After the historic election of Barack Obama, the first African-American president of the United States , the head of Britain ’s equality watchdog has claimed that Britain is not ready to do the same. This is not due to racism from the British voters, but from within the political parties. No British Obama.
The future of America, and indeed also the world, looks a whole lot brighter after Barack Obama is elected as the 44th president. Thankfully, the election night didn’t offer us any excitement as it became clear early on that McCain didn’t really stand a chance against Obama, who has received high praise for his well-run campaign. Phew!
As usual it became Tuesday 4th November in Europe before America, but what kind of a result are we hoping for here?
I can’t say for sure, but I can say that the one McCain supporter I have met, changed his mind the moment Palin was selected as his Vice President candidate. So that should give a general impression on what Europe hopes for. But, since it is all out of our hands anyway, we can all just lean back, cross everything we have to cross and relax, while we enjoy something this campaign has had more of than any other before it. And that is Comedy! The world holds its collective breath.
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
An uncomfortable case has emerged for Barack Obama. In the last days leading up to the election, this couldn’t have come at a worse time. Barack Obama’s aunt in an illegal immigrant. Nobody yet knows how this came to light, but the republicans will have a field day, knowing how important immigration is to the majority of Americans who will vote on Tuesday. Troubles for Obama?
The absence of Bill Clinton from Barack Obama’s campaign has been a problem for months. The public support and help from the last democratic president in indisputably a very powerful tool when trying to become the next one. So when the two most powerful men in the Democratic Party stood side by side at a huge joint rally in the crucial swing state of Florida, it seems like they have finally buried the hatchet. The aim was to show togetherness and a combined aim in the last few days of campaigning. Obama and Clinton, together at last.
Both Barack Obama and John McCain were campaigning in Pennsylvania Tuesday. The state is important for both parties, but especially for the Republicans who lost the state four years ago. Some analysts thinks he needs to win here to have any chance of winning the election in a weeks time.
McCain had planned to hold two rallies, one indoors and one outdoors, both in the town of Hersey. Barack Obama had an outdoor rally planned in Chester. The weather was awful in both towns, with rain, wind and sleet. This was a bit on the chilly side for the 72 year old (who might be prone to getting an autumn cold?), so he cancelled the outdoor rally, making do with just the indoor one. Obama, on the other hand, kept his promised appearance to the delight of thousands of wet and cold voters. The rain stopped McCain.
A few days after the ‘Gucci’ storm, Sarah Palin is still making headlines. And that is not good for John McCain. She has just finished giving evidence, behind closed doors, about her apparent misuse of power when firing an official in Alaska. If that wasn’t bad enough, she will not brand those who bomb abortion centers as terrorists.
Palin’s strong stand against abortion is well documented. Her own family has often been at the centre of her fight against the pro-choice movement; her youngest son has Downs’s syndrome and her teenage daughter is pregnant, but not married. More trouble for the McCain/Palin campaign.
Poor John McCain. He was doomed from the start, wasn’t he. After the most disastrous 8 years in the history of the White House it must be very, very hard indeed to get people to vote for someone from the same party. And while he’s at it, he probably feels pretty bad. McCain’s hopeless fight.
’I like being the underdog’, says John McCain, who seems to see himself like a straight talking, shooting from the hip kind of maverick. ‘Every time I get ahead I mess it up, so being the underdog suits me well’.
John McCain can’t be reading the same newspapers as the rest of the world, because he is confident it will be a close race on the 4th November. Hasn’t he noticed that Obama has had a solid lead on him for weeks now? According to CNN’s latest, Obama has 49 percent to McCain’s 43. We’ve all seen them much, much closer, so I for one don’t believe in the thriller finish he promises. The confident underdog.