Profile and the Ideology of Barrack Hussein Obama
evening of November 6, 2012, Obama was announced the winner of the election, gaining a second four-year term as president. Early election results indicated a
close race. By midnight on Election Day, however, Obama had received more than 270 electoral votes
—the number of votes required to win a U.S. presidential election; later results showed that the president had won nearly 60 percent of the
electoral vote, as well as the popular vote by more than 1 million ballots. Barack Obama officially began his second term on January 21, 2013. The
inauguration was held on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Obama told the crowd gathered in front of the U.S. Capitol building. In his inaugural address, Obama
called the nation to action on such issues as climate change, health care and marriage equality. In sum, Obama really takes the equality among his citizen as
the value that every individual should be taken for granted in order to achieve the liberty as the way to make true of what so called by the American Dreams. He
takes a position that is to support the available shared beliefs ideology in the United States. He knows exactly what words to be put in his address that can give
the sense of involvement in the mind of th e citizens. This may be one of Obama‘s
ways to win the heart of the citizens. Avner Falk 2010 says:
―Obama knows the grave danger posed by political ideologies. They are rigid, trapped in black-and-white, either-or, us-and-them thinking, and he must steer clear of any ideology,
whether all-liberal or all-conservative. Values, in contrast, are flexible, and they adapt themselves to people‘s real needs and feelings. He believes that the difference between
values and ideologies was crucial: values were applied to facts, whereas ideology ignores facts that call it into question
.‖ Falk, 2010: 286
From the citation, it is known that Obama as a politician fully understands the concept of ideology and its importance in his political strategy. Obama is in the
middle of conservatism and the liberalism but his nationalism seems to be his
pride in being an American. Nationalism focuses upon two notions. First is the attitude that the members of a nation have when they care about their national
identity. Second are the actions that the members of a nation take when seeking to achieve some form of political sovereignty.
From those focuses, Obama has shown the first and the second notions. His attitude toward his national identity has spoken in his address. He says,
―Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America 42, XI, a.
‖ He is the president of the United States and this quoted address really represents his national identity. By saying so,
as the member of American society, he sustains his political autonomy in reforming the nation in the way he proposes.
As an American, where a republic maintains the democracy, Obama occurs to hold the democratic ideal of liberal democracy. In liberal democracy, the
liberty of individual is stressed and the majority of people rule the country as long as the majority does not try to deprive individuals or the minorities of their basic
rights. There are three rights held by this ideal. They are the rights to speak, to run public office, and to own property. Ball and Dagger, 2007