The dream of millions of Americans came true!
(images from National Post and New York Times)
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Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Yes, he can!
The dream of millions of Americans came true!
(images from National Post and New York Times)
Hochrechnungen
CNN 9.30pm Eastern Time
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CNN 11.30pm Eastern Time
Final Result Nov 17th
270 Votes are necessary to become the New President of the United States
CNN 10.30pm Eastern Time
CNN 11pm Eastern Time
CNN 11.30pm Eastern Time
Final Result Nov 17th
270 Votes are necessary to become the New President of the United States
Election Day
Finally THE day came.
This morning when I left the house I was surprised by the big queue in front of the entrance of Cambridge City Hall.
Of course, I knew that today is THE day, but I didn't expect a queue. In Germany voting is not so popular, even worse the participation rates dropped dramatically during the last years. The only time that I have seen queues in front of polls was on TV when there were the first democratic votes ever in some tiny African country.
Apropos democratic: Anyone of the German readers NOT convinced that Obama will win?
It is more than voting, it is voting for an extraordinary person that led to a wave of enthusiasm especially among young people.
I am super curious about the result. But also a little afraid. What happens if Obama loses? Even if no one can imagine it right now?
Do you remember my post from August? Where I wrote about the historical day of the nomination of Barack Obama as the presidential candidate of the Democrats?
Today is an even more historical day: the first Afroamerican as a candidate, and even better he is the candidate leading in the surveys.
And today will hopefully be the most historical day in this row..........
And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today!"
(Martin Luther King)
I have a dream, and millions of Americans have it too! Let the dream come true!
This morning when I left the house I was surprised by the big queue in front of the entrance of Cambridge City Hall.
Of course, I knew that today is THE day, but I didn't expect a queue. In Germany voting is not so popular, even worse the participation rates dropped dramatically during the last years. The only time that I have seen queues in front of polls was on TV when there were the first democratic votes ever in some tiny African country.
Apropos democratic: Anyone of the German readers NOT convinced that Obama will win?
It is more than voting, it is voting for an extraordinary person that led to a wave of enthusiasm especially among young people.
I am super curious about the result. But also a little afraid. What happens if Obama loses? Even if no one can imagine it right now?
Do you remember my post from August? Where I wrote about the historical day of the nomination of Barack Obama as the presidential candidate of the Democrats?
Today is an even more historical day: the first Afroamerican as a candidate, and even better he is the candidate leading in the surveys.
And today will hopefully be the most historical day in this row..........
And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today!"
(Martin Luther King)
I have a dream, and millions of Americans have it too! Let the dream come true!
Thursday, October 2, 2008
A european-biased view on politics.....
....or what a German medical student living in the United States throughout the entire run on the White House thinks while watching the Vice Presidential Debate (supported by a parallel Skype discussion with a German friend watching the debate in Germany at the same time):
Photo and quotes retrieved from http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=856334
There was no clear winner of this debate, at least not for the average listener - you really had to stay with the conversation the whole time to remember the question that was originally asked and that was then more or less skillfully turned by Sarah Palin onto a field she was familiar with - literally the family ;-)
Now I know that she never earned more than 250 000 dollars a year (before the run for vice president) and that her grandfather, daddy and brother are teachers. But I am not convinced that she fundamentally knows what is going on in politics.
Palin's answer on a question about the financial crisis:
"Darn right it was the predator lenders who tried to talk Americans into buying a $300,000 house if we could only buy a $100,000 house. The Joe Six Pack, hockey moms across the nation, we need to band together and say never again. Never again will we be exploited."
Or her answer to the question if she believes that the handling of the situation in Isreal was a failure of the current US administration: (I don't remember the exact words) yes, you know, hmmmm ...... but what I am really interested in is our common love for this country in the middle-east. Let's talk about that
My favorite of her slips of the tongue definitely was: "Yes, he [McCain] is ready to leave,...... hm lead."
Yes, you see, kind of biased:
Biden is maybe not the obvious winner of this debate, but people who really listened to what he was saying heard that his words contained fundamental knowledge and experience.
And what did I learn?
Maybe I found out how to achieve an incredible mark in my oral state exam next year. I just need to improve my skills on how to turn questions in the right direction, so that they do not cover a black hole in my knowledge, but let me show my extraordinary excellence in some very tiny field of medicine (for example Imaging techniques for metastatic spread in breast cancer ;-) )
Photo and quotes retrieved from http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=856334
There was no clear winner of this debate, at least not for the average listener - you really had to stay with the conversation the whole time to remember the question that was originally asked and that was then more or less skillfully turned by Sarah Palin onto a field she was familiar with - literally the family ;-)
Now I know that she never earned more than 250 000 dollars a year (before the run for vice president) and that her grandfather, daddy and brother are teachers. But I am not convinced that she fundamentally knows what is going on in politics.
Palin's answer on a question about the financial crisis:
"Darn right it was the predator lenders who tried to talk Americans into buying a $300,000 house if we could only buy a $100,000 house. The Joe Six Pack, hockey moms across the nation, we need to band together and say never again. Never again will we be exploited."
Or her answer to the question if she believes that the handling of the situation in Isreal was a failure of the current US administration: (I don't remember the exact words) yes, you know, hmmmm ...... but what I am really interested in is our common love for this country in the middle-east. Let's talk about that
My favorite of her slips of the tongue definitely was: "Yes, he [McCain] is ready to leave,...... hm lead."
Yes, you see, kind of biased:
Biden is maybe not the obvious winner of this debate, but people who really listened to what he was saying heard that his words contained fundamental knowledge and experience.
And what did I learn?
Maybe I found out how to achieve an incredible mark in my oral state exam next year. I just need to improve my skills on how to turn questions in the right direction, so that they do not cover a black hole in my knowledge, but let me show my extraordinary excellence in some very tiny field of medicine (for example Imaging techniques for metastatic spread in breast cancer ;-) )
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Wahlkampf
Ein ganz normales Schaufenster eines Buchladens:
.... da werden sogar Kinder instrumentalisiert. Klar, Mama und Papa, also potentielle Wähler, lesens ja vor.
.... da werden sogar Kinder instrumentalisiert. Klar, Mama und Papa, also potentielle Wähler, lesens ja vor.
Friday, August 29, 2008
Yes, we can
Nearly one year ago I arrived in Boston, right at the start of the primaries for the US presidential election in November 2008. Now I am even so lucky that I will still be here to see what's happening in the end.In the beginning, I was not sure which candidate of the Democrats I would like more as a president - for the first time in US history a woman or for the first time in US history a black person. But during all the ongoing debates, from news in German TV and news in American TV I got more and more inspired by the charisma of this man who will hopefully decide the right things when they are needed.
Today it was finally officially decided: Barack Obama is the Democratic Candidate for President.
Exactly 45 years ago, on August 29th 2008, Martin Luther King Jr. held his famous speech "I have a dream" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVxaYz0SRMY
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today (Martin Luther King Junior 1963)
With the nomination of Barack Obama, the United States came a little closer to the 45-year-old dream of Martin Luther King.
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Super Tuesday
Primary in 24 US-Staaten
Wer wird Präsidentschaftskandidat für die Democrats und die Republicans?
Dabei stehen die Democrats definitiv im Mittelpunkt. Weil es noch nie so knapp war und es die interessanteren Kandidaten im Lager der Democrats gibt: eine Frau (Hillary Clinton) und einen Schwarzen (Barack Obama)
10pm Eastern Standard Time: an der Ostküste haben die Wahllokale bereits geschlossen
Barack Obama hat in mehr Staaten gewonnen als Hillary Clinton, allerdings nicht in Massachusetts (Clinton 57%, Obama 41% nach Auszählung von 60% der Stimmen), New York und New Jersey
Und an der Westküste sind durch die Zeitverschiebung die Wahllokale noch geöffnet.
Es bleibt spannend diese Nacht.
Wer wird Präsidentschaftskandidat für die Democrats und die Republicans?
Dabei stehen die Democrats definitiv im Mittelpunkt. Weil es noch nie so knapp war und es die interessanteren Kandidaten im Lager der Democrats gibt: eine Frau (Hillary Clinton) und einen Schwarzen (Barack Obama)
10pm Eastern Standard Time: an der Ostküste haben die Wahllokale bereits geschlossen
Barack Obama hat in mehr Staaten gewonnen als Hillary Clinton, allerdings nicht in Massachusetts (Clinton 57%, Obama 41% nach Auszählung von 60% der Stimmen), New York und New Jersey
Und an der Westküste sind durch die Zeitverschiebung die Wahllokale noch geöffnet.
Es bleibt spannend diese Nacht.
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