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At the Kennedy School of Government today said Alex Castellanos, for his notorious dirt campaigns Republican campaign manager. His “Study Group”, which is still up after the election will meet every week, is completely overrun. Castellanos is a witty, charismatic man to fifty. At the beginning is a bowl with Süßkram around, from students to use. “I am a conservative Republican, I prefer to say the same, and from this perspective, I speak here,” sends Castellanos anticipated. He asks: Who will be here this year for the first time to choose? A majority.

Who has ever been elected republican? A single log shy. “We can do in these halls as a diversity let them!” General laughter, Castellanos, the people on his side. “Okay, then we want to talk about times drüber how to cynically manipulate public opinion.” Again laughter. Castellanos was the last campaign of 100 million U.S. dollars to help Kerry to do. What he then also, with Kerry’s support, has managed. The democratic candidate was seen as soft on defense ready made, the Vietnam veteran stature was not (after some Freischärlergruppen it with the “Swift Boat ads,” had attacked).
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Barack Obama was elected the 44th President of the United States on November 4th, 2008 in Chicago.

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The Internet also allows for faster political information to spread to network, update and the interactive exchange to stimulate. You may make a profit for the vote to see democracy. In addition, the risks can not be underestimated. For a sensible decision at the ballot box voters do not primarily more information, but better orientation in Kampfgewimmel of slogans, propaganda and allegations opposite. Whether this and the distinction between inferior and trustworthy informants on the Internet can be better than on conventional media, is open. Equally uncertain is the change suggestive of the influence of propaganda, which may prompt on the screen: “Say no - here and now.” “Emotional Vote» via instant click of the mouse may therefore increase compared to today, where between propaganda and influence Abstimmungsakt still completing a slip , The envelopes and tape up a gear to the mailbox is located.

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John Mellencamp, an artist politically aware and alert, was pleased by a statement on its website the election of Barack Obama as president of the USA.

“A deeply moved John Mellencamp spoke this morning about the election of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States.

“This for me is something I never thought I would see in my life,” said Mellencamp, echoing a feeling common to millions of Americans black and white and all colors in-between-especially those who came of age in the 1960s.

“I remember the Assassination of Martin Luther King and the marches in Selma, Alabama, and seeing Rosa Parks, demonstrators getting sprayed by fire Hoses and attacked by police dogs and all the other horrible things that happened at that time in our country,” he continued. “Then I played at the 2004 Democratic Convention, which was my first introduction to Barack Obama, and after his keynote address I looked at my wife Elaine and said, ‘Man, what a poet! I could be president of the United States! ‘And that’s absolutely verbatim.

“But even I, who have written countless songs about race, could not believe that a man of color could be president of the United States. But today I am so proud of America. I am so happy for all Americans, that we have finally started to fulfill our obligation to the immortal words of our Declaration of Independence, that all men are created equal. We can not expect this man to immediately change the last eight years of fear and deception, but I think we can Rejoice in the fact that there is someone speaking not just for his own interests, now, but hopefully as a voice for us all. “

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Washington (AP) Barack Obama is at his swearing in as the 44th President of the United States use the same Bible, like his role model, Abraham Lincoln. The Bible is part of the extensive collection of the Congress Library. Obama is the first president since Lincoln, who just this oath on the Bible used.

“The elected president feels very honored that the Congress Library to Lincoln Bible for his swearing available,” said the chairman of the Committee for the inauguration of the president, Emmett Beliveau, on Tuesday.

Obama is the celebration of his inauguration on 20 January in memory of the great presidents even before the Lincoln Memorial in Washington begin. The journey to Washington from his home state of Illinois is on the same railway line, which Lincoln 1861 in the US-led capital.

On 12 February next year anniversary of Lincoln’s birthday of the 200th Like Obama time he began his political career in Illinois. Lincoln reigned as the 16th President of the United States from 1861 until his assassination 1865. He is considered one of the greatest presidents in U.S. history. Lincoln led the country through the Civil War and abolished slavery from.

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A shoe factory in Turkey had to hire 100 additional employees to cope with the increase in orders after the incident in which an Iraqi journalist he launched his pair of shoes to U.S. President George W. Bush.

Bayda has his shoe factory in Istanbul and said that was what made the shoes.

Now says it has tens of thousands of orders throughout the world, including Iraq and the United States. The shoe is the Model 271 but after the fact he changed the name to the shoe Bush, said the shoe store.

However, the brother of journalist Muntader al-Zaidi, who launched the shoes to U.S. president, believes the pair is manufactured in Iraq. Durgham al-Zaidi criticized by people trying to exploit the action of his brother for commercial purposes.

“The Syrians claim that was made in Syria and the Turks claim that they were. Some suggest that bought in Egypt, but as far as I know those bought in Baghdad and were manufactured in Iraq,” he told the news agency AFP.

It is difficult to determine exactly where they were fabricated and that the journalist has not been seen since the incident eight days ago and the judge in the case says that the shoes were destroyed. In any case, Bogatekin Oner, head of exports of shoes Bayda noted that employees recognized the pattern on the news.

“We saw in the videos and in the newspapers. We have been producing these shoes for ten years, so we know them very well and we can recognize them anywhere,” he told the BBC. The employees say they recognized that in the video is the Model 271.

According to the owner of the shoe store, Ramazan Bayda, a U.S. company ordered 18,000 pairs. In addition some 15,000 additional will be sent to Iraq and a distributor in the UK applied to become a sales representative in Europe. Bogatekin said the shoe was happy with the publicity but insisted that the shoe would not hurt to President Bush. “There’s really no shoes are heavy so it would not hurt,” he said.

Muntadar al-Zaidi has been declared a hero by some after his pair of shoes thrown at Bush during a press conference in Baghdad on Dec. 14. That action is considered a very grave insult in the Arab world.

Bush also called for “dog” and said it was acting on the “widows and orphans and all those who died in Iraq.” Is expected to be tried on December 31 charged with “aggression against a foreign head of state” which implies a penalty of up to 15 years in prison.

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2008 slip away, but the rituals do not change media. Time magazine awarded the prize personality of the year on Wednesday. And the winner is … Barack Obama. The elected president is followed by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Nicolas Sarkozy. Sarah Palin, ambushed, arrives at the 4th place of honor. Abstract images with Associated Press.Comments of Time “for his insurance to outline ambitious future in this dark period, and for its ability to show qualities that give hope to Americans that it can achieve, the president-elect is the personality of the year Time.

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Just go, on profit that the United States are not ready for a woman or a representative of racial minorities. Theory which has been unanimously, the results of presidential elections have, in fino, spray.

A black man against a backdrop of white house. The official photo of President-elect apparently does not lack contrast. It may be déjà vu for fans of Morgan Freeman, but it is a first in Real Show.

The “Negro” marker for the pseudo-scientific theory establishing natural right to slavery, to “Afro-American”. Jim Crow laws of segregation, until the presidential elections in 2008. Nothing is impossible and definitely we can legitimately go four ways.

In any well honorably, a post-racial America praised its new president: Barack Obama.

True to himself throughout this marathon companion, the candidate for the famous and eternal slogan “change we need” will man the situation. The attacks of September 11, the policy against terrorism, wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Patriot Act, then the subprime crisis and the plan Paulson finally BUSH brief review is all the right things that the Americans vote for change.

After eight years of reign neoconservative hard, stubbornly paranoid warmongering and gasoline, Obama raised a great enthusiasm among U.S. and creates a real passion to the world. Up hill and down dale, he is Chairman Post identity, post-modern, cosmopolitan and multilateralist.

As the rhetoric, his perfect mastery of the English language and techniques of speaking up as the black Demosthenes of modern times. The Philadelphia speech on race and the Berlin say a lot about his eloquence. He often blame its rigidity, OBAMA is a white-collar elite, although it is a true black on playgrounds, he rarely used the self, a custom in American political life since Clinton and what BUSH excelled , In the absence of anything else.

The question of identity, pitfalls in principle was seen, manageable. For the more nostalgic, the new president of the United States entered the cemetery of error Sartre and shakes his negritude poetic in his grave. Nevertheless qu’OBAMA understood that play on the register of racism mènerai the impasse. Black father and mother Blonde, he capitalized on his identity sometimes mixed sometimes biracial. It symbolized the union as well. Ghetto bond obligation, it would turn into boomerangs attacks from this time of his clan. Some try within the African American community have created a distorted between those who identify themselves as black southerners descendants of slaves and those from immigrant families - where OBAMA-considered elitist. Faced with this hardening of the Democratic Party of obedience is not the wish of black candidate but a black candidate. To save his, the candidate spoke former professo. The color is in no way a program for a presidential candidate. And so he was able to deal with the issue affinity identity remarkable. [More]

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The president-elect of the United States, Barack Obama, has been elected “Man of the Year” for 2008 by Time magazine, which ensures that the next occupant of the White House in just two years has gone from being an unknown to half the country to dominate its public arena.

It has come to the U.S. scene as a thunderclap, has relocated our policy, a fact shattered decades of conventional wisdom and overcome centuries of social hierarchy,” says the magazine to explain some of the reasons for their choice.

In Obama, who number 44 will be the chairman of the history of U.S. from January 20, the publication says U.S. too, that in addition to these symbolic events, his election victory has come at a time of crisis and “reacted in an unprecedented manner to form an administration that provides confidence in a world in full shock. ” [More]

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Iraqi journalist’s brother, expected by throwing Zaidi U.S. President Pferada shoes in Baghdad last Sunday that his brother was severely beaten by Iraqi forces.

The newspaper quoted “Arab” country in its issue on Tuesday, Uday al-Zaidi, “Bush, brother of shoes embedded” The fate of his brother is still unknown, “it went to the Green Zone and the airport prison: the search for my brother to no avail, as informed by the Iraqi army that I knew Brother expected that we must forget expected, and I quote Ansuh. ”

The brother of al-Zaidi, expressed fears for the life of his brother, pointing out that the photographer who was embedded during the coverage of the al-Zaidi, who was detained for some time and then released, “said Li was expected to severe beatings by members of the Iraqi and American security, and that at best it would be if the Suffering fractures throughout his body. ” [More]

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