January 21, 2009 Barack Obama
Like any career, success in politics is due to skill, luck, and tenacity. Barack Obama is blessed with all three. He is one of the most unlikely presidents in our history. He was virtually unknown outside of his home state -- our home state at BuzzFlash -- until he delivered a mesmerizing, energizing, hopeful speech at the Democratic National Convention in 2004. A U.S. Senator for just over two years, he announced his candidacy to lead America as its CEO in February 2007. But Obama knew that he was speaking about himself as much as our nation when he repeatedly declared during his presidential campaign: "this is our moment." It was his moment and a nation's opportunity to take a giant leap forward and lift its feet out of eight years of toxic national government. Running a national campaign is like flying an airplane on one engine and a half a wing. Obama, however, never lost his poise, his direction, his credibility, or his sense of destiny: for himself and for America. Barack Obama offered us not fear or gloom, but a sense of the evolving possibility and transformation that is offered by a democracy in which we are all equal participants. He gave us hope about what we could achieve as a self-governed people creating our own future. Obama is not perfect. He will disappoint us at times, but there is no way to please more than 300 million people. Decisions have to be made, and sometimes they will not break our way. But Barack Hussein Obama is a brilliant man of words, someone who has seen the United States through a special lens and loved it all the more. He had the pluck and audacity to take on the most unlikely of missions: being elected President of the United States against all odds -- and the world will be the better for it. Barack Obama, President of the United States, you are honored with this week's BuzzFlash Wings of Justice Award. * * * Nominated by the BuzzFlash staff.
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