November 5, 2008
Tomorrow, the entire world waits for history to be made. For the first time in its 200+ years of independence, the United States of America could have an African American as president. It will be historical indeed as for the first time ever, a person of colour - a minority - will lead the most power...
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Despite the clear evidence provided by the Iraq adventure and its fallout of the limits of American power in the Middle East, the new president will assume control of the world’s only superpower, with the global ambitions and huge military budget to match. This ensures that American policy will co...
go to article »November 4, 2008
There is a post-modern American presidential virus (I call it ArmGenDen-itis) that infects US Congressmen and President-elects immediately after their election victories – the criminal denial of the attempted Genocide of the Armenians in 1915 by the Ottoman elite of the Young Turks. When...
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Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: It's finally here, the US presidency election. Yesterday, CNN showed newsreels of the mood at the hometown of Obama's late father in Africa. Needless to say, villagers in Kenya are already partying. After all, a win for Obama will only create history in USA but also Kenya....
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US '08 Elections My opinion on the USA elections? I don't care. It doesn't matter who wins. Whoever wins will not affect the Philippines or the whole world AT ALL. Obama or McCain will not be able to solve and help us with our problems here. USA claims that they take care of the whole world. They c...
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No votes have been cast! Dang! I'm surrounded by deeply entrenched McCain supporters over here! This was one of the questions that they ambushed me with. "What will Obama do for you?" As the vocal onslaught progressed between the McCain supporters and the SINGLE Obama supporter. I thought i...
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After the daily speech about the Empire, the elections, and the possibility that the United States could have what some call "their own Chavez," a lot of blogs dedicated some space on the expectation that many parts of the world share today's excitement with the States. Bloggers are expressing online what they feel about both candidates, while some others see Obama as a big possibility for change inside and outside the country. The dark, humorous tone, so characteristically Venezuelan, never ceases to be contained inside the posts...
The fact that an African-American has been chosen as the presidential candidate of a major political party is already a great achievement for the United States of America that gave its colored minority much of their freedoms only some forty years ago. The idea that Barack Obama, the son of a Ken...
go to article »November 3, 2008
It all seemed to be going so well. A quick war toppling an oppressive regime to free the poor masses from tyranny, a sound plan surely… However, all did not go quite according to plan, the oppressed masses sparked a bloody insurgency and the U.S. death toll grew higher by the day, the week, the mo...
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President of Earth elections *Disclaimer: It might not appear that way, but this post is more about perception than politics. Jowett pointed me to this CNN blog that said Filipinos prefer McCain over Obama. Citizens of the Philippines and Georgia were the only ones who preferred McCain to O...
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