Posted by
John Liebhardt
· 11:12 pm
· Israel · Kenya · Puerto Rico (U.S.) · South Africa · Turkey
Before yesterday, here’s a list of things most of us knew about Michelle Obama. She is a Chicago-born, Harvard-educated lawyer.
Her first real date with Barack Obama was to see Spike Lee’s movie “Do the Right Thing.”
The magazine Vanity Fair recently rated her one of the best dressed women in the world, joining “French first lady Carla Bruni, Kate Middleton, Sarah Jessica Parker, Tilda Swinton, Daniel Craig and Angelina Jolie.” In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, she said, “For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country.” That’s about it. On the first night of Democratic Convention, Michelle Obama spoke to a packed Pepsi Center and helped fill us in on her world and her thinking. One may ask: Why should we focus so much on a candidate’s wife? The answer to that question, in some minds, is easy.
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Posted by
John Liebhardt
· 2:59 pm
· Australia · Germany · Iraq · Israel · Lebanon · Palestine · Serbia · Turkey
It’s morning in America. After the initial shock, the dust seems to have settled. The United States -- and the rest of the world -- has come to terms with the fact that presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama has named Delaware Senator Joe Biden as his running mate. The Obama-Biden ticket will now face presumptive Republican nominee John McCain and his as-yet-unnamed sidekick to see who will become the next President of the United States. Bloggers of all stripes have moved passed their initial gut reactions on the freshly minted Democratic ticket and have started to formulate more solid opinions based on fact. That’s what covering politics is all about, isn’t it?
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Delaware Senator Joe Biden will be Barack Obama's running mate. That's all we need, another senator. No Governors (the Executive Branch remember???) yet...
For the first time in a long time, both of the presidential candidates are senators.
More later on Biden, no doubt selected for his foreig...
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Here in America, as it should be everywhere else (Turkey ... are you listening?), there is separation of church and state, but not of faith and politics.
A few miles from where I live is the 20,000 member Saddleback mega church. And tonight, its pastor Rev. Rick Warren is interviewing both senato...
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Here in America, as it should be everywhere else (Turkey ... are you listening?), there is separation of church and state, but not of faith and politics.
A few miles from where I live is the 20,000 member Saddleback mega church. And tonight, its pastor Rev. Rick Warren is interviewing both senato...
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Posted by
Onnik Krikorian
· 12:12 am
· Armenia · Azerbaijan · Turkey
Writing for Voices Without Votes in June, Jillian York introduced readers to Facebook's Armenians for Obama and some of what was being said on the social networking site. Since then, however, other Facebook Groups have sprung up which seem to identify a strong backing from Armenians, both inside and outside the republic, for the Democratic candidate in the November 4 U.S. Presidential Election.
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Blogian interviews the acting U.S. Ambassador to Armenia, Chargé d’Affaires Joseph Pennington. In an extended entry, the blog details some of the main points from the interview which includes reference to Armenian-Turkish relations, the post-election situation in the country and a recent visit by...
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Obama is visiting the middle East soon insh Allah and with a quick look to his scheduled visit ,I found that my country Egypt , a leading power in the region is not included. The countries that he is going to visit are : Iraq “to meet with the troops”, Israel “to calm down the Jewish lobby...
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Posted by
Jillian York
· 1:44 pm
· Algeria · Turkey · U.S.A.
On June 6, 2008, Michael Rubin, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, wrote an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal in which he referred to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan as "Turkey's Putin" and a dictator. The piece, re-posted on the Middle East Forum, refers to ...
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