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USA has president elect Obama

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 08:58:00 -0300

It was a historic night last night for sure in a couple of different ways.

History was made as the USA dropped some of it's historical baggage by electing the first african-american president.

History was also made in the the democrats victory was quite large... winning over some traditional "red" states.

The consensus in the voting results last night seem to indicate that the greater population wanted a resounding change.... the message should be heard by the republicans as such I would think.

I didn't get to watch Obama's speech.... as I feel asleep on my couch (it was late!!!)... but I did catch McCain's speech.

I thought McCain was well spoken and very respectful.... last night during his speech I found myself really liking him more then I had during this election season. I really thought he spoke well of Obama, of putting their (parties, partisans) differences aside and getting to work on fixing their problems (economy, jobs....etc).

Some of the class that McCain showed wasn't shared by some of his crowd who would start to boo as he talked of supporting his new president. But every time they started, he shushed them...

After all was said and done, I think the change they voted for last night was an important one. If I had been american, I would have likely voted for Obama myself. Regardless, I was very happy to see that McCain was totally classy in his final speech and his expressions of unity are the expression much needed in the tough times at hand and near.

Both of these men (Obama and McCain) deserve respect, as I believe that as all the campaign dust has settled, both seemed to really have an honest desire to serve their country.

Congrats to Obama as the new president elect and also congrats to McCain for the fine example of the continual service he's shown towards his country no matter the outcome.

Election day in the USA

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 10:16:00 -0300

(man that rhymes!)

That's right folks.

Today, I think the US will have a very high voter turn out today as people have been hit by several issues in the last years....

I'm sure George Bush is watching from some undisclosed area and reminissing on the years gone by.

Back to McCain VS Obama.... Obama has been in the lead in polls but not really an insurmountable lead when you figure in the % of error from polling.

I'm just kinda wondering what will happen when it's all done... as there are die hard supporters on both sides.

Some really don't want McCain, and some really don't want Obama.

Maybe they should all vote for Nader!

Anyways.... I'm watching...

American presidential debate almost on

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:11:00 -0300

Even though I'm sitting here on PEI.... in Canada. I follow international news and since the presidential process has been roaring for about a year and a half in the states (guess they really really really can't wait to say bye bye to Bush) I've been following all the rucuss.

I guess maybe I watch CNN a bit too much (ok, there I admitted it).

All the details can be found over here on CNN's website.

One thing I wonder about tonight's extravaganza is just how much question jumping..... or avoiding...... or answering a question with another subject they have on the agenda will happen.

That's something that always tires me out when listening to some of these debates.... in that some polititians are just so good at giving a totally oblivious sounding blurb to the subject of the question that was asked of them.

But I suppose like so many... I'll be watching.

Let it begin!

International tensions

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 23:05:00 -0300

I've been watching less news lately... I used to watch the news quite a bit. I generally like being somewhat aware of what's going on.... even though that I believe "some" news is spun in some way....

Reading news involving international tensions, like military confrontations or "near" confrontations usually leaves me wondering just what happens that we never hear about.

Seems as though some old US - Russia stuff has been appearing again...

Here's an article on some Air force interceptions. Kinda makes you wonder what the intentions are, if there are intentions behind some of these incidents... and even though it's reported, what actually happened.

(CNN article)