November 6, 2008
Congratulations, President Obama. I am sincerely happy today and I believe you are as well. I'm sure you are exhausted in a variety of ways, and I wish that your grandmother could have seen last night.I am trying to figure out why, exactly, I am happy today.Despite Fox news' pronouncements, racism...
go to article »November 5, 2008
Thanks to living in the outskirts of a more populated metropolitan city, I was fortunate enough not to walk away with a six hour waiting line story. In fact, it took more time to walk to my designated polling center than the wait and voting process combined.When I approached the table to receive my ...
go to article »November 4, 2008
"blah, blah, blah..."Refusing to hide their pathetic desperation, FOX ran another vacuous story about Rashid Khalidi. This time, they cleverly confused the tense in the headline to mislead potential readers into thinking it may actually be a relevant story. The headline, "Khalidi Praises Palestini...
go to article »
It appears that over the past few months I have neglected to forcefully voice my opinion on who I think is the best candidate for the presidency of the United States. This lead the pundits, who are not used to me being silent, to speculate that I was keeping quiet because I have become a republican....
go to article »November 3, 2008
Dear Senator Obama:In your nearly two-year presidential campaign, the words "hope and change," "change and hope" have been your trademark declarations. Yet there is an asymmetry between those objectives and your political character that succumbs to contrary centers of power that want not "hope and c...
go to article »
[Robert Fisk on the Pat Kenny Show in Ireland while driving through the Bandon Roundabout in Cork]PAT KENNY: Barack Obama has promised that he is to engage verbally---ROBERT FISK: (laughs) -- I'm choking slightly when you tell me what Barack Obama thinks. PAT KENNY: No he has said that they will eng...
go to article »
This guest post comes from a fellow "What's Happening" co-host, Suzan, who was on the show when we interviewed researchers on the recent Zogby Poll forecasting Arab-American voting trends for Big Tuesday: Poll shows that Obama leads McCain by a three-to-one margin among Arab-Americans (or.. Obama ea...
go to article »
The National Council for Young Israel (NCYI) sent a letter to the Los Angeles Times, asking the California newspaper to release the tape of farewell party for Columbia University Professor Rashid Khalidi. Khalidi is a known anti-Semite (anti-Israel, anti-Jew even is a better term since Arabs are Se...
go to article »
I have a theory about US presidents and the Middle East: every president since Lyndon Johnson becomes more pro-Israeli than his predecessor--with the exception of George H.W. Bush. So expect Obama to be more pro-Israeli than George W. Bush--his palling around notwithstanding. ...
go to article »Voices Without Votes is a Global Voices project commissioned by Reuters. Original content 
