There is still a chance that Obama will be able to fend of the Romney camp, and sanety can prevail….
the last debate gave some hope.
Obama is back – maby
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Author Archives: Election in the USA
Poverty American style
It is hard to fathom that a country as big and strong as USA can leave so many poor people behind, and I am not talking about criminals drug addicts or lacy people who refuse to work, not even about dum people who has next to nothing to offer to the workplace….
I am talking about the many thousands of hard working Americans who live ini a cheap hotel room with their entire family, or in their car or on the street…
Many of them lost everything due to the resent crises, they had a job and a house and a life.
Now they have nothing and the only help they get is handouts from people who feel like being charitable, the state has no help to offer.
Obama or Romney ?
There is no doubt that the people of USA has an important election ahead of them, and seen from a European point of view it is really scary that Romney could be the winner!!!!
I guess that we should find solace in the fact that we survived 12 years of Bush One + two. if we could make it through that we can certanly make it through 4 years of Romney, but it is painful to think that the most powerful nation in the world, might end up being governed by someone who thinks scaremongering and name calling are legitimate political tools, against his own population and against the rest of the world.
It is hard to understand why the Republicans are trying to make the world into such a terrible place, why would anyone want to do that?
Election time during financial turmoil
US election during one of the worst financial crisis of all time – surely that’s something you don’t see every day. Personally I think it have been liberating to get an election that would take place in the middle of an extreme turmoil, as the election have been driven by the economic policies more than ever before. Election time during financial turmoil & Liquidity Solutions
Election Polls by Strength of States!
Youcalc.com has just made my life a lot easier.
Just like American football and Baseball you almost have to be born in the US to understand their Electoral Voting system. Like, why does it only take 174277 Wyomingans, to make up 1 electoral vote when it takes 664604 Californians to make up the same?
Well, being a big fan of proportional representation, I still don’t get it, but at least I can use a widget from youcalc.com to keep track of how the presidential race is going. Election Polls by Strength of States!
What would the presidential election be without the continuous personal attacks?
Personal attacks seem to be an integral part of the democratic process, when a political leader is elected. Dirt is dug up and thrown in all possible directions.
On the one hand, these personal attacks can be helpful for the electors in order to getting to know the intimate details about the candidates and their characters, their past and moral standards as double standards are revealed and every skeleton in the closet is let out. What would the presidential election be without
Why it must be nice to be friends with Sarah Palin
It must be very nice to be friends with Sarah Palin, as she apperently go to the greatest possible length to be a very good friend.
First National Enquirer dropped a bomb by claiming, that Sarah Palin had an affair with her husbands business partner and good friend.
In a Danish newpaper, a reader, who commented on National Enquirer´s accusations, stated that he very much wanted to do business with Sarah Palin´s husband, if Sarah Palin´s way of caring for her husband´s business partners is that good.
Now she has also been accused of nepotism as it is claimed in The New York Times, that she has given top posts to some of her personal friends and in account has made sure, that they get a much better salary than they would have gotten, if thay had been emplyed in the private sector.
On the other hand, you don´t want to get under Sarah Palin´s feet as that mistake apperently can cost you your job according to the story about Sarah Palin getting her former brother-in-law fired from his job as a police officer.
Maybe some of theese stories turn out to be a hoax. Still, the stories keep rolling, and the Sarah Palin farce is only being reinforced by Sarah Palin´s own self-representation as a woman who believes strongly in Christian values. Maybe she has a special edition of the Bible?
Do pigs wear lipstick?
A pig wearing lipstick is stil a pig!…
The immediaete thougt that crossed my mind after reading this was; Well, what else would it be, but a pig?… At most a painted pig, I guess. Do pigs even at all wear lipstick except from Miss Piggy?
I simply do not get, why the Republicans want to make such a big fuzz out of Barack Obama´s lipstick metaphor. Of course it could obviously be understood as an anwer to Sarah Palin´s hockey mother vs. pittbull metaphor. But so what? Wouldn´t their time be spend better by hiring a communications expert to teach Sarah Palin eloquence and thereby learn to be able to avoid, that her own words fall back on her?
Actually I find it out of place when politicians use bad metaphors like the hockey mother vs. pittbull metaphor. The electors are better off with politicians that speak their minds and do not wrap up their messages and political statements in useless puns or idle talk.
Metaphors and other verbal decoration can be used appropriate when you want to give your words cogency or make something abstarct become visible, and thereby leave a mark in the minds of your audience.
Sarah Palin´s hockey mother vs. pittbull metaphor has gotten a lot of attention now and will be remembered for a long time. But not because it was a good metaphor, because it really wasn´t, but because of Obama´s metaphor of pigs wearing lipstick. So maybe the Republicans should thank Obama for that instead of working themselves all up about it.
Presidential Election Campaign Finance
The Presidential Election is of course a money game, and this time it seams like their is an overwhelming favorite when it comes to funding.
I found this widget at youcalc.com
You can get it too at Presidential Election Campaign Finance
You can get it too at Presidential Election Campaign Finance
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The hope for a better future
Seven years ago an illusion of safety was brutally torn apart by the terror bombing of World Trade Center.
More than 2000 innocent people were killed, and even more suffered a loss strong enough to mark them for life.
And eveything changed that day – not only in The United States but around the world.
On the anniversary for this devastating event, the political opponents Barack Obama and John McCain chose to agree on a temporary ceasefire in the middle of their electioneering campaigns in order to unite in the national commemoration , not as a Democrat and a Republican, but as Americans.
In my opinion it is the onlyn right thing to do not to politicize such an important day and instead let it be emphazised by the memory of the innocent victims and the hope for a better world living in peace without terror and rancorous attacs.
If enemies could have met just as human beings living in the same world seven years ago, maybe there would be no need for a national commemoration on September 11th., innoncent people would not have been killed, and the world would not have been at war.
Of course this is a naive illusion, but it is my hope, that when the American people choose their furture politial leader, they wil elect a person, who can win the sympathy world-wide and thereby be a natural spokesman and pioneer for world peace by changing the image of American foreign politics from war-making to war-preventing.