The Barack Obama magic!

 It is in the language he speaks- the language of relevancy, simplicity, and universality. It is also in his ability to inspire hope and a new thing among ordinary mortals. That is why Africa loves him rapturously even after relaxing his stance against homosexuality and abortion. We do not love him because he has some African blood; we love him because he has demonstrated what authentic optimism can do

Yeah, that's me gushing about Obama; he's made history twice for God's sake!!

And it is this optimism that we need to break from the pomposity of demagogues and the terror of autocrats who would rather be driven into rat holes than hand over power voluntarily. We also love the lanky president because he understands the language of Twitter and brags about his wife and daughters in public. This and his easy-going demeanour is the opposite of most of our inept yet self-important officials who think life revolves about wearing drab party colours and licking the president's boots.

There is something greater connected with the man. I call it the magic of love. Sarah Obama captured it succinctly: "He has got the knowledge to love all people; he doesn't have the knowledge of division." This is even better than hope. When we have love, we can walk the talk of togetherness and accomplish much. "Yes we can" then ceases to be another political slogan but words of firepower that inspire the average man to rise up with conviction and start making history as well. We enter any ring fiery like a meteor man and turn the Mitt Romney's of this world into roast meat Obama style!

Then the world will listen when we stand strong like pillars and share about hope and idealism that works. Not about the "blind optimism" which Obama said "ignores the enormity of the tasks ahead or the roadblocks that stand in our path" or the "wishful idealism that allows us to just sit on the side-lines or shirk from a fight" but that "stubborn thing inside us that insists despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting."

Basically the Obama magic comprises courage, hope, love and action. With these we are unstoppable. It doesn't matter the odds against us, whoever we are and wherever we might be, we too shall get there to the very top when we give it our best.