Written by Athena Fleming

Change. For America, this is exactly what the doctor has in order. Senator Barack Obama is our ambassador to change and everything about his past has prepared him to represent you and me as our next president of the United States.

Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, and he learned the value of hard work from the examples of his single working mother and grandparents. He received a quality education from Columbia University and went to Harvard Law School. But this made no difference to his constituents in Illinois because they weren’t looking for another suit with broken promises. They elected Obama because to them, he represented hope.

For the last 10 years in public office, Obama has been a beacon of reform. He has broken party lines and gained bipartisan support for legislation for better health laws and support for working families.

To ensure his ability to facilitate change, Obama has always chosen to run his campaign without the sway of lobbyists and federal funding. He has united the people of America to employ grass-root efforts to get his message out. Mothers, firefighters, teachers and union workers are recognizing the necessity to speak up for themselves and, for the first time, someone in Washington, D.C. is listening.

I encourage Biola to follow America’s example and wake up! Obama has proven with past actions that he can change America. We too can make history as a student body that is dedicated to finding the facts and deciding for ourselves who we want to represent us without the help of the media and our professors. We can use the values that we have acquired on campus and burst the “Biola bubble” to find the greater education that awaits us when we do.