Barack Obama won the white house with a landslide victory!
Senses has defected ignorance and arrogance. American is still the most civilized society of the world.
I am glad that I live in a time when so many histories are made.
p.s. The biggest landslide victory of Barack Obama lies in Washington D.C., the very capital of the country: 94% of the vote went to Obama. McCain only got 4% of the vote.
By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON – Colin Powell, a Republican who was President Bush's first secretary of state, endorsed Democrat Barack Obama for president Sunday and criticized the tone of Republican John McCain's campaign.
Link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081019/ap_on_el_pr/powell
The second presidential debate is generating intense interest among the public.
 Barack Obama is fighting back over attacks on his character |
More than six million people have e-mailed questions to the moderator, NBC news presenter Tom Brokaw, who will preside over the town hall-style debate in Nashville, Tennessee.
He will select only six or seven e-mailed questions, as well around a dozen from the studio audience of 80 uncommitted voters.
Mr McCain, who is widely viewed as having lost the first debate, has vowed to take the gloves off for this encounter.
Mr Obama, meanwhile, promised to fight back.
"We don't throw the first punch, but we'll throw the last," he told a syndicated radio show.
This season's news is far more thrilling yet entertaining than any TV shows ever made. The first black presidential candidate for the United States talks sense in this time of turmoil and is leading in the polls. The 72 years-old John McCain seeks to be the oldest first-term president and picks a female governor of Alaska with no national experience nor foreign experience (and needs babysitting by McCain throughout the campaign) to be his running mate. Her less-than-handful interviews by the media are disaterous. Financial institutions on Wall Street crumble one after another. Investment banks got bought up by gigantic banks which become even more gigantic, got nationalized or gone bankrupt. John McCain "stops" campaigning and rushs to Washington to "lead" a bipartisan meeting with House representatives, President Bush, head of the Fed and Treasury Secretary to settle on a bill that allows the government to use as much as $700 billion to bail out bad credits, but both Democrats and Republicans say that McCain is not helping if not bring trouble. The meeting ends with a standoff after the Republicans revolt. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson half-knees to the House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and begs the Democrats to resume the meeting, and concedes that it is the Republicans that are holding back the negotiation. The House leaders spend the whole weekend doing some real work to sort out a bill, which is only rejected in the House by 23 votes, because many congressmen and congresswomen do not want to take the risk of upsetting their constituents only 5 weeks away from election. Dow Jones plummets by 777 points, the biggest one-day drop ever. The rest of the world follows suit.
This is history in the making. I am so glad to witness it up close.
p.s. The decision by a few US Supreme Court judges decided in 2000 the fate of millions in the Middle East. Let's hope that the decision of a few dozens of US House representatives do not turn the world over this time.
It is a joke to put this woman on the VP seat. I am very looking forward to the VP debate next Thursday.
from BBC news:
Senior Republican Senator Chuck Hagel has voiced doubts about Sarah Palin's qualifications for the vice-presidency.
John McCain's running mate "doesn't have any foreign policy credentials", Mr Hagel told the Omaha World-Herald.
Mr Hagel was a prominent supporter of Mr McCain during his 2000 bid for the US presidency, but has declined to endorse either candidate this year.
He was opposed to the Iraq War, and recently joined Mr McCain's rival Barack Obama on a Middle East trip.
'Stop the nonsense'
"I think it's a stretch to, in any way, to say that she's got the experience to be president of the United States," Mr Hagel told the Omaha World-Herald newspaper.
And he was dismissive of the fact that Mrs Palin, the governor of Alaska, has made few trips abroad.
"You get a passport for the first time in your life last year? I mean, I don't know what you can say. You can't say anything."
Mr Hagel also criticised the McCain campaign for its suggestion that the proximity of Alaska to Russia gave Mrs Palin foreign policy experience.
"I think they ought to be just honest about it and stop the nonsense about, 'I look out my window and I see Russia and so therefore I know something about Russia'," he said.
"That kind of thing is insulting to the American people."
From BBC news:
Hong Kong's pro-democracy camp has won more than a third of seats in elections on the island, and so retains a key veto over future major legislation.
Final results show the pro-democracy opposition won 23 out of 60 seats in the Legislative Council of the Chinese-administered but autonomous territory.
Thank you so much for everyone who voted for the pro-democracy camp.
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2008-09-08 HKT 07:18
立 法 會 選 舉 ， 醫 學 界 功 能 界 別 由 威 爾 斯 醫 院 外 科 醫 生 梁 家 騮 擊 敗 尋 求 連 任 的 郭 家 麒 當 選 。
威 爾 斯 醫 院 外 科 醫 生 梁 家 騮 得 2217 票 ； 港 大 微 生 物 學 系 副 教 授 何 栢 良 得 2138 票 ； 西 醫 工 會 會 長 楊 超 發 得 580 票 ； 郭 家 麒 得 1869 票 。
Congratulations! I am so proud of you 騮哥! 努力為公義做事!
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政綱 (初稿)
監察政府施政、關注政制發展
立法會的主要功能是審議法案、監察施政。若缺乏監察，政府便會有意無意地作出疑似官商勾結、私相授受的行為。近日「副局長」及「政治助理」的委任，和數年前「西九龍發展」的建議等，就是明顯的事例。我們的業界代表，須是獨立敢言的，而不是得到政府或醫管局高層祝福的「朋友」。本人若能當選，定必以嚴謹、理性和求真的態度，代表業界監察政府施政。
From the Associated Press:
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin told ministry students at her former church that the United States sent troops to fight in the Iraq war on a "task that is from God."
In an address last June, the Republican vice presidential candidate also urged ministry students to pray for a plan to build a $30 billion natural gas pipeline in the state, calling it "God's will."
What the fuck?? Does she mean the Iraq war is a holy war? The last thing we need in this world is another fundamentalist! Think about she is literally a heart beat away from the presidency if the MaCain-Palin ticket wins the election!
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Check this out. A friend of mine posted it on his Facebook. I can't verify the authenticity of the tape, but if it is not a hoax, it is how dismal this pair of president/vice-president is gonna be:
"McCain's Voice Mail to Palin Leaked to Press"
Fourteen hours after Obama delivered his acceptance speech in front of 84,000 supporters and 38 millions people on TV as the first black candidate for the president of the United States, the 72-years-old John McCain announced his VP pick that surprises every single American: a 44-year old Sarah Palin, governor of Alaska. Before taking office as governor in 2006, Palin was mayor of a small Alaska town of only 65oo people. She is even 3 years younger than Obama.
It seems the McCain camp has changed his election strategy. Instead of showing how different he is from Obama, he is now trying to match up with him in every aspect. His pick of a young woman as VP candidate can also get Hillary supporters' votes. It will also throw Joe Biden a big challenge in his VP candidate debate. What a great strategy.
It is going to be the most interesting election ever in history.
"Wait a minute. What did you just say? You're predicting $4-a-gallon gas? That's interesting. I hadn't heard that." -- George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Feb. 28, 2008
"My job is a decision-making job, and as a result, I make a lot of decisions." -- George W. Bush, Lancaster, Pa., Oct. 3, 2007
"What was the question? I’m 62, I’m having trouble remembering a lot of things." -- George W. Bush to a journalist at a press conference in Washington, D.C., July 15, 2008
While Barack Obama was giving a speech in Tiergarten of Berlin to thousands of Berliners, John McCain aired radio ads in every town called Berlin in the US. They were 60s ads accusing Obama's voting against allocating money for the army. I have not heard the any of the ads, but it sounds more like a joke than real. BBC news takes a very neutral ground on this:
The McCain campaign's recent decision to air radio adverts in the towns of Berlin, Pennsylvania, Berlin, New Hampshire and Berlin, Wisconsin was also thought to be a pointed reference to Mr Obama's foreign travels.
This may seem making fun at the Obama campaign, but this childish move may backfire the McCain campaign at some point.
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From Yahoo! News:
The reference (of the radio ads) is to Obama's vote on May 24, 2007, against a $120 billion appropriation, most of it for troops fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. Obama had voted for a similar bill weeks earlier that required the administration to begin withdrawing troops from Iraq by Oct. 1, 2007. That bill passed, but President Bush vetoed it. The legislation that replaced it contained no withdrawal language and it passed 80-14 with Obama among the dissenters.
At the time of that vote, Obama issued a statement: "After he vetoed a plan that would have funded the troops and begun to bring them home, this bill represents more of his stubborn refusal to address his failed policy. We should not give the President a blank check to continue down this same, disastrous path."
