Fellow Boholanos,
It is with honor and pure jubilation that we welcome our new president of the United States, Barack Hussein Obama.
For us in the States, it demarcates one step closer to the realization of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's "I Have a Dream" speech and his call for a <a href="
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His candidacy has tapped the energy of millions of Americans that are committed to social change and an excitement I have never seen before in my life. I am proud to be part of the new majority in this country and I will be working even harder to make our initiatives a reality. We will make sure this is truly a new America as Obama has already begun to challenge our generation in face our problems we currently have (video of his inauguration speech below).
It is a monumental event as we welcome the first African American, the first Hawaiian and post-civil rights community organizer into the highest office in the US.
One quote that struck me during the speech, "The world is changing, and we must now change with the world." I truly hope it signals a different direction in our foreign policy and approaches we have to globalization and global warming. We will be keeping a vigilant eye on it.
Question: In addressing Philippine-US relations, what would you tell the new Obama Administration?
With Obama's exposure to Southeast Asia as a child in Indonesia, his upbringing in Hawaii, some say (and time will tell) by his surroundings, he's possibly the closest thing we have to a U.S.<a href=http://bpimentel.blogspot.com/2008/02/obama-first-pinoy-us-president.html > "Pinoy President" [/url].
With love,
-Leo
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