If The World Could Vote

Check for yourself the results globally and country by country. You can actually cast your vote.

This in no way means that Obama is popular, what it means for sure is that the world is tired and exhausted of the neoconist Bush years, and desperately want some change. Will there be change ? We still have to see...But better vote for an improbable change than for a highly probable repetition of the last eight years.

'Is there something wrong being a Muslim in this country ?'

Barack Obama is labeled by his detractors as a Muslim. But he is a Christian. However, many in the US consider the Muslim religious label as an indicator of something bad, passively spreading and perpetuating racist préjugés against a religion.
Finally, what has become a racist pervasiveness in the mind of many US citizen was condemned today by Colin Powell during his endorsement of Barack Obama at 'Meet the press'. And believe me, Powell must have had some courage to question this pervasive racism as nobody else did it so clearly since 9-11. Watch it around minute 4 and 45 seconds.

Maureen Dowd: 'Moved by a crescent'

Michael Tomasky commenting Powell's endorsement in The Guardian:

"...What if he is? Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer's no, that's not America. Is there something wrong with some seven-year-old Muslim-American kid believing that he or she could be president?"
He then described a picture he'd seen in a magazine of a grieving mother at the tombstone of her son, a soldier who had died in Iraq. The tombstone listed his age and awards, Powell said, but across the top "it didn't have a Christian cross. It didn't have a Star of David. It had a crescent and a star of the Islamic faith."
It was incredibly moving - the words and the anecdote were extremely well chosen, and they're worth dwelling on for two reasons. First, it's needed saying for months now that there's nothing wrong with being a Muslim in this country. And second, it's not too much to say that, of all the political leaders in America, only Colin Powell could have said these things and made them stick. A Democrat making that case would be seen as just another politically correct harpy. It's pretty different coming from a Republican and a soldier.

More bigotry: For McCain, an Arab is not a decent family man.

Media Frenzy About Palin: Nauseating

The media frenzy around republican VP nominee is just nauseating. Again and again the media are irresponsibly falling in the trap, and many citizens are being brain-washed by this frenzy and distracted from the real issues.

Dennis Kucinich : Simply Amazing

McCain, Hezbollah, Arab-Americans and Bigots

A post worth mentioning from a Kos diarist.

The Israel factor in the US elections: An Israeli panel ranks presidential candidates

One year and a half before the coming 2008 US presidential elections, An Israeli panel is giving marks to candidates, week by week, based on their speeches at The American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), sponsored policies, and declarations. (Members of the Panel, which is an AIPAC bis).

I am sure Sarkozy can beat them all.
(Link found on Angry Arab)