Wednesday, November 05, 2008

Barack Obama the new 44th USA president!



Barack Obama (pic,left) won by 349 votes over 159 (as of 15.48pm Malaysian time) by John McCain of Republican, a landslide majority indeed. The Blue states swept across the nation except for the typical conventional central and southern part of the country. Even so, the voting counts in most of the Red states are narrowing by 10 %.

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In his winning speech, Obama has uttered these strong words: "Change has come to America!"

And McCain responded by saying: " The American people have spoken, and they have spoken clearly". Macam ala2 Survivors the series jer...harosss la the tribe has spoken thingy.


Poor Sarah Palin (pic, below), she gotta stay perked up and wait for another 10 years to run the presidential campaign...if ever she is still popular....






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One wonders how long will it take for some progressive reformation with the right paradigm shift among our politicians...

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One of the things malaysians soo hyped about on this o-ba-ma elect is his middle name Hussein. 1st of all, they prolly shud hate his daddy who didnt practise his grandparents religion and dont the malaysian muslim against any "apostate" or "agnostic" sort of people? Secondly, he has declared himself a Christian and his middle name shudve been Steve or something (refer to his speeches in youtube). The Times Onlines reported on this too:

Barack Obama was directly confronted on prime time television last night over allegations swirling around the internet that he is a secret Muslim who worships the Koran (note: We Muslims DO NOT worship the Koran but we try as much as we could to adhere to the teachings and we are required to read and study those words of God to understand Islam more with the right guidance from the learned people), during a Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas.

Mr Obama, who was raised as a Christian by his white mother despite his Kenyan father being Muslim, has been dogged by smears and innuendo for months that he is in fact an Islamist trying to enter the Oval office by stealth.

"Let's make clear what the facts are: I am a Christian. I have been sworn in with a Bible. I pledge allegiance [to the American flag] and lead the pledge of allegiance sometimes in the United States Senate when I'm presiding."

Mr Obama is a member of Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ and is an actively practising Christian. But opponents, particularly on the Republican side, delight in reminding people that his middle name is Hussein, taken from his father, a Harvard educated economist who left the family when Mr Obama was two.


In spite of all that, to me, he brought this "fresh hope" so to speak. But then, Collin Powell and CondoleezaRice preceded him in terms of world power with those Secretary General post for UN and US respectively. And Obama is practising what any(most) US president would do: electing some Jewish fellas as their right people. IN short, he is a typical American but with different upbringing experiences.

All I hope is that he aint just some "fresh prince of bel-air" but a reformed man who brings positive impacts throughout the world. And that he wont get assassinated because of his skin colour. Coz all i care now is to see him doing the "Change", practising what he preaches.Otherwise, he's just another democrat president-elect to me (but also as someone i'd like to meet given the chance).

12 comments:

ardy said...

Sarah Palin is a big joke!

ManaL said...

Ardy,

Aaww....thats a bit nasty....but she was a bit of a global joke too compared to Hillary Clinton. Yet, she commands a huge followers who copied her signature glasses, and her being an ex-beauty pageant. She probably needs to learn more from the likes of Condoleeza Rice, Madeline Albright, etc on many things and not get fooled by even some prank calls (or made sure her aides are very alert and smart enuf) who disguised himself as Nicolas Sarkozy!

Typhoon Sue said...

I actually like Sarah Palin....
she's smart and beautiful and funny as hell. I especially love her in Baby Mama....ooops, wait!!! That's Tina Fey!!!

Typhoon Sue said...

hehehe.. saja nak wat lawak bodo pagi2 senin nih...

Siti Khadijah said...

Sarah Palin needs a globe to know here Africa is. Ms Palin, Africa is a continent!

ManaL said...

Sue (1)

she would prolly tell ya she is mildly amused that u took her jokes or as a joke....

ManaL said...

Sue (2)

And how i am mildly happy to accept your lawak pagi senin, ms sue...(in nailin' palin tone).

ManaL said...

Madam Curi,

She prolly too busy studying snow tracks and all those dreams on baby seal hunting that she thought africa is another country somewhere in America led by Will Smith,Morgan Freeman and their black president Washington, Denzel. Dont forget, Madam, that she has been a "blonde" for so long since her beauty pageant days... Maaf kan dia....

Unknown said...

Hi Manal,

In this modern world of technological advancement, I worry! Why do I say that?

Today, many leaders get elected not based on real genuine substance but based on strength of media spin & that has correlation with financial might/strength!

This applies globally.

So I will only take my hat off to Obama when I see substance, in real action terms.

But then looking at the recent OBAMA euphoria, I sometimes can't blame our people for not being able to see beyond physical on our political front too. Sad.

The Pisces Man said...

Here's a little description of Barack's father:
He describes his father as "raised a Muslim", but a "confirmed atheist" by the time his parents met, and his stepfather as "a man who saw religion as not particularly useful."

Maybe Sarah Palin can shift career to become a magazine model for a change...?

If Barack is a confirmed Muslim and practises Islam, I doubt he's where he's at now. Even if he manages to sit on the Presidency's chair, he'd need to hire extra body guards or somethig.

ManaL said...

Kak Ruby,

Thats deep...

I agree on the substance too. There're many hopes no matter how wishful they could be, and then those who loves to menangguk di air yang keruh, equalling Obama's victory to many possibilities despite how "unbecoming" they are.

So , what I would like to see is how he and his teams as the so-called the ruler and controller of the 21st century world trying to lessen the global problems with more just and sincerity. At least to a higher degree of recuperation to compensate the damages done by his predecessors.

ManaL said...

Pisces Man,

A magazine model from a Governor? A governess may be! lotta guys out there need some loving and she might use that to increase her power for the next 5-10 years and maybe tips from watching "Commander in Chief" and few dramas from HBO and so on. After all, she might want want to smarter than any president and world rulers wives around America and other countries she can view from Alaska.