“Barack Obama is the only candidate who can give us 21st-century solutions to 21st-century threats,” Samantha Power, Lindh professor of practice of global leadership and public policy said.
U.S. Senator Barack Obama may be the youngest major contender vying for the Democratic presidential nomination, but three prominent Harvard faculty members said yesterday that the 45-year old’s life experiences, particularly his time overseas, give him an edge over his older competitors.
“Barack Obama is the only candidate who can give us 21st-century solutions to 21st-century threats,” foreign policy scholar Samantha Power said at an event last night for Obama. “One cannot overstate how important it is to have someone in office who has lived abroad and can see the United States from the inside out and from the outside in."
Power took a leave of absense from KSG last year to advise the Obama campaign on foreign policy.
“The thing that struck you about Barack back then was that he seemed very different,” Professor of Law Kenneth W. Mack said. “He seemed like he was a little bit older, a littler bit wiser, and a little bit better read in the ways of the world.”
Kennedy School Lecturer in Public Policy Marshall L. Ganz said “Obama’s life experience in particular equips him to understand the kinds of ways in which we need to bring a very diverse set of people and interests together around a fundamental group of values—compassion, generosity and tolerance.”
Obama rakes in $700,000 to $1 million in NYC
Barack raised an estimated $700,000 to $1 million in Hillary Clinton's home turf according to NYC bundlers yesterday.
One source said that future NYC fundraisers are already in the works and that a Washington event has tripled its attendance after Obama announced his fundraising success.
It does seem that many people who were on the sidelines before are contributing to the campaign now. Also, many supporters of other candidates may be hedging their bets by throwing some money in Obama's direction.
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