If you are looking for historical pictures of President-elect Barack Obama and his family, there is a good resource online which you can see here. A very interesting collection of photographs of a young Barack Obama, his parents and grandparents, as well as his family.
There was never any doubt in my mind that Obama would win the Presidency of the United States. People were getting fed-up with the eight years of Rethuglicans misrule and the economic situation didn’t help either. So they elected an intelligent, charismatic candidate who can deliver the goods.
Despite the Democrat win, I am still adopting a “look-and-see” approach to how President Obama will handle the many problems left behind by the Bush administration. The only things I want done differently is that the US must pull out of Iraq, be an honest broker for a just peace in the Middle East, vis-a-vis the Palestinian issue and stop threatening countries with war if they do not get their way.
No prizes for guessing whose side I am on and if you still can’t figure it out, then its obvious you don’t bother about US politics. I have been leaning towards Democrat candidates for as long as I can remember, because of their generally non-interventionist foreign policy and internal social reforms, both of which involves less war and more peace.
And we certainly need a lot of that in current times.
Ironically, I could have participated in the voting since I am a born-American (and that, folks, makes me a US citizen) but I choose not to. Firstly, because it is such a bother having to travel to the US embassy and prove that you are an American (and I haven’t renewed my US passport for like 20 years) and secondly, I already had my fair share of excitement voting in the last GE. So I think I’ll just cheer by the sidelines and hope for an Obama-Biden victory….
I find it an irony that such bus campaigns are allowed in — of all places! — Chicago, US of A. I doubt such a advert slapped on a RapidKL could take off here in Islam terHad pada Hari-hari tertentu Malaysia…JAKIM will probably receive all kinds of flak from the Islam Liberals and the Islamophobes combined. I can think of a few organisations that will oppose such a move here. But I will officially make it my lifelong ambition to see such an advert promoting Bismika Allahuma to appear on a RapidKL bus one day.
For those who wish to support the ICNA bus ad campaign, you may donate here.
Its a great irony (at least, to me) that the Greatest Islamophobic State in the world today is most likely going to elect a black President in this coming November (trust me, McCain will not win, not by a long shot). I wonder what the missionaries, Christian xenophobes and Islam-haters in the country has to say to that notion of thought happening.