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I woke up this morning with the news of Barack Obama’s overwhelming’s victory and I was truly happy. After years of a real disappointing Bush leadership, America eventually made the right choice.
A dynamic, charismatic, progressist, leader has been elected. America and the rest of the world are ready to welcome him with open hands.

Obama’s election coincides with difficult economic circumstances,on a worldwide scale, political tensions. During his campaign, Mr Obama never said that anything would be easy. He encouraged American citizens to makes some efforts. I think that he is perfectly grown to the current situation and that he will handle it very well over the years.

Barack Obama is the living proof of Dr Martin Luther King’s dream come true. He will be bridging the gaps between races and different communities. New hopes for a peaceful ending in Iraq are permitted. A conservative leader such as Mc Cain would have pushed America and the whole world into a scary, never ending terrorist attempts spiral. I’m not certain that we will lead a more secure life in that way, but I think that Obama’s presence will help to soothe some obvious political tensions.

Barack Obama’s election allows me to envision a better world with less discrimination against ethnic minorities, more fraternity between different folks of different origins. It allows me to dream of a sweeter future made of great professional opportunities for my beautiful bi racial boys.

Just before I close the subject, I’d like to address to the few nutcases who think I am endorsing Eminem’s opinion: I am not aware of Eminem’s political opinion about Obama, since he seemed not to have expressed on the subject. I don’t care anyway. I am entitled to my opinion, as well as he is to his. I, Isabelle Esling, am speaking in my own name. Hope this enlightened your slow thinking brains!

To the narrow minded Americans who think I shouldn’t care because I’m a foreigner, let me gently remind you that the whole world is concerned. America’s destiny in terms of ecomomic wealth and politics is very much intertwined with all other countries in the world. So yes, I do care about the Us elections.

May God bless you and protect you, Barack Obama. You fully proved that anything (positive) can happen in America. You broke the barriers of race and opened the doors to a better future.

Congratulations!

Read more on the subject and watch a related video on The Guardian website.

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He’s dynamic, charismatic, young. He manages to raise enthusiasm among crowds of very different ethnic backgrounds. Born from a white American mom and an Kenyan father, Barack Obama was a sporty and brilliant student as a kid.
With his clever tactics, his intelligence and a great determination to win the Presidential battle, Obama managed to get rid of his Democratic party rival, Hillary Clinton.

Today I’d like to express my support to a man who raises some new hopes for the entire world.

First and foremost, I think that Barack Obama should not be looked at as a “black man” (he ’s from a bi-racial background anyway) and his skin color should not be people’s main motivation in electing him, the target being too much important to be overlooked.

No matter what your ethnic background is, I do think that Barack Obama’s election would be a great step in reconciling humanity, bridging folks from diverse, multicultural origins.
Barak Obama truly represents the voice of any ethnicity. Being from a bi-racial ethnic background, he is particularly sensitive to ethnic minories’ needs and aspirations.
He will help better than anybody else fight against discrimination.

Unlike his predecessors-George W Bush in particular- Barack Obama has some REAL changes and challenges to offer to our world. He might definitely put an end to the worthless Iraqi war that Bush pursued with no mercy-leaving the whole world into a big pool of blood, as a consequence of so many terror attempts worldwide. Moreover, I am deeply convinced that Barack Obama is the ideal person who can handle Middle East conflicts with a delicate, diplomatic hand.

Which allows me to express some more hopes for more peace in this world…and maybe Al Quaeda might calm down a little bit too…(maybe I’m a little bit too optimistic on the subject, but please allow me to dream about a safer world…)

Unlike Bush- Barack Obama seems to take the very sensitive question of global warming and environmental pollution very seriously.

Of course, Barack Obama will have to battle Mc Cain to win the final race. But considering that the 73 year old Republican seems to be Bush’s carbon copy, it shouldn’t be that much difficult.

Barack Obama has the mind of a winner. I sincerely hope that American folks will have the intelligence to make the right choice.

If this brilliant man wins the race to the White House, all hopes for a better future are permitted. It allows me to think that great doors will eventually open for all people from mixed ethnic background like my own kids.

Yes, he can win- with your support, American folks!

For more info, visit:
www.barackobama.com

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Since his election in May 2007, Nicolas Sarkozy is making a lot of noise with his so called brand new policy. Like many of his predecessors, Sarkozy made a lot of empty promises to his electors, but he seems to surpass them in terms of mass-blinding and lying.

Here is a French president, a little man (in all senses of the term), a typical Frenchman who wants to play it the American way and who seems to confuse presidency and superstardom.

Of course, he is trying to cultivate a good image abroad, but accurate analysts will understand that this man’s self pride is his one and only motivation.

Unprecedented in French politics, he is the most exposed president in the media. He displays a shameless exposure of his privacy, promises his folks an increase of their buying power (while people s reality rather shows a decrease in their budget) while increasing his own salary!

How can someone declare that he wants a France of owners when at least 20 000 people are homeless in the French Capital?

Moreover, Mr Sarkozy totally lets people from the outskirts down, unlike his electoral promises.
Only a true dialog will help to solve difficult situations…more cops will mean more upcoming conflicts. Anybody with a minimum of intelligence could foresee tense situations in the French ghettos.

While signing big commercial deals with the Arab world, Mr President doesn’t care about their consequences. Former persona non grata Mr Khadafi is now welcome in France. I am glad he gave Sarkozy a lesson about human rights. Immigrants are not always treated with respect in France, which needed to be underlined. Well done, Mr Khadafi!

I’d like to point out that I fully hate the hypocrisy of Mr Sarkozy talking about Islam, when he totally seems to ignore France’s second religion.

Because of his political views regarding Iraq, Paris is now threatened with terror attacks by Al Quaeda.

His strategy of weakening the executive power is a well thought tactic to impose his will, slowly leading his country to a dictatorship.

As the days go by, more and more French people are dissatisfied with Sarkozy’s politics, a man with a great ambition, who puts in place a policy aimed at rich people only.

He created a monster that is scarier than any Mr Bush. Whatever Mr Sarkozy sows, that he will also reap.

Just wait and see…

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Dedicated to my American friends, whether they agree with this content or not.

While sitting on my computer, I am having a little thought for my American friends, whether in real life or on the net.

I can recall when I first discovered the horrific vision of the 9/11 attacks on German TV in 2001.
It really took me time to realize that this was no fiction, but the sad reality- which also leads me to a second question.

When President Bush targetted the Talibans in October 2001, he promised a safer world to all of us. His political mistakes, his worthless, bloody Iraqi war increased our unsafety.

Not only the USA, but many European countries and overseas countries do live under a constant terror threat.

I think it is time our world leaders analyzed the consequences of their actions for our kids to benefit from a safer environment.

I don’t want to live in fear. Neither do other citizens of our world.

Islam is not our biggest enemy, but the arrogance of some greedy leaders who present themselves as saviors when they are responsible for millions of deaths.

Let’s all pray for a world of peace and tolerance.

I hope a tragedy like 9/11th never happens again.

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as the following article tends to prove it.

Although I really like the USA, most of you probably know my total dislike of President Bush. This time, however, he proved to be cooler than I ever thought he could be! I enjoyed this story and I hope you will enjoy it as much as I did.

On May the 6th, 2007, 53% of the French population gave its voices to Nicolas Sarkozy, voting in favor of a man who promises to rebuild France economically, to re-create work and to give hope to the most hopeless people. Last Sunday, he claimed to give people of different ethnic backgrounds the same chances and severely condemned racial discrimination.

Sarkozy made a whole speech in favor of America and claimed to do his best to help African countries.

Full of self pride and of authoritarian principles, Mr Sarkozy presented himself as France s new Messiah.

Well, I would have granted him a chance, if it wasn t the same man, who ignited severe trouble in our ghettos back in 2005.

When somebody claims to be able to run a country, he should also be able to choose the words that come out of his mouth carefully.

If Sarkozy is against discrimination of any kind, why does he discriminate against young people from poor economic backgrounds? Why does he have to use demeaning words such as scums to define young people from the ghetto? Why would he claim to clean them up with a karcher?

Isn t that metaphor very close to the Nazis methods aiming at the Jewish people s extermination?

Mr Sarkozy, who claims to be the solution to the high unemployment figures in France already pointed a discriminatory finger at the jobless, calling them lazy if they stay unemployed over 6 months. Non content to do so, he also created some masked fake jobs in order to flatter the job center statistics, but that won t help poor people on a concrete basis while being in Jacques Chirac s government. Those jobs are (please seize the irony here) called contracts of the future. Contracts of the future take at least 70 % of poor people s welfare that goes directly into the employer s account. All fiscal deductions beside , the subscribers of those mischievous contracts – I mean people on welfare- will earn 100 euros as a whole for an entire month of work. Wow, I sense some progress!

Mr Sarkozy might be perceived positively in Great Britain, but the British media s vision of this politician is a wrong perception of France s reality.
Mr Sarkozy happens to be a great admirer of Mr Blair and is known to spend some of his weekends in London.

Mr Blair also seems to be a huge source of inspiration for Sarkozy s economical vision of France. However, a system that woks for a liberal economy such as Great Britain could dig France s future grave. France needs economical solutions that are adapted to its own system and mentality. In the same way, you could barely make a « little America » of France. America is a federal state, France is a centralized state, which is completely different. Mr Sarkozy doesn t even seem to be conscious of those obvious differences that make a country s personality.

Sarkozy claims to be Africa s new hope. I am not convinced that a man who spreads racist discourses is even preoccupied with Africa s destiny.

So what matters to Mr Sarkozy?

Power, money, and domination, as far as I am concerned.

A good part of the French population has been blinded by a greedy liar that is closer to a dictator than to a democrat.

Just after his elections, riots and manifestations started, particularly within the ghettos.

Let s see what the future holds for a France lead by a man who is obsessed with power and glory. Sarkozy already proved that he didn t really care about the underprivileged .

Lets meet again in 5 years.

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As a fair warning, I would like to tell my readers that this subject is most likely to bring up some controversy. Feel free to debate…you don t have to agree with me, but please respect my point of view. Thank you.

A few days ago, a 25 year old British woman was making the headlines of nearly all British media: Faye Turner captured by the Iranian folks, forced to wear a hijab and to write a letter for her government to apologize for entering illegally the Iranian waters.

She was mostly presented as a victim, a young mother torn apart from her little daughter, not feeling well in presence of all those evil Iranians.

Stop…you nearly made me cry with your fabricated sob story…this was sarcasm, of course.

I wish the British government stopped being such hypocrites in their presentation of the facts. More strikingly, Tony Blair appears to be the biggest liar on earth, since it was found out that he even went that far to fabricate a fake map, just to prove that the Iranians were lying about the borders of their waters.

Non content to bring things as far as a big diplomatic incident, Bush also got involved, commenting the hostages capture as unacceptable.

Wow. How much stupid are the people who are supposed to lead our world?

First of all, I do think that the Iranian folks have all reasons to be angry, because of the illegal intrusion of British soldiers on their national waters. This is a breach of national sovereignty.

Secondly, even if it is never an enviable position for anybody to be someone else s hostage, I do consider that Faye and her fellows seemed to be treated in a fair way and respectfully. They had plenty of food to eat and despite the pressure anybody would feel in such an insecure situation, they all seemed to do rather well, given the circumstances.

Nobody seems to care when Iraqi prisoners get raped, mistreated, or murdered. Nobody gives a shit when American soldiers drop a Holy Quran in the toilets in order to humiliate the prisoners. Nobody feels concerned by the many Iraqi civilians loosing their lives.

Third, Faye has chosen to be a soldier. She is far away from her kid by her own choice. No need to waste tears about the consequences of her professional choice!

Now let s talk a little bit about the veil: why all the fuss about Faye wearing that veil?
If I went to a country such as Iran as a European woman, knowing that the practice and approach of the official religion is more fundamentalist here, I would wear one too, in order not to offend people s customs. People usually give you what they get from you. If you show respect, you get respect in return.

I don t really see where the big deal is. An attentive observer would take note that the young woman had half of her hair visible anyway.

The British government s arrogance against Iranian people is quite obvious. I keep asking myself why Blair is so hard in apologizing when he perfectly knows his country is in the wrong.

A sincere apology would have helped to get the prisoners released rapidly. Now they risk to get judged and to land up in jail. No need to complain about a diplomatic incident you created, Mr Blair.

At least, the 15 hostages apology for entering the Iranian water might allow a change in their dramatic situation and set them free, according to the latest news from Tehran.

I sincerely wished Bush and Blair realized that Iranians and Iraqis are free to auto determine their folks destiny.

I wish some people of good will stopped the Iraqi war too and sent all the foreign troops where they belong: home.

Maybe then we could have a better peace of mind and fear terrorist attacks less.

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Tony Blair s recent statements about gang crimes made me think a lot. All politicians prompt to make a lot of empty statements regarding society s failures like crime, violence, drugs, poverty, pointing their finger at the symptoms of our society s current illness rather than finding out the right cure.

Tony Blair, for instance, wants to empower the police without offering any viable solution for England s poorest places. Why complain about thugs and arm traffics in the hood without cutting the head of the main monster: I think that arm smugglers should face harder sentences than any gun user.

French Minister Sarkozy complains about little pieces of scum in our French ghettos. He wants to clean them up with a karcher, to quote him in his own shameful words.
Mr Sarkozy, you created those pieces of scum. The young human beings from our ghettos act the way the y act, because they feel rejected. Give them decent job and treat them equally you won t hear about them burning cars and vandalizing the hood again.

Does Mr Sarkozy know ghettos? Has he ever lived in such a place? The answer is no, you guessed it. Mr Sarkozy plays the victimized immigrant who had to face rejection when his father emigrated to France. Did he face any financial difficulties like ghetto people do? I doubt it: he is the son of a Hungarian aristocrat!

If you ever get elected in May 2007, Mr Dictator aka Nicolas Sarkozy, France will have lost his privileges of liberty, equality and fraternity for a good while.

Bush, one of the world s scariest dictator (yes, you heard it well) describes Al Quaida as our contemporary Christian s world s enemies. He tries to brainwash American citizens with his foolish discourses. When Jadakiss stated Bush knocked down the towers in brilliant Immortal Technique s song, he perfectly knew what he was talking about. Bush accepted to commerce with Ben Laden first. He should take responsibilities for his foolish actions, for the world s sake.

In England and in America, an anti-Islamic trend is highly encouraged. Many Muslim believers are viewed as potential terrorists. Some of them have even been brutalized by the police in London for no reason. Not Islam is our enemy, but a total ignorance of Muslim beliefs and a lack of respect towards a community of believers.

Ice Cube intelligently pointed out in Why We Thugs that governments created the ghetto and drug traffic. I do think that poverty, arm and drug traffics do benefit most governments as well as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict benefits many parties in this world. I will never forget how much flabbergasted I was when I learnt that Izhaak Rabin (who is unjustifiedly hailed as a hero) was having dinners with Yassir Arafat!

The great of this world often want to get the biggest parts of the cake. They are trying to brainwash and blind average citizens in order to induce poverty, encourage drug traffics on a large scale and make their dirty hidden businesses.

Why punish drug users severely when you should attack big dealers? Why point an angry finger at the unemployed when you could give them decent jobs? Why make empty speeches about tackling gang crime when you could arrest gun smugglers first?

Why complain about rap music when you are the main responsible of what some emcees are talking about?

Have you ever considered that if the world is not turning right, the most powerful countries governments might have a huge part of responsibilities for it?

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