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The National Election of 2008?
Special comment for and to: We, the People
Take a coin and flip it into the air as many times as you wish; you are going to get only one of two choices. Such could describe the presidential election of 2008. While any number of candidates may have been in the race, only two of them were really of any significance. In actuality, only one of the two was really the candidate. Now we are talking about all of the predictions, the polls, the analyses, and the rhetoric that were being uttered, but only one of the involved contestants had all of the necessary “everything” to walk into the victory circle. We are talking about Hillary Clinton.
Then what happened? Here again is one of those simple and elementary arithmetic problems that are self-explanatory. You see, when Hillary Clinton announced her entry as a candidate, it was Bill Clinton who jumped into center stage, opened his mouth as wide as the Pacific Ocean, and made comments as some kind of authority. At that precise moment, it would have been better for Hillary Clinton to have withdrawn her candidacy, packed her bags, and gone home. The point is that Bill Clinton, standing there in center stage, brought back the impeachment trial, the Kenneth Starr revelations, the attack on bin Laden’s training camp resulting in religious war, and the subsequent reprisal of 9/11. All of that negative and troublesome recollection was too much to overcome, even for the well-prepared and most efficient Hillary Clinton. Had Bill Clinton gone and hidden under the bed until the polls closed on Election Day, Hillary Clinton would today be the President of the United States. Unfortunately for her, she never regained her composure or the capability to be herself.
Thus the door was opened for a miracle, or more realistically, the third chapter of Ecclesiastes took center stage with its declaration that, “to everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heavens.” I hope we give our undivided attention to the dignified and superb drama that unfolded. From out of nowhere came the child born under the most adverse conditions, raised in circumstances ‘impossible’ to overcome, yet pushed, pulled and driven to be in position for the miracle. Of course, we are talking about Barack Obama. Whatever might be your conclusion as to what happened to cause the result of the Presidential Election of 2008, you must conclude that no height is impossible to reach if you are willing to count the cost and pay the price; or, there just might be a God somewhere.
