.. merican Media Circus promoter. Barnum and Baily never had it so good.
Who, in Australia, really gives a shit about the convoluted, crazy, mega-dollar media circus to decide who gets to temporarily reside in that public-house at 1600 Pennsylvania Av?
One seriously wonders why the local TV, as well as the Newspapers are full to the brim with opinion, comment, speculation about WHO WILL BE PRESIDENT of the small country situated between Canada and Mexico.
It's crap, always will be. There is - seriously - no long term benefit or detriment in world affairs.
American "Foreign Policy" has, and always will be a bittuva joke ( apart from all the deaths and destruction).
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The biggest problem, as I see it. Is that they are screwing up and breaking this country.
As it's economy fails it affects the rest of the world.
I think it is poetic justest for this country to fail, it deserves to. It's just too bad that it affects many others.
At least until the world gets sorted out again. I've gotten as ready as I can for a bumpy ride, but many haven't.
Well, I can't waste too much time worrying about stupid people. I have beer to drink. :-)
murdoch figured us out. he's got our number. most of us don't want to really know whats going on. We just want the cheap thrill of being angry about something and having someone to blame it on...never mind that there are more constructive ways to be a citizen. Rupert knows their is a bustling market for his secret recipe of smug white guys congratulating us and making us feel justified in our selfishness and xenophobia. His pablum media product is driving better news organizations out of the market.
Thats why I stick to independent bloggers for my reality-checked news.
And yeah BBC, we're going down the tubes but fast.
um, sorry to say this GS (but you are already aware of it) but the export of "American Democracy" is one of the saddest and sickest jokes, at the moment. Would, actually, like to be alive in 500 or so years - just to see what becomes of the "ideal" .. heh.
here's a surprise:
"Barack Hussein Obama owes his very existence to a defiance of conventional odds. He was born and came of age in Hawaii, the 50th state and in many ways among the freest-thinking, where mixed-race ancestry is such a given that residents refer to their own backgrounds as “chop suey” or “poi dog,” where hotel-room bureau drawers hold not only the Gideon Bible but the Book of Mormon and the Teachings of the Buddha, and where bumper stickers urge, wag more, bark less. If Obama comes across as a bit of a softy—if you don’t see the toughness or the ambition at first—it may be in part because he spent his formative years in a place where “Live Aloha” had not yet become a slogan aimed at recapturing a more gracious time, but was simply a way of life.
His mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, was the white daughter of a Kansas furniture and insurance salesman who had wanted a son, and who moved to Hawaii on the eve of statehood in search of a new lease on life. She loved the speeches of Martin Luther King Jr. and the music of Mahalia Jackson, and thought Harry Belafonte was, as her son remembers, “the best-looking man on the planet.” At 18, she met and married Barack Hussein Obama Sr., a former Kenyan goatherd and an economist-in-training who had recently become the first African student in the history of the University of Hawaii—this in 1960, a time when inter-racial marriage was still illegal in almost half the mainland states. The couple divorced in 1963, when their son was just 2, and Barack met his father (who ultimately claimed paternity of a total of eight children by four women before dying in a car crash at age 52, in 1983) precisely once more in his life—for a month, at Christmas, in Honolulu, when he was 10.
Two-year-old Barack Hussein Obama in Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1963. From Polaris.
View images of the young Barack Obama.
Ann next married an Indonesian national named Lolo Soetoro. She eventually began pursuing a Ph.D. in anthropology that required frequent fieldwork in Indonesia, and Barack spent four years of his childhood there, in the world’s most populous Muslim nation. Because his mother wanted Barack to have the best possible bite at the American Dream, she left him in Hawaii for much of his adolescence in the care of his maternal grandparents, Stanley and Madelyn Dunham, who fed him a poly-cultural diet of sashimi and Jell-O with grapes, and got him admission and a scholarship to the prestigious Punahou School, in Honolulu.
Bwca .. at this point methinks that Barak Obama IS the most "sensible" choice that the american population could choose. However, "usa" has never had a history of "sense, nor sensiblity". Also, their "presidency" has never been about "popular choice". More, methinks, about "manipulation of Delegates" by foul means or fair.
So, technically, am predicting that H. Clinton will eventually end up as the "democratic" candidate.
Which will make the "presidential" election interesting. A choice between Hilary Clinton and McCain.
at that point there IS only one choice.
I could be wrong.
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