Obama Cannot Save Us From Ourselves – by Johann N. Neem On July 17, former President Barack Obama emerged from relative quiet to deliver the Nelson Mandela lecture in Johannesburg at the invitation—or, as Obama put it, the insistence—of Mandela’s widow Graça Machel. What a breath of fresh air it was to hear Obama. In many ways, he is the best of what America offers. Born of an immigrant father and a midwestern mother in the Pacific state of Hawai’i, President Obama’s life story embodies what we aspire to be. But most of all, his intellect. At a time when Read more