that I’m one amongst you all, which is true in many ways though.... (well, it is one of those 6 tools of propaganda that we studied in TOMC but I’m can’t recall the term)... Parallels again.... I think it is the same card that Rahul Gandhi plays by staying and eating with the rural people in Amethi or sitting with the students in college canteen or by wearing a turban when in Punjab!!!!! And I would admit that it works...at least for me...both for Obama and Rahul!!!! Though I pretty much know it is part of the game, but I like to believe as it appears on the surface cuz it is pleasant..... Well, I don’t really have any array of expectation from this first Black President.... So far, so good!!!!
Cheers!!!!