Ubud Obama and Dissent Event

I tried to take each event, though, for what it was and in that, there was some amazing stuff. The event that was the most interesting was called "Obama and Dissent" One of the panelists was Fatima Bhutto who is the most intelligent, amazing, beautiful woman I have ever been in the presence of (except you mom...) It was a really astounding discussion, especially being one of the only Americans in the audience. Two of the three speakers were not so ecstatic over Obama (to put it nicely) and rightly so. Despite all his talk of inclusive politics and freedom he really has done little, especially oversees. He has sent more troops in, and to Afghanistan*, where Fatima is from.

This is not what we were promised, and as unfair and a huge weight that it may be, when we elected Obama we seem to have elected him for the world, not just the US. People are expecting him to be what he promised, for him to live up to all we were fed during the "Obama-madness" as Fatima put it, and yet that is not what we have gotten, and people need to realize that this man is human. Many people in the audience urged that we give him more time, and I agree that we can't expect things to have turned around yet. I agree completely with this (except the person who said that he can't because he needs to get re-elected first. Wouldn't it be great if we could just re-elect him based on what kind of job he does? Wouldn't this be a better use of his time?) and yet I also agree that time continues to march on. As Fatima said, "We can not let our patience turn into complacency." Yup.

Source:http://balibecca.blogspot.com

*Fanclub note-Fatima is from Pakistan; she was born in Kabul, Afghanistan.