My girl Agnes Agyapong has reminded me of something which had slipped my mind today, shockingly...
Now a year on...all I hear is deafening silence. Agnes argues that the silence is because people have realised that Obama is not God come to save us all. I must say I tend to agree, but also I think people being people are always circling like sharks after building up someone so high. On the one hand, there are those who always detested him and that rose as his popularity did. Then on the other hand, there were people who were so so influenced by the hype they really did believe he would be some single-handed world messiah. There were so many people in each camp that a year on there are enough of the unrealistic and disappointed to mingle with those who never liked Obama and what results is this resounding and sullen silence and disinterest. All I can say as a mild supporter is that I am glad of the silence because now people might leave him some space to do what he wanted to do so now 'yes WE (as in everyone) can'!
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As you know, I wrote a post on this topic also. I think people were looking for a miracle, you know, something biblical, to take place. And when that didn't happen MANY people lost faith.
No one wants the "hero" to actually be human.
That's so sad though because the heroic thing about it is that he is human
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