Thomas L. Friedman, a writer for the New York Times, in Radical in the White House is basically saying that although we have broken the racial barriers in Washington and in the white house, we have not broken all the barriers. He is basically urging all the voters and really all of the general public to continue to knock barriers down.
Sure, we may have done something that Martin Luther King and many others thought would never happen but now we are in a time of depression and in need of some desperate changes. He, with many other Americans, hopes that Obama will stand by what he says and with the help of the nation, change the things that needed to be changed, secure the things that need to be secured, and bring America back to what it used to be. The greatest nation in the world, the most powerful, the most economical, the most stable, and the most secure nation. This article really points out the time of trouble that we are in.
He seems frustrated with the fact that President Bush said he was going to do "great" things but he never did; his only hope is that Obama can revive our nation and bring the people together for a better cause. He is saying that whether our president is black or white, left or right, rich or poor... we should still set high expectations and stand behind the decisions he is making. Right now, many things are going on; from a depression in the stock market and economy to global warming and Obama has so many things on his agenda to do and the only problem is... he can't fix them over night and not in four years, in fact, probably not in eight but he can only do so much so it is up to the public to elect the next president wisely and to have high expectations, as we did with this one, as to what they plan to do in their time in Oval Office. This article was written in response to the inauguration of President Obama and the mass outpoor of people losing jobs and losing houses. His basic argument is that sure; we've done one thing in changing history by electing an african american president but we don't need to stop there. We need to make history by changing the economy and America as a whole. "Let's strive for a better America..." that to me seems like his major argument
