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May 16, 2008

Say NO to politics on the week-ends…

Aggregated from: Buckaroo Thandi

How was your week-end? I had a fabulous one, spent a lot of time not thinking about our world's decay...I save that for Mondays. Parliament is still stalling, Southern Rhodesia is still sorting out who's worth being President and Obama is not a clear winner yet. So what else is new? I am keeping ...

Beneath Obama’s rebuke of Jeremiah Wright: Is a new global consciousness afoot?

Aggregated from: Afrika-Aphukira

When I learned that the Reverend Dr. Jeremiah Wright was going to give a speech at Michigan State University on February 7th, I spread the word to friends and colleagues I knew would love to hear Barack Obama’s pastor speak. Of the half dozen or so people I mentioned his name to, none of them had ...

The US primary Elections and my support for Obama

Aggregated from: Boni Dulani

A number of people have asked me to speed up the entries on the US presidential elections. Here's my first entry, which ends with my endorsement of Barack Obama. The process of picking up the candidates Unlike in our mother Malawi, where all the main parties have effectively picked their candi...

The People vs. West Virginia

Aggregated from: A Political Glimpse from Ireland

Well I have been thinking about reorganizing the sidebar of this blog to move up the Twitter Applet so that more people can take notice of it. I am not sure if many people are aware of Twitter but the nice thing for me is that I can blog my thoughts from my mobile if I am out and about. I have a r...

McCain Flip Flops on Hamas

Aggregated from: Darryl Wolk Blog

McCain Flip Flops on HamasIn an interview two years ago, Sen. John McCain had a different stance on whether Hamas should deal with the U.S.McCain on Hamas in 2006: Going to Have to Deal With ThemJohn McCain on Hamas in 2006Bush Compares Obama to Nazi AppeasersWhile delivering an address before the I...

Mad At Hillary | SNL Harpoons Hillary Clinton

Aggregated from: The Haitian Blogger

This Saturday Night Live sketch is not pulling any punches. Looks like the Clintons are pissing off more people. They are standing in the glaring light of their own classless blind ambition.The Clintons are gambling that the superdelegates will buy the arguments that 1) her supporters are racist and...

A Burning Hat Issue

Aggregated from: My Right Word

Reports the NYT:- President Bush used a speech to the Israeli Parliament on Thursday to liken those who would negotiate with “terrorists and radicals” to appeasers of the Nazis — a remark widely interpreted as a rebuke to Senator Barack Obama, who has advocated greater engagement with countri...

Obama fires back hard at Bush/McCain

Aggregated from: Darryl Wolk Blog

Obama fires back hard at Bush/McCain “I’m running for president to change course, not to continue George Bush’s course.”Speaking before an audience in Watertown, South Dakota, Barack Obama responded to President Bush's extreme attacks yesterday....

Global: Obama An Apostate?

On May 12, the New York Times published an op-ed by one Edward N. Luttwak from Chevy Chase, Maryland entitled “President Apostate?” Luttwak's op-ed piece details Obama's relationship with Islam (his father, born Muslim, renounced the religion, and Obama became a Christian early in life) and the effects that it could have on global politics and the United States' relations with predominantly Muslim countries.

Obama - America Can't Afford 4 More Years of George Bush

Aggregated from: Darryl Wolk Blog

Obama - America Can't Afford 4 More Years of George BushSen. Barack Obama, campaigning in Missouri, says that a McCain presidency would be a third Bush term. This will be a strong campaign message in November. Include the economy and Iraq and I see no way McCain can win.-Darryl...