in the aftermath of GOP’s embarrassing loss of the House and possibly the Senate, Rumsfeld, US Secretary of Defense has decided to call it a quit! Only weeks ago, Bush offered his unrelenting support to the war’s architect by insisting that Rumsfeld will serve till the end.
this is a very smart move of Bush in a renewed call for bipartisan cooperation. will be interesting to see how his last two years pan out….
Virginia is still too close to call! GOP’s 49 vs DNC’s 50 (Cheney with Casting Vote)
now im really worried about my paper tomm… didnt study the entire nite… happy with DNC takin back the house… the Senate race is still on with 3 undecided – 3 were lost to DNC already!
now off to dinner and then lib for the final push on Get-Out-To-Study Machine (parody of GOP’s machine)!
i cant seem to get my priority right this time: (a) studyin for my paper or (b) transformin myself to be the couch potato for the midterm election.
i honestly prefer the latter but guilt trip and my hatred towards this subject is constantly fightin within me.
for the next 36 hours, option (b) i shall choose!
surprise surprise… Saddam Hussein was found guilty and sentenced to death earlier today – two days before the US midterm election. you wonder sometimes whether it’s just a coincidence. i dont want to analyse whether capital punishment is an appropriate punishment for him because you already know my stance on death penalty. he should have been left to rot in jail.
keeping with the theme, i recently succumbed to temptation of study’s procrastination and watched HBO’s Hacking Democracy which was released a week before the election. I really dont know what to say. I’m continually amazed that the so-called world’s greatest democracy could not even have a ‘proper’ voting/election system. Why cant they have an independent body created just to run the election. Australia has it. So does Indonesia. Instead they have partisan Secretary of State who is responsible for the election.
Check out black box voting – a not for profit organisation created by ordinary ‘grandma activist’ to bring awareness and address this electronic voting issue. R-E-S-P-E-C-T to her!
in the most astounding way possible, the failed-presidential candidate John ‘Flip-flopper’ Kerry gave the Republican party the ammunition it needs to fight back struggling poll numbers. His recent faux pas confirmed everyone’s worst fear – his ‘reporting for duty’ stunt act at the Democratic Convention in 2004 was just a flip-flop attempt at garnishing his terrible national security’s record.
You probably have heard the now famous botched-joke he gave to students in California:
“You know education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.”
While trying to duck the political ramification by issuing statement that the joke was intended for the Commander-in-Chief, any Tom Dick and Harry knows that this is a direct insult to the US military serving in Iraq.
Stupid..just plain stupid!
I was hoping for the return of the Democrats to both Houses and now one thing is certain, if this thing is not subdued quickly (and i doubt it will be), the Democrat will only be likely to return only to the House..not the Senate.
I prefer a divided Congress because they are good for the economy (less pork-barrel spending) and to some extent greater accountability & check-and-balance…
Thank you Mr. Flip-flopper…. you did it again… ‘brilliantly’ this time! URGH
He must now apologise sincerely to the troops and the families…. i read once, “Anyone who can’t admit when they are wrong, are usually wrong more than they can admit.”
update: while it’s a bit late, it’s good to see that the flip-flopper has recognised his failing and apologise.
Barack Obama, the US senator from Illinois, has been under my radar for several months. He is the only African American currently serving the US Senate. Recently, his popularity shoot up. Thanks to his much publicised upcoming book release – ‘The Audacity of Hope’ in October. He is currently on the cover of Time.
I have never been so energised about a Democrat since Wesley Clarke. This guy is beyond me. He is a man of character and when you see him speak, (i dont know about you), he blows my mind. He has an unbelievable savoir-faire that transcends party lines, racial tones, the rich and the poor.
He was the State Senator when he delivered the now infamous Democratic National Convention speech in 2004 (i like every bit except when he started to praise the flip-flopper). I have attached at the bottom, for your convenience, two parts of the full speech!
Finally… there is a real alternative from the Blue Land for the 2008 Presidential Election (Clinton-lovers, please do persuade the Lucifer from ‘occupying’ the White House again!).
I hope he runs. Because it will be an interesting match that i really want to see. Him vs McCain/Giuliani/Rice.
This might be premature as I have barely scratched the tip of the iceberg of his various political stands and policies, but what the hell…….Barack Obama for 2008!
Clinton is upset! I have never seen him so animated and so red-faced in any of his public appearances. But it took Christ Wallace to set the fire burning…..Clinton was so upset that he accused Christ of doing ‘conservative hit job’!
You can get the transcript of the interview from Fox News by clicking here.
But obviously, nothing beat watching the interview directly to learn how angry Clinton was….just go to FoxNews.com and search for the most watched video!!! (hint: starts with ‘Heated Discussion’ and just let it runs several videos with ads in between – dont bother with Google Video or YouTube.. they are copyrighted)
in a Q&A session at the Indonesia World Affairs Council, US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice was asked THE QUESTION by a businessman:
My second question is, if asked, are you going to run for President of the United States?
To which, she replied:
On your second question, no, not likely in my lifetime.
A day earlier, US First Lady, Mrs Laura Bush, was asked if the US was prepared to have a woman in the Oval Office and she replied: “Sure, absolutely. I’m voting for the Republican woman.”
The Southern Republican Leadership Conference is in session. Hosted in Tennessee, the home for a presidential aspirant Sen Bill Frist, it was designed to ‘pick’ the next republican nominee (informally), as a warm up the the Republican Primaries in ‘08.
But McCain ’spoilt’ it (for whatever reasons – well, he might not be confident to win in, noting it was Frist’s home state), seeing that Bush is his lowest rating ever, by asking the delegates to write-in the name of President Bush, as a sign of support and unity for the ‘06 mid election. The result won’t be known till tomm, but what would be interesting to see is whether those write-ins will yield higher poll for THE president than the aspirants.
there are few books that have changed how i view the world. i have always suspected the so-called ‘economic imperialism’ by the US to the less-developed countries were performed by her agents – the World Bank and the IMF. The Globalization and Its Discontents by Stiglits gave me the first vindication. I respect no other than an honest opinion from an ex-insider.
I have just finished reading John Perkin’s Confessions of an Economic Hit Man and wow!!! You cannot believe it. I am vindicated for the second time! Perkin was an EHM himself. He was part of the system. You cannot get a better source than that.
The scheme is easy:
For those who continually deny that imperialism is pretty much the epic of US foreign policy, i have nothing to say but to pray for your naive soul.
This is a MUST read book!