March 11, 2008
Women have the same set of feathers. Well, not generally, but metaphorically--since all women have a distinctive personality, like men of course. But one cannot take away the categorical representation of gender in the society. My main issue here tackles the candidacy of Hillary Clinton--as she is...
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My wife Mara and I have been ecstatic about the idea of Barack Obama as the first person of color to become president of the United States. But she sadly pointed out something recently: Chances are that many Filipinos will not vote for a black person. I hope she’s wrong. But there’s a basis for ...
go to article »March 10, 2008
22,755 Americans living abroad cast votes in the Democrats Abroad primaries. The map below demonstrates that Americans living in most countries favoured Obama. Although The World Wants Obama is most interested in the views of non-Americans, these results reinforce the evidence we've gathered of Sena...
go to article »February 28, 2008
I told myself I wouldn't blog about how much I've been following the US Elections, but I stumbled accross something today called "Voices Without Votes". It's about non-Americans who care about the 2008 Presidential Campaign. Why should we care? "Because America is the world superpower and what happe...
go to article »February 23, 2008
It surprises me that press commentators, even unfriendly ones, have been willing to accept Hillary Clinton’s self evaluation of her alleged competence, hard work and attention to detail at face value. I don’t know about you, but every time I hear her in this vein I am reminded of another preside...
go to article »February 22, 2008
Barack Obama’s crushing victory in the Wisconsin primary confirms him as the favorite to become the next president of the US. That possibility is so amazing to me that I have trouble taking it in. In less than a year, George W. Bush may just be an unpleasant memory and we may have an American pres...
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This subject has been covered many times, but I still find the easy categorization of Barack Obama as “black” quite weird. Barack’s mum is as white as mine. By calling him “black” it seems that Americans (i) can’t get out of their racial filing cabinet, they have to label the guy somehow...
go to article »February 17, 2008
It has been said time and again that Filipinos, wherever they are, are one of the most political people in the world. Politics, especially Philippine Politics, is oftentimes viewed with the same interest and gusto as any television show or series. It has, simply, become part of our everyday life and...
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Oh, all right, so he’s not Filipino. But he did live in Indonesia which is close enough, right? He also grew up in Hawaii, a state where the Pinoy community is huge and has even had a Pinoy governor. And if the Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison can claim that Bill Clinton was the first Af...
go to article »February 13, 2008
Hillary Clinton, Barrack Obama and the march to freedom of the Filipinos in Diaspora. The current electoral contest between Senator Hillary Clinton of New York and Senator Barack Obama of Illinois is turning into a very hot issue among the Filams here in the East Coast. I noticed that among the c...
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