Obladi, Obama -- Life Really Goes On

AND countless people across the land of the Dream Possible called USA woke up today to the great expectations of a Kennedy era rebirth -- first balck American President Barack Obama has revived and inflamed that eternal spring of HOPE. And across the seven seas similar expectations are being built up, primarily because the winner of the just ended US presodential race is a NON-white, which marks a landmark sea-change in a world that truly needs a new lens-scape where colour recedes and meritocracy steps forward. The nodern human race calls this civilisational progress. I call it humanity at its best.

So let's go out and declare today and the next four years a long wickend/wickedend holiday -- YOU WORK FIVE DAYS, and then RnRnR for three days! Remember that it was always the dream of man to make time?


Yes, the Beatles too!
EIGHT DAYS A WEEK.

That extra holiday is decalred PRIME DAY at My Blue He'aven.
At this abode, Desi is the king, so ask no question, just sit back,
ENJOY the extra 24 relaxing by Port Dickson beach, paint the sky red;
if you hail from Ozland, go to Redhead beach, and yes, pain the sky blue
It's for Me and You,
Kennedy-inspired now Obama-rebirthed citizens of the world
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END THE INTERNAL SECURITY ACT!

Come sing a SONG OF HOPE AND FREEDOM TOMORROW in FURONG:)

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SECOND ANTI-ISA CANDLELIGHT VIGIL IN SEREMBAN

In Solidarity with Raja Petra Kamarudin and All ISA Detainees

Venue: DATARAN SEREMBAN PARK

Date/Time: Friday, November 7, 2008 at 8.00PM – 10.00PM

Contact: ANGELA OOI 019-3628367
YL Chong 012-9702285 (Ref: desiderata2000.blogspot.com)

ALL MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC ARE INVITED TO TAKE PART:)
PLEASE BRING YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS ALONG!

Let's join the Beatles in keeping John Lennon's legacy burning
bright
at the Dataran Seremaban Parl 24 hence:)

Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today...

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace...

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one

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From
NEWS.com.au
US Presidential Election News

Barack Obama's campaign of change brings weight of great expectations
By Stefanie Balogh
Herald Sun
November 06, 2008 03:35am


***** Pelosi: great expectations for Obama ***** (Imagine you're looking at Pelosii!--Desi)

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said President-elect Barack Obama faces sky-high expectations and...

IT began with a good omen - it was the warmest November day in Chicago since Lyndon B. Johnson's 1964 Democratic landslide turned America blue.

Perhaps Senator Obama was on to something when he promised on the eve of the election that sunshine was on the way.

Now, he must live up to the huge expectations he has created and provide a tangible definition for his promise of change.

Voters undoubtedly see this change as being more jobs, affordable homes, a stable economy and a safe homeland.

It will also mean bringing the troops home from Iraq and rebuilding the tarnished image of the Stars and Stripes abroad.

One in six voters yesterday ranked the recession-bound US economy as the major issue that influenced how they cast their ballots in this transformational election.

Of those, 40 per cent said their circumstances were worse than four years ago.

Three-quarter of voters also told pollsters they believed their nation was on the wrong track under President George Bush - the biggest of vanquished Republican challenger John McCain's many curses.

President-elect Obama must now right the course and restore the confidence of Americans. But with big mandates, come difficulties.



+++++++ He was the candidate of a new generation, as John F. Kennedy had been in 1960. +++++++

Senator McCain underestimated his opponent and his ability to ignite the enthusiasm of young voters, who are notoriously apathetic in the US, and to win over those who were initially distrustful.

As the Republican veteran took weekends off after securing his party's nomination early in the year, Senator Obama was forced to wage a bitter five-month fight against Hillary Clinton across all 50 states for the blessing of the Democrats.

It battle-hardened him and gave the Obama campaign the advantage of constructing a coast-to-coast network of campaign offices, volunteers and workers that demolished the might of the Clinton machine.

They formed the basis of a huge army of enthusiastic supporters and a Big Brother-like database of contact details of people to call on for donations, and even more importantly, for votes.

The skills Senator Obama honed as a community organiser on the South Side of Chicago intersected with new technologies to devastating effect.

Text messaging, YouTube, MySpace and Facebook became part of his political arsenal as he sold his message of hope to millions, and marketed his sheer charisma.

About one in 10 voters cast their ballots for the first time at the election, and Senator Obama won them over by a margin of three to one.

Another key to his victory was that he no longer viewed the American electoral map as a mixture of traditional Republican red and Democratic blue states.

Backed by an unparalleled fundraising ability - he raised more than $US600 million in 21 months - as well as his political gifts and strategic game plan, Senator Obama was able to rip up the rule book.



President-elect Obama must now right the course and restore the confidence of Americans. But with big mandates, come difficulties.



The Democrats control both Houses of Congress, though missing out yesterday on gaining a 60-vote filibuster-proof majority in the Senate.

The new president and his party will now have a monopoly on America's problems.

To win the electoral war of attrition that is the presidential system, Senator Obama had to draw on his political skills and left nothing to chance, strategically constructing an unrivalled battle plan.

His was not so much a political campaign but a social movement for change.

He was the candidate of a new generation, as John F. Kennedy had been in 1960.

Senator McCain underestimated his opponent and his ability to ignite the enthusiasm of young voters, who are notoriously apathetic in the US, and to win over those who were initially distrustful.

As the Republican veteran took weekends off after securing his party's nomination early in the year, Senator Obama was forced to wage a bitter five-month fight against Hillary Clinton across all 50 states for the blessing of the Democrats.

It battle-hardened him and gave the Obama campaign the advantage of constructing a coast-to-coast network of campaign offices, volunteers and workers that demolished the might of the Clinton machine.

They formed the basis of a huge army of enthusiastic supporters and a Big Brother-like database of contact details of people to call on for donations, and even more importantly, for votes.

The skills Senator Obama honed as a community organiser on the South Side of Chicago intersected with new technologies to devastating effect.

Text messaging, YouTube, MySpace and Facebook became part of his political arsenal as he sold his message of hope to millions, and marketed his sheer charisma.

About one in 10 voters cast their ballots for the first time at the election, and Senator Obama won them over by a margin of three to one.

Another key to his victory was that he no longer viewed the American electoral map as a mixture of traditional Republican red and Democratic blue states.

Backed by an unparalleled fundraising ability - he raised more than $US600 million in 21 months - as well as his political gifts and strategic game plan, Senator Obama was able to rip up the rule book.

Meanwhile, down in the polls and up against the most gifted political orator since former president Bill Clinton, Senator McCain sold out his maverick credentials and a past abhorrence of character attacks in an all-out effort to win the White House.

He also gambled by choosing conservative firebrand Sarah Palin, the gun-toting Governor of Alaska, as his running mate.

She energised the Republican base, but alienated the very independent voters he had hoped to attract.

Her impact on the race will be debated for years.

But Senator McCain's luck truly ran out when the full depth of the financial crisis was exposed.

Voters were rightly fearful of a recession and they focused their anger on the economic policies of the Bush Administration.

And they blamed the party of President Bush and Senator McCain for the financial pain they were suffering.

A race that began almost two years ago - in which at times, in his battle against Senator Clinton, Senator Obama had trouble winning over white working-class voters - ended with the Democrat cutting a swathe across the Midwestern heartland to poach what had traditionally been Republican states.

White battlers - who had harboured doubts about an elite black politician with an exotic background, professorial manner and taste for health food - became colour-blind as fears of losing their jobs, homes and retirement accounts took hold.

With nothing to lose, they joined millions of others to embrace hope.

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DESIDERATA:

My HOPE is that such seismic CHANGE will soon come to Malaysian shores.
You have a clour-blind Obama within NegaraKu.
You only need to hold on to your DREAM4CHANGE -- and HOPE --that marked a landmark sea-change in the last General Elections on March 8, 2008. Dear EsteemedReaders, now it's your duty to nurse it, flower it, embrace it!

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