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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TARADO96 who wrote (25025)	6/29/2008 9:39:37 PM
From: Fiscally Conservative	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

And ending on that note,have you noticed the Shanghai Composite is up over 14% tonight? Or is my screen failing me again?

To: TARADO96 who wrote (25025)	6/29/2008 10:15:38 PM
From: SiouxPal	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 149317

Basically nuclear power is too good for our little minds to perceive. They regulate it so much that the time to build one is extravagant. The effluent is water. I sell stuff to nuke plants, and no human has died at one from radiation. Our current technology is awesome compared to the last plant we built. The opponents argue as to where we deposit the spent fuel. All of the nuclear spent fuel ever created in America can be placed into a smaller area than a football field. Meanwhile our coal miners die every day from coal dust. (Black lung) We desecrate our land with strip mining. Our CO2 emissions will change our planet's and our children's lives. While America remains stupid other countries have become wiser. Stupid is as stupid does.

To: TARADO96 who wrote (25025)	6/30/2008 8:34:10 AM
From: ChinuSFO	Respond to of 149317

The US is not ready for globalization.

To: TARADO96 who wrote (25025)	1/25/2009 12:27:02 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Respond to of 149317

A great time to be an American again. ====================================== No Aussie Obama in sight January 25, 2009 12:00am A CALL from a young woman in Alice Springs near the end of Wednesday's radio program said a lot about how far Australia still has to go before we can celebrate the rise of our own Barack Obama. She had been listening for three hours as we heaped praise on the new President and a nation brave enough to take a gamble on him. Alice Springs, she said, was the Aboriginal capital of Australia, but it was unlikely they would produce an Obama of their own with the sort of attitudes she still encounters. The caller complained about a local motel owner turning away an out-of-town swim team because they were Aboriginal. But it was the incident at her local shopping centre that really got her angry. A nephew had been visiting and they decided to do some shopping, including a new pair of shoes for the little boy. As they walked in, the youngster stopped his aunt and said he feared going in because the security guards had stopped him before for not having shoes on. The boy had been kicked out. She was having none of it. She grabbed his hand and marched into the shoe store. Next time she goes there, she says, she's going to go barefoot. Tuesday (US time) was a day to treasure in the US - one of those rare, where-were-you-when-that-happened kind of days. Filtering it through Australian eyes did bring you back to earth. Witnessing history as an African American was inaugurated into the highest office made you think about our own indigenous population and wonder where their leaders are and why they're not in Parliament. Standing, as I was, on Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard, you couldn't help but think of "the Block'' in Redfern and wonder if, as Harlem has been, it will ever be cleaned up and made safe. Taking the subway to Harlem would have been unthinkable 15 years ago, but today it's a two-dollar train ride to 125th St and a four-block walk down to the old Apollo Theatre. No one appears threatening, and the streets around Malcolm X Boulevard - where riots broke out after King was assassinated - have largely been gentrified. Sylvia's, a famous soul-food restaurant, was playing King's haunting ``I had a dream'' speech on a continous loop the day before the inauguration. Sylvia's son, Kenny Woods, went to school across the road from the restaurant. He can recall when it was a dangerous place to live. Now he talks about how Bill and Hillary Clinton drop in for lunch from Clinton's office around the corner. Harlem is a nicer place than Redfern. Australians watching the day unfold were also struck by just how good an orator the new President is compared with our own politicians. A senior Cabinet minister, pressed to nominate any Australian politician who came close to Obama, offered up Robert Menzies and Gough Whitlam. \I can't judge Menzies and I remember Whitlam's off-the-cuff challenge to the governor-general the day he was sacked, but not much else. Australia has had some great speechwriters but, Paul Keating aside, very few memorable speech-givers. And inauguration day showed us up when it comes to ceremony and parades. The Americans are world-class when it comes to recognising their history and showing off. Can you imagine two million people turning out in Canberra, packing the space between the War Memorial and old Parliament House to celebrate the election of Kevin Rudd or John Howard? We'd be lucky to get two thousand. Obama is obviously a charismatic, once-in-a-generation leader. He's the JFK of our time, with a little Bill Clinton rolled in there. A BlackBerry-carrying leader who can even dance. Let's hope he can also inspire the little kids in our country, such as that barefoot boy in Alice Springs, to do great things. Steve Price is on 2UE daily from 9a.m. his email is steveprice@2ue.com.au news.com.au