A beaming and seemingly confident Barack Obama talks with his staff before a rally at the Bank Atlantic Center Arena in Sunrise, Florida. °
I too am confident that Obama will be elected president of the United States tomorrow; that he will replace bumbling and clueless George W Bush who almost brought the United States to its knees and who, with the help of Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, abetted by Tony Blair, the British liar par excellence, has made the world a Christian extremist-Islamic fundamentalist battlefield, a much less safe place to live in.
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Although Mr Obama is the exact opposite of Mr Bush, and despite his intellectual brilliance, his great analytical mind, his ability to cope under extreme pressure, I won't expect Mr Obama to solve the ills that's plagued Bush's and Fox News' America. Nor do I believe he will be able to wipe away the global economic meltdown that was started by American financial and economic institutions in one go -- not in one hundred days and not even in a couple of hundred days, but I do believe he will be able to regain the moral high ground and the good will that America lost because of the inept Bush presidency. He will restore world confidence in America and will regain the trust and respect of hundreds of millions of people in the United States. And that will be a great judicious start...
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How ironic that a little less than fifty years ago, the likes of Mr Obama would not have been allowed to sit on a bus along with the white folks in the South or would have been physically abused and refused entrance in an all-white university. How ironic too that a president who hails from the South and who has failed America and the world will now be replaced by a coloured man! When that finally happens, i.e., when he beats the Republican Party's John McCain on November 4, this entire US election season's clamour for change will at last have found its true meaning.
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Bonne chance Monsieur Obama!
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A very sad update (23h07 Paris time): I have just read in Daily Kos that Sen Obama's grandmother Madelyn Dunham has just died. 'Toot' as Sen Obama fondly called her died ater a battle with cancer. How sad and tragic that she did not live to see the day her grandson might be proclaimed the next president of the United States.
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Condolences to Senator Obama, to his sister Maya Soetoro-Ng and their families.
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"We are watching this election in the U.S. and hoping for the new government to continue the strong ties." Gloria Arroyo
Hi eq!
Extraordinary that that moral dwarf should have the gall to think she counts at all in the scheme of things! Plain unadulterated cow dung hubris.
couldnt agree more. obama it will be. we may hate to admit it, but in a way, this too is our election. we just dont get to vote.
Hi elay! Pleased to see that you're back and flying!!!
Right you are -- Obama's victory will be good for the world, what's sad is that in a Gallup polling of nations, it appears that the Philippines voted heavily for McCain.
Link here: If the world could vote
(Btw, my beef is against Gloria making all the hubris talk as if she held the moral high ground to be able to make pronouncements of the sort -- I just so despise her!)
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