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The Inauguration (2)
January 20th, 2009 by Roger Darlington
I watched the inauguration of Barack Obama live and felt that I was sharing in history. Amazingly he stumbled over his lines in the actual swearing of the oath of office, but he delivered his 20 minute inaugural speech flawlessly. You can see and read it here.
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The Inauguration (1)
January 20th, 2009 by Roger Darlington
Today worldwide only one story can be the top news item – the inauguration of America’s 44th and first black president. So, just a reminder …. I first blogged about Barack Obama on 12 April 2004 [see that posting here]. I blogged 11 times on the Illinois Senate race won by Obama on 4 November […]
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Obamamania hits the USA – and the world
January 18th, 2009 by Roger Darlington
A friend in the United States has e-mailed me as follows: “We’re all excited here about Obama’s inauguration. The security is incredible–expanded security zone around the Mall area, Virginia bridges closed to cars, bomb trucks, etc. But everyone understands why it is necessary. I’m staying out of town myself, but we’re doing a pre-inaugural party […]
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US Senate race still not over
December 20th, 2008 by Roger Darlington
We still don’t know the actual composition of the United States Senate that will face President-elect Obama for the next two years. There’s been a lot of publicity about the choices to be made to replace Barack Obama (Jesse Jackson Jr?) and Hillary Clinton (Caroline Kennedy?), with a stench of scandal surrounding the first and […]
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What Americans believe
December 12th, 2008 by Roger Darlington
There’s some fascinating data here – including the information that 24% of Americans believe that they were once someone else. I guess that I would find it hard to be an American – of the 17 beliefs tested, I only hold one (a belief in evolution) and apparently that is a minority view in the […]
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A message from America
December 10th, 2008 by Roger Darlington
From a viral e-mail that is making the rounds: To: The World From: The USA Subject: Technical Notice Dear World, The United States of America, your quality supplier of ideals of liberty and democracy, would like to apologize for its 2001-2008 service outage. The technical fault that led to this eight-year service interruption has been […]
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Obama and Clinton – a dream team?
December 2nd, 2008 by Roger Darlington
After weeks of speculation, President-elect Barack Obama has now confirmed that his Secretary of State will be his arch-rival for the Democratic nomination Hillary Clinton. Now three months ago, when Clinton gave her endorsement speech at the Democratic National Convention, I did a posting which argued: “If I was Barack Obama, I would promise that […]
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American and British political systems
November 29th, 2008 by Roger Darlington
Now that the dust has settled on the American presidential election (although the Electoral College does not actually vote until 15 December), I’ve pulled together some of my blog postings and expanded them a little to create a new web page on “Contrasts Between The American And British Political Systems”.
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Obama – the first Net president (2)
November 26th, 2008 by Roger Darlington
I did an earlier posting about how Barack Obama could take the Internet tools he used in his successful campaign into his Presidency so that his supporters continue to play a role. As this “Newsweek” article puts it: “Barack Obama is the first major politician who really “gets” the Internet. Sure, Howard Dean used the […]
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Obama – the first Net president (1)
November 16th, 2008 by Roger Darlington
It is widely accepted that Barack Obama has made cleverer and more extensive use of the Internet than any previous politician in any country. This should not stop once he enters the Oval Office. Obama was fighting not just to win an election but to change a nation and ultimately change the world. This requires […]
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