Archive for the ‘American Politics’ Category

Jul2

Asian dawn will soon eclipse UK, EU and the West

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Having read Max Hastings column in the Daily Mail on Saturday 25th June 2011 in conjunction with the other two “related” articles that day strongly hinting at the real danger of a forthcoming economic collapse in the UK and Europe, it did not leave me full of hope as it rang so true about the short term attitudes of both the British and our European partners.

Max Hastings article on the Daily Mail website on Saturday 25th June 2011 was entitled “La-La Land Britain faces permanent economic decline unless we face threat from the East“. In his article Max Hastings draws our attention to the fact that while “the latest Merrill Lynch World Wealth report shows that, while 300,000 new Asia-Pacific investors with at…

Nov7

First past the post, even if not got the most!

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President-Elect Barack Obama’s “landslide” win with more than double the number of Electoral College votes than John McCain, is totally out of proportion to the number of votes each candidate received. With the destiny of Missouri’s 11 electoral college votes still to be decided, Senator Barack Obama has 65 million votes to Senator John McCain’s 57 million votes, yet Obama has 364 electoral college votes to McCain’s 162, a very disproportionate number, but that is how the system works in America, with whoever gets 270 electoral college votes the winner.

In 2000, the Democratic Presidential Candidate, Vice-President Al Gore actually got 48.38% of the votes, compared to George Bush’s 47.87% share of the vote. However, President George Bush crawled over the finish line with 271 electoral college votes…

Nov5

Not a lame duck President, this one!

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By achieving the majority of the popular vote in the American Presidential Election, and a majority in both the Senate and the House of Representatives, Barack Obama and the Democratic Party have a mandate to make a difference after 4 years of a lame duck President, who got in for his 2nd term via a controversial result in Florida, that many still question to this day. I can only hope that Barack Obama turns out to be a man of action as well of words, otherwise the massive expectancy could eventually turn against him.

The great thing is that the American People have voted in an African American for the first time in their history, which is terrifically refreshing and exciting. His energetic 21 month campaign certainly merits his…

Nov3

Barack Obama’s window of opportunity

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I don’t know if you have been following the American Presidential Election, but according to the polls, Senator Barack Obama’s window of opportunity is starting to close, with Senator John McCain closing the gap with only 24 hours left to go before the American People choose an old Republican or a young Democrat. Had the election been 6 months ago, I suspect McCain would have won, but the economic crisis killed his campaign, after all he is in the Republican Party. However, as the economic situation settles it seems that the “window” of opportunity Barack Obama has is much smaller than it was two weeks ago.

The election tomorrow can not then come soon enough for Obama and the Democratic Party, who still could lose it…