This is slick, very slick – and impressive. This ‘informercial’, just released in the US, cleverly tugs at heart-strings. I just hope Obama remembers the ordinary people he talked about if he comes to power. But I am also sceptical to what extent he can actually reform the private health care industry (yes, its an industry, big business) or push through pro-people economic policies. Too often, populist politicians show a keen interest in the concerns of ordinary people only to disappoint when elected as they invariably pander to the interests of Big Business and lose touch with the hardships of the people on the ground who voted them into power.
I also hope Obama will keep his promise to end the war in Iraq. But I don’t know if he can escape – or even if he wants to – from the clutches of the military-industrial-media-complex and its desire to seize strategic control of foreign oil reserves.
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Phua Kai Lit, you only know of Fox news. Try to broaden your world perspective. Here`s something from AP (that`s Associated Press and it`s been around longer than Fox):
WASHINGTON (AP) – Barack Obama’s aunt, a Kenyan woman who has been quietly living in public housing in Boston, is in the United States illegally after an immigration judge rejected her request for asylum four years ago, The Associated Press has learned.
Zeituni Onyango, 56, referred to as “Aunti Zeituni” in Obama’s memoir, was instructed to leave the United States by a U.S. immigration judge who denied her asylum request, a person familiar with the matter told the AP late Friday. This person spoke on condition of anonymity because no one was authorized to discuss Onyango’s case.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D945TEE01&show_article=1
And the progessive AP blames it on of course:
Information about the deportation case was disclosed and confirmed by two separate sources, one of them a federal law enforcment official. The information they made available is known to officials in the federal government, but the AP could not establish whether anyone at a political level in the Bush administration or in the McCain campaign had been involved in its release.
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Actually, a better comparison would be the majority MSM in America, which slaveringly sides with Obama just as how our local MSM obeys the every whim of BN.
FOX is akin to Malaysiakini, in that it openly rebels against the one-sided media establishment.
Proof?
Non-profit, politically neutral, non-partisan George Mason University Centre for Media and Public Affairs finds FOX is the most balanced U.S. media
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I’ll respond with only two comments:
1. When I was a postgrad student in the US, I came across
some interesting statistics i.e.
80% of political science professors in a survey of
U.S. professors said they support the Democratic Party
About 60% of economics professors said they support
the Democratic Party
2. I have lived (studied, worked etc) in the USA for 17 years.
I’ve also participated in local level politics in USA,
I know something about the US Radical Right.
The most balanced political commentary is
by Mark Shields and David Brooks on the Newshour
on public TV in the USA. Shields is Democratic Party-leaning
while Brooks is Republican.
One can learn a lot about US politics by listening to their
analyses and comments.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour
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