November 26, 2008
The New Yorker thinks all these big names might work: The team of Barack (Grandpa Was a Muslim) Obama, Hillary (I’m a Clinton) Clinton, and Rahm (Israel) Emanuel (that’s his real middle name! and he was a volunteer with the I.D.F. during the 1991 Gulf War!), with Joe Biden and Bill Clinton pitch...
go to article »November 22, 2008
As speculation mounts that Hillary Clinton is to be offered the post of Secretary of State, there have been a slew of articles and opinions on whether Obama is making the right choice. Karen Tumulty and Massimo Calabresi at Time take the view that Hillary will make a good Secretary of State. As a e...
go to article »November 20, 2008
AP reports: Al-Qaida’s No. 2 leader used a racial epithet to insult Barack Obama in a message posted Wednesday, using a demeaning racial term implying that the president-elect is a black American who does the bidding of whites. The message appeared chiefly aimed at persuading Muslims and Arabs...
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Just when things were looking up for the world as it sees the last of Bush, the US President has decided to leave an ever-stronger and more lasting legacy by working to dismantle at least 10 major environmental safeguards, some of which include: Exempting Industrial-size animal farms from the Clean ...
go to article »November 19, 2008
Heh. President-elect Barack Obama has made his first publicly-known cabinet appointment: Eric Holder will be attorney-general, with a priority to close down Guantanamo Bay. Mr Holder is also the first African-American to be appointed AG. No doubt, for some this will re-inforce their fears that Obama...
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California is being rocked with protests against Proposition 8 - a measure that Californians passed in a statewide vote during the national elections - banning gay marriage. Last weekend protests were even held across the country demanding a change in the law so gays could marry. Of course, I believ...
go to article »November 18, 2008
My first introduction to Barack Obama, like many others was at the Democratic Convention in July of 2004 when he delivered the keynote address. He knew then as he knows now, when he said "Tonight is a particular honor for me because, let's face it, my presence on this stage is pretty unlikely." He i...
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USAID, the independent federal government agency that provides humanitarian and development asistance under the foreign policy guidance of the Secretary of State spent $2.4 billion across the whole of the Middle East in 2007, including all reconstruction efforts in Iraq. The Bush administration did ...
go to article »November 17, 2008
One more article on Barack Obama, and certainly not once more on Barack Obama and U.S. elections. On the day when Barack Obama won the elections, I was in Colombo and all the Newspapers there screamed, “America creates history with its first Black President”, as if blacks were substanda...
go to article »November 16, 2008
I’ve come in for a bit of flack for raining on John Pilger’s parade so dismissively below. So let me try and justify some of this, though I’m planning a bigger piece on Managing Expectations of Obama later anyway. I’m not in favour of constantly picking fights with writers on...
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