I watched the Debates and I didn't know about the plagerism charge, but after seeing that debacle,, Hillary was right,, what a copy cat.. and of course LADIES FIRST, I saw him taking notes.. and HELLO PRESS ONE FOR ENGLISH
I can't believe the Audacity of that questions.. What is the downside of BILINGUAL America. Try BILLIONS of dollars of just converting all the literature in other langusges.. Spanish, next thing you know we will have a five screen TV
Snoop Dog translating Eubonics, Islamic languges, and then Spanish and then the other 170 languages
Ok do it,, take over I don't care, I will live taking English withe as an ex patriot and Good Luck translating the Founding Fathers papers into 170 languages..
See ya.
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Thursday, February 21, 2008
Obama and Press ONE for English..
Wow I am relieved to know that the school Obama went to is not a "madrassa"
which brings me too..PRESS ONE FOR ENGLISH
UTUBE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEJfS1v-fU0
JAKARTA, Indonesia (CNN) -- Allegations that Sen. Barack Obama was educated in a radical Muslim school known as a "madrassa" are not accurate, according to CNN reporting.
Insight Magazine, which is owned by the same company as The Washington Times, reported on its Web site last week that associates of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-New York, had unearthed information the Illinois Democrat and likely presidential candidate attended a Muslim religious school known for teaching the most fundamentalist form of Islam.
Obama lived in Indonesia as a child, from 1967 to 1971, with his mother and stepfather and has acknowledged attending a Muslim school, but an aide said it was not a madrassa.
Insight attributed the information in its article to an unnamed source, who said it was discovered by "researchers connected to Senator Clinton." A spokesman for Clinton, who is also weighing a White House bid, denied that the campaign was the source of the Obama claim.
Insight stood by its story in a response posted on its Web site Monday afternoon.
The Insight article was cited several times Friday on Fox News and was also referenced by the New York Post, The Glenn Beck program on CNN Headline News and a number of political blogs. (Watch how the Obama "gossip" spread )
School not a madrassa
But reporting by CNN in Jakarta, Indonesia and Washington, D.C., shows the allegations that Obama attended a madrassa to be false. CNN dispatched Senior International Correspondent John Vause to Jakarta to investigate.
He visited the Basuki school, which Obama attended from 1969 to 1971.
"This is a public school. We don't focus on religion," Hardi Priyono, deputy headmaster of the Basuki school, told Vause. "In our daily lives, we try to respect religion, but we don't give preferential treatment."
Vause reported he saw boys and girls dressed in neat school uniforms playing outside the school, while teachers were dressed in Western-style clothes.
"I came here to Barack Obama's elementary school in Jakarta looking for what some are calling an Islamic madrassa ... like the ones that teach hate and violence in Pakistan and Afghanistan," Vause said on the "Situation Room" Monday. "I've been to those madrassas in Pakistan ... this school is nothing like that."
Vause also interviewed one of Obama's Basuki classmates, Bandug Winadijanto, who claims that not a lot has changed at the school since the two men were pupils. Insight reported that Obama's political opponents believed the school promoted Wahhabism, a fundamentalist form of Islam, "and are seeking to prove it."
"It's not (an) Islamic school. It's general," Winadijanto said. "There is a lot of Christians, Buddhists, also Confucian. ... So that's a mixed school."
Obama has noted in his two books, "Dreams From My Father" and "The Audacity of Hope," that he spent two years in a Muslim school and another two years in a Catholic school while living in Indonesia from age 6 to 10.
WHAT THE HELL IS A madrassa? HELLO.. now I also have to know what a Muslim school is and in another language.. this campaign gets worse by the minute
And I am so GLAD that Obama News Network formerly known as CNN cleared up that burning controversy,, that the report that he attended a muslim school was inaccurate because it was not a madrassa.. am I still speaking English or what?
which brings me too..PRESS ONE FOR ENGLISH
UTUBE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEJfS1v-fU0
JAKARTA, Indonesia (CNN) -- Allegations that Sen. Barack Obama was educated in a radical Muslim school known as a "madrassa" are not accurate, according to CNN reporting.
Insight Magazine, which is owned by the same company as The Washington Times, reported on its Web site last week that associates of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-New York, had unearthed information the Illinois Democrat and likely presidential candidate attended a Muslim religious school known for teaching the most fundamentalist form of Islam.
Obama lived in Indonesia as a child, from 1967 to 1971, with his mother and stepfather and has acknowledged attending a Muslim school, but an aide said it was not a madrassa.
Insight attributed the information in its article to an unnamed source, who said it was discovered by "researchers connected to Senator Clinton." A spokesman for Clinton, who is also weighing a White House bid, denied that the campaign was the source of the Obama claim.
Insight stood by its story in a response posted on its Web site Monday afternoon.
The Insight article was cited several times Friday on Fox News and was also referenced by the New York Post, The Glenn Beck program on CNN Headline News and a number of political blogs. (Watch how the Obama "gossip" spread )
School not a madrassa
But reporting by CNN in Jakarta, Indonesia and Washington, D.C., shows the allegations that Obama attended a madrassa to be false. CNN dispatched Senior International Correspondent John Vause to Jakarta to investigate.
He visited the Basuki school, which Obama attended from 1969 to 1971.
"This is a public school. We don't focus on religion," Hardi Priyono, deputy headmaster of the Basuki school, told Vause. "In our daily lives, we try to respect religion, but we don't give preferential treatment."
Vause reported he saw boys and girls dressed in neat school uniforms playing outside the school, while teachers were dressed in Western-style clothes.
"I came here to Barack Obama's elementary school in Jakarta looking for what some are calling an Islamic madrassa ... like the ones that teach hate and violence in Pakistan and Afghanistan," Vause said on the "Situation Room" Monday. "I've been to those madrassas in Pakistan ... this school is nothing like that."
Vause also interviewed one of Obama's Basuki classmates, Bandug Winadijanto, who claims that not a lot has changed at the school since the two men were pupils. Insight reported that Obama's political opponents believed the school promoted Wahhabism, a fundamentalist form of Islam, "and are seeking to prove it."
"It's not (an) Islamic school. It's general," Winadijanto said. "There is a lot of Christians, Buddhists, also Confucian. ... So that's a mixed school."
Obama has noted in his two books, "Dreams From My Father" and "The Audacity of Hope," that he spent two years in a Muslim school and another two years in a Catholic school while living in Indonesia from age 6 to 10.
WHAT THE HELL IS A madrassa? HELLO.. now I also have to know what a Muslim school is and in another language.. this campaign gets worse by the minute
And I am so GLAD that Obama News Network formerly known as CNN cleared up that burning controversy,, that the report that he attended a muslim school was inaccurate because it was not a madrassa.. am I still speaking English or what?
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Castro resigns
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/19/wcastro219.xml
Fidel Castro resigns as president of Cuba
By Bonnie Malkin
Last Updated: 11:46am GMT 19/02/2008
Fidel Castro has resigned after 50 years as president and commander in chief of Cuba, leaving power in the hands of his brother Raul.
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Resignation statement in full | Castro in quotes
In a message published in the online version of the official state newspaper Granma, he said he would not return to lead the country.
Castro took power in a 1959 revolution
"To my dear compatriots, who gave me the immense honour in recent days of electing me a member of parliament... communicate to you that I neither will aspire to nor will I accept - I repeat - I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief."
"It would betray my conscience to take up a responsibility that requires mobility and total devotion, that I am not in physical condition to offer," he said.
Castro's message came just five days before a historic session in the National Assembly in which he was up for reelection for another five-year mandate.
But the National Assembly is now expected to nominate his brother and designated successor Raul Castro, 76, as president.
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