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11/28/2008
32nd comment received but not published by The New York Times on Nov 28, 2008...
The article was...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/28/opinion/28krugman.html
My respective comment -as follows- has been received on same November 28th, 2008 10:18am...
After the Democrats obliquely profited from the financial meltdown during the last election, it will be an act of justice when the President-elect recognizes that both parties were equally responsible for it...
Nowadays -aside any needed reform inside a country- the world needs to keep advancing without dismay to achieve freer and fairer trade...
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— Pablo Omonte, Lima, Peru
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/28/opinion/28krugman.html
My respective comment -as follows- has been received on same November 28th, 2008 10:18am...
After the Democrats obliquely profited from the financial meltdown during the last election, it will be an act of justice when the President-elect recognizes that both parties were equally responsible for it...
Nowadays -aside any needed reform inside a country- the world needs to keep advancing without dismay to achieve freer and fairer trade...
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— Pablo Omonte, Lima, Peru
11/26/2008
# 71, on Thanksgiving...
71. This last Thursday of November 2008, I join my US friends in thanking God for all the blessings received... The present difficulties notwithstanding, there is ingenuous hope for a brighter future based on same freedom ideals but with a wise economic approach...
11/24/2008
# 70, on my difficulties with the noun liberal...
70. In Latin America I can often agree with so called liberales in Spanish, but in the USA I feel not comfortable with being count as one of the liberals overthere... The shortest explanation may be that while in Latin America a liberal is an advocate for a smaller role of government in our economies, in the USA a liberal has traditionally engaged herself/ himself for a correspondent bigger role of government...
11/22/2008
31st comment received but not published by The New York Times on Nov 22, 2008...
The article was...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/22/opinion/22collins.html
My respective comment -as follows- has been received on same November 22nd, 2008 10:40pm...
An unrested Barack amidst unrealistic expectations would prefer not to shorten this transition...
George W. will keep doing the right thing as ever while Nancy & Harry approve at last the trade agreement with Colombia...
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— Pablo Omonte, Lima, Peru
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/22/opinion/22collins.html
My respective comment -as follows- has been received on same November 22nd, 2008 10:40pm...
An unrested Barack amidst unrealistic expectations would prefer not to shorten this transition...
George W. will keep doing the right thing as ever while Nancy & Harry approve at last the trade agreement with Colombia...
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— Pablo Omonte, Lima, Peru
11/21/2008
30th comment received but not published by The New York Times on Nov 21, 2008...
The article was...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/opinion/21brooks.html
My respective comment -as follows- has been received on same November 21st, 2008 2:16pm...
Meritocracy alone will not secure long-term benefits for the USA... Wisdom supported with deep-rooted honesty will, but you don't necessarily acquire those qualities at an Ivy League school...
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— Pablo Omonte, Lima, Peru
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/opinion/21brooks.html
My respective comment -as follows- has been received on same November 21st, 2008 2:16pm...
Meritocracy alone will not secure long-term benefits for the USA... Wisdom supported with deep-rooted honesty will, but you don't necessarily acquire those qualities at an Ivy League school...
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— Pablo Omonte, Lima, Peru
11/20/2008
29th comment received but not published by The New York Times on Nov 20, 2008...
The article was...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/opinion/20kristof.html
My respective comment -as follows- has been received on same November 20th, 2008 1:57pm...
In dealing with Russia, the new US President may take a few more examples from a hawkish Ronald Reagan than from a dovish John F. Kennedy...
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— Pablo Omonte, Lima, Peru
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/opinion/20kristof.html
My respective comment -as follows- has been received on same November 20th, 2008 1:57pm...
In dealing with Russia, the new US President may take a few more examples from a hawkish Ronald Reagan than from a dovish John F. Kennedy...
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— Pablo Omonte, Lima, Peru
11/19/2008
11/17/2008
28th comment received but not published by The New York Times on Nov 17, 2008...
The article was...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/17/opinion/17kristol.html
My respective comment -as follows- has been received on same November 17th, 2008 10:41pm...
Both parties are to blame for the dominance of voodoo economics during the last decades and let's not obliterate that G-20 countries benefited en masse from the capital artificially created during those years...
Republicans are getting now the most of the blame but the replacement of the internet bubble with a mortgage balloon started with Bill Clinton and in the last years Democrats blocked every highly needed reform in order not to bother those less-informed constituents who were critical to secure their candidate's victory...
I'm confident that the USA is still capable of leading a recovery because the fundamentals -human capital, political & economic principles- are still the strongest in the world...
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— Pablo Omonte, Lima, Peru
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/17/opinion/17kristol.html
My respective comment -as follows- has been received on same November 17th, 2008 10:41pm...
Both parties are to blame for the dominance of voodoo economics during the last decades and let's not obliterate that G-20 countries benefited en masse from the capital artificially created during those years...
Republicans are getting now the most of the blame but the replacement of the internet bubble with a mortgage balloon started with Bill Clinton and in the last years Democrats blocked every highly needed reform in order not to bother those less-informed constituents who were critical to secure their candidate's victory...
I'm confident that the USA is still capable of leading a recovery because the fundamentals -human capital, political & economic principles- are still the strongest in the world...
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— Pablo Omonte, Lima, Peru
11/16/2008
27th comment received but not published by The New York Times on Nov 16, 2008...
The article was...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/opinion/16dowd.html
My respective comment -as follows- has been received on same November 16th, 2008 4:24pm...
All the irony notwithstanding, Hillary is a proved Iron lady who deserves the job... We don't know though what Barack really offered and if she may find it wise to accept...
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— Pablo Omonte, Lima, Peru
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/opinion/16dowd.html
My respective comment -as follows- has been received on same November 16th, 2008 4:24pm...
All the irony notwithstanding, Hillary is a proved Iron lady who deserves the job... We don't know though what Barack really offered and if she may find it wise to accept...
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— Pablo Omonte, Lima, Peru
11/15/2008
26th comment received but not published by The New York Times on Nov 15, 2008...
The article was...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/15/opinion/15blow.html
My respective comment -as follows- has been received on same November 15th, 2008 12:23pm...
Couldn't it be that in 2008 demagoguery crashed pragmatism?...
Since Adolf's triumph -with the media converted into a propaganda machine- one can not trust anymore the wisdom of a popular vote...
The New York Times and the most of its pundits shall be well advised to show up soon with the long expected opinion of their ombudsman before more gloating articles...
If not, I predict a bigger crisis for the Democratic party once Barack's shortcomings amount...
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— Pablo Omonte, Lima, Peru
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/15/opinion/15blow.html
My respective comment -as follows- has been received on same November 15th, 2008 12:23pm...
Couldn't it be that in 2008 demagoguery crashed pragmatism?...
Since Adolf's triumph -with the media converted into a propaganda machine- one can not trust anymore the wisdom of a popular vote...
The New York Times and the most of its pundits shall be well advised to show up soon with the long expected opinion of their ombudsman before more gloating articles...
If not, I predict a bigger crisis for the Democratic party once Barack's shortcomings amount...
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— Pablo Omonte, Lima, Peru
11/14/2008
11/13/2008
25th comment received but not published by The New York Times on Nov 13, 2008...
The article was...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/13/opinion/13kristof.html
My respective comment -as follows- has been received on same November 13th, 2008 9:48am...
The Internet age we're living in shall permit to revamp education all over the world... The whole stuff for basic school, high school, and college can be standardized and made available on-line...
The role e.g. of a teacher may resemble more the one of a coach, who motivates the weaker to improve and the smarter to soar...
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— Pablo Omonte, Lima, Peru
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/13/opinion/13kristof.html
My respective comment -as follows- has been received on same November 13th, 2008 9:48am...
The Internet age we're living in shall permit to revamp education all over the world... The whole stuff for basic school, high school, and college can be standardized and made available on-line...
The role e.g. of a teacher may resemble more the one of a coach, who motivates the weaker to improve and the smarter to soar...
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— Pablo Omonte, Lima, Peru
11/12/2008
24th comment received but not published by The New York Times on Nov 12, 2008...
The article was...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/12/opinion/12dowd.html
My respective comment -as follows- has been received on same November 12th, 2008 9:20am...
Looks like Maureen chooses downrating Sarah rather than venerating Veteran's Day...
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— Pablo Omonte, Lima, Peru
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/12/opinion/12dowd.html
My respective comment -as follows- has been received on same November 12th, 2008 9:20am...
Looks like Maureen chooses downrating Sarah rather than venerating Veteran's Day...
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— Pablo Omonte, Lima, Peru
11/10/2008
# 69, on the President receiving the President-elect at the White House...
69. After all the diatribes with which Barack Hussein Obama Jr. castigated George Walker Bush during the prolongued campaign, by inviting his successor warmly and promptly to the White House the acting President showed something we often missed on the President-elect: Grandeur...
11/09/2008
23rd comment received but not published by The New York Times on Nov 9, 2008...
The article was...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/opinion/09rich.html
My respective comment -as follows- has been received on same November 9th, 2008 10:00am...
I still feel uneasy Frank...
Looks like you and the majority of your colleagues are trying to artificially maintain an exaggerated optimism...
Let's remember the two decisive factors for Barack Hussein's triumph...
1) The unconditional support of the dominant news media, which hates Bush junior more than it loves Obama junior...
2) The huge financial crisis, which unjustly benefited the mortgage-reform-opposing Democratic party...
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— Pablo Omonte, Lima, Peru
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/opinion/09rich.html
My respective comment -as follows- has been received on same November 9th, 2008 10:00am...
I still feel uneasy Frank...
Looks like you and the majority of your colleagues are trying to artificially maintain an exaggerated optimism...
Let's remember the two decisive factors for Barack Hussein's triumph...
1) The unconditional support of the dominant news media, which hates Bush junior more than it loves Obama junior...
2) The huge financial crisis, which unjustly benefited the mortgage-reform-opposing Democratic party...
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— Pablo Omonte, Lima, Peru
Comment sent to The Wall Street Journal on Nov 8, 2008...
After reading the article
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122593304225103509.html
I did send following comment to The Wall Street Journal on November 8th, 2008...
True winner of Nov 2008 was the most part of the US media, which was committed to destroy George W. Bush since at least 2003 and inflating Barack H. Obama since at least 2007...
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Pablo Omonte, Lima, Peru
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122593304225103509.html
I did send following comment to The Wall Street Journal on November 8th, 2008...
True winner of Nov 2008 was the most part of the US media, which was committed to destroy George W. Bush since at least 2003 and inflating Barack H. Obama since at least 2007...
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Pablo Omonte, Lima, Peru
11/08/2008
22nd comment received but not published by The New York Times on Nov 8, 2008...
The article was...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/08/opinion/08collins.html
My respective comment -as follows- has been received on same November 8th, 2008 9:20am...
At least I wasn't betting my house in Lima that John would be elected... I trust my American fellows but not sooo much... :p
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— Pablo Omonte, Lima, Peru
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/08/opinion/08collins.html
My respective comment -as follows- has been received on same November 8th, 2008 9:20am...
At least I wasn't betting my house in Lima that John would be elected... I trust my American fellows but not sooo much... :p
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— Pablo Omonte, Lima, Peru
21st comment received but not published by The New York Times on Nov 8, 2008...
The article was...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/08/opinion/08herbert.html
My respective comment -as follows- has been received on same November 8th, 2008 8:43am...
All the hype shall not distract us of sobering fairness... Were it not for the anti-Bush propaganda, Obama wouldn't have won...
But let's not forget that it was George W. Bush who appointed a wonderful and well prepared lady like Condoleezza Rice as Secretary of State... At the latest then it was crystal clear that the USA has overcome racial barriers...
In the last election I wished all Americans would show to the World that they have become in the meantime also genuinely post-racial and would elect the candidate with the best credentials for the job...
I was a little bit disappointed...
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— Pablo Omonte, Lima, Peru
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/08/opinion/08herbert.html
My respective comment -as follows- has been received on same November 8th, 2008 8:43am...
All the hype shall not distract us of sobering fairness... Were it not for the anti-Bush propaganda, Obama wouldn't have won...
But let's not forget that it was George W. Bush who appointed a wonderful and well prepared lady like Condoleezza Rice as Secretary of State... At the latest then it was crystal clear that the USA has overcome racial barriers...
In the last election I wished all Americans would show to the World that they have become in the meantime also genuinely post-racial and would elect the candidate with the best credentials for the job...
I was a little bit disappointed...
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— Pablo Omonte, Lima, Peru
11/07/2008
20th comment received but not published by The New York Times on Nov 7, 2008...
The article was...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/07/opinion/07brooks.html
My respective comment -as follows- has been received on same November 7th, 2008 10:37am...
Well expressed David...
There are also two urgent issues the new administration needs to keep improving on in order to secure the health of the US and World economy: 1) Free trade, and 2) Fair trade...
Free trade to mantain a genuine growth path...
Fair trade to diminish the paramount deficit...
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— Pablo Omonte, Lima, Peru
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/07/opinion/07brooks.html
My respective comment -as follows- has been received on same November 7th, 2008 10:37am...
Well expressed David...
There are also two urgent issues the new administration needs to keep improving on in order to secure the health of the US and World economy: 1) Free trade, and 2) Fair trade...
Free trade to mantain a genuine growth path...
Fair trade to diminish the paramount deficit...
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— Pablo Omonte, Lima, Peru
11/06/2008
11/05/2008
19th comment received but not published by The New York Times on Nov 5, 2008...
The article was...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/05/opinion/05friedman.html
My respective comment -as follows- has been received on same November 5th, 2008 2:20pm...
Those quite-as-many who didn't ascertain him as the better choice hope heartedly that Obama doesn't become Carter on steroids...
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— Pablo Omonte, Lima, Peru
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/05/opinion/05friedman.html
My respective comment -as follows- has been received on same November 5th, 2008 2:20pm...
Those quite-as-many who didn't ascertain him as the better choice hope heartedly that Obama doesn't become Carter on steroids...
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— Pablo Omonte, Lima, Peru
11/04/2008
# 68, on Obama as US President Elect...
68. I didn't expect Obama securing a quick victory in Ohio and Pennsylvania... Now -after seeing also the California projections- he is turning to become the US President-elect along this very night... As told to a few friends I hope he's persuadable to follow better ideas when appropriate in order for Barry not to turn into another Jimmy... God bless America!
Comment sent to the London Times on Nov 4, 2008...
After reading the article
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article5062889.ece
I did send following comment to the London Times on November 4th, 2008...
I see John S. McCain still having a fair chance to win... If Barack H. Obama Jr. becomes the victor, the USA will have a hard time but shall prevail as it did with James E. Carter Jr. ...
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Pablo Omonte, Lima, Peru
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article5062889.ece
I did send following comment to the London Times on November 4th, 2008...
I see John S. McCain still having a fair chance to win... If Barack H. Obama Jr. becomes the victor, the USA will have a hard time but shall prevail as it did with James E. Carter Jr. ...
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Pablo Omonte, Lima, Peru
18th comment received but not published by The New York Times on Nov 4, 2008...
The article was...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/04/opinion/04brooks.html
My respective comment -as follows- has been received on same November 4th, 2008 8:57am...
Speaking of smart young liberals, today morning Barack took a long time to cast his vote... Probably he was getting last minute second toughts about his scarcity on experience... 8)
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— Pablo Omonte, Lima, Peru
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/04/opinion/04brooks.html
My respective comment -as follows- has been received on same November 4th, 2008 8:57am...
Speaking of smart young liberals, today morning Barack took a long time to cast his vote... Probably he was getting last minute second toughts about his scarcity on experience... 8)
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— Pablo Omonte, Lima, Peru
11/03/2008
Article: I Won't Dare to Vote for Barack H. Obama, Jr.
November 3, 2008
Op-Ed Contribution
I Won't Dare to Vote for Barack H. Obama, Jr.
By PABLO OMONTE
LIMA
It has nothing to do with race.
As stated more than once, if Condoleezza Rice -a descendant of slaves- were running for the Republican party, I would rally for her with heart and mind.
My opposition to the present Democratic candidate has to do exclusively with his inexperience, weak judgment, demagoguery, and an economic approach that is prone to complete the destruction of the premises that have made the USA the leading country of the Free World.
During the last 6 weeks I arranged a personal effort to cast every argument via my site www.omonte.org
Now, on the eve of Election Day 2008 I want to focus on just a couple of final topics, in part built upon information provided by two US Friends: Danielle and Robert.
Were it not for the anti-Iraq-war propaganda, Obama's chance would be minimal. But I'd never forget that defeating Saddam Hussein was the only strategic path to take out the battleground on terror from inside the USA to Mesopotamia. At the same time this also represented the boldest effort to bring Freedom and Democracy to the Arab world. The Founding Fathers -Freemasons the most of them- are surely more proud of America since!
I also don't forget that WMDs were used by Hussein against the Kurds and the suspicion that in the last years those forbidden weapons were all built on super-trailers which were driven out via the Iran/ Syria border before March 2003 has not been discarded yet.
As close friends of mine know, during my stay in Europe almost 20 years ago I saw in the eyes of US enemies who were helping Hussein's Iraq. Some of those experts were coaching soon and with same eagerness the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan.
One can not deny the subtle understanding between the two major US haters among Sunni Arabs: Saddam Hussein and Usama bin Laden.
When I was 20 years old in 1984 I was starting in Germany to confront powerful anti-Americans and to defend the ideals of the United States, an approach which put my life in serious danger along the next years. When Barack was 20 years old in 1981 he spent 3 weeks in Pakistan.
Pakistan was in turmoil in 1981 and ruled by martial law. Millions of Afghan refugees were living in Pakistan, while the Afghan Mujahideen operated from bases inside Pakistan in their war with the Soviets. One of the leaders that based his operation in Quetta, Pakistan was bin Laden (a.k.a. "the sheikh"). Pakistan was on the banned travel list for US Citizens at the time and all non-Muslim visitors were not welcome unless sponsored by their embassy for official business. There would have been only 3 reasons for a young Westerner of Muslim faith to travel to Pakistan in 1981: To participate in Jihad, which is the duty of every "true believer"; for religious education in a Wahabbi sect -Saudi funded- Madrassa; or in order to purchase drugs from the drug marketplace. In that year Pakistan was by no means a tourist stop nor the place to hang out with someone's family.
When I was 30 years old in 1994 I was trying to re-start a living in my home country Peru after having survived a long-time harassment in Germany because of my outspoken pro-Americanism. When Barack was 30 years old in 1991 he was starting to work on his never ending exertion for a political career, at first helping to register around 150,000 misinformed voters in Chicago.
Obama has spent the main part of his political career running for the next office since he originally entered office. Some people will say he was elected in 1996 to the Illinois Senate. Yes, he was. It was a half term position in which he had all the other opponents removed from the ballot on technicalities and he had to run for re-election again in 1998 which means that he spent most of his second year campaigning during his half term Senate position.
In 1998, he won a four years seat, but he decided to run for the US Congress in 2000, so he was campaigning again (while getting paid to do another job which he was not doing). He lost that election. Then he had to run again for his half term Illinois Senate seat in 2002 (back on the campaign trail in 2001 for the third time since his 1996 win). In mid year of 2002 after he had won his Senate seat again he decided to run for US Senate, so he hired David Axelrod and he was back on the campaign trail, formally announced in 2003.
Through 2003 and 2004 he ran for the US Senate, winning unopposed as somehow sealed personal divorce records mysteriously leaked to the press in June of 2004 about his Republican opponent causing him to drop out. He won his 2004 Senate seat, resigned then from his 2002 win in the Illinois Senate during which he campaigned the most of the time, and in 2005 started the PR tour for his second book with title inspired by Jeremiah Wright. Then in mid 2006 he decided to run for President. In March 2007 he formally announced it and keeps being on the campaign trail.
1996 through 2008 look like 12 years of Public Service, but of those twelve Obama has been campaigning a minimum of 10 years!
For well informed Latin Americans it is not difficult then to compare Senator Obama with the several opportunistic lawyers we often observe on our political arenas.
Besides the above compilation, it is a common place that Democrats originated in the 90s the nucleus of the recent financial debacle with their socialism-inspired "social engineering" and along the last two years blocked every highly needed reform.
If disregarding mine and every other well minded effort, Barack H. Obama Jr. were to win tomorrow, the USA will prevail as it prevailed over the presidency of e.g. James E. Carter Jr.
Nevertheless, I cordially advise not to run into the same brick wall a thousand times!
Op-Ed Contribution
I Won't Dare to Vote for Barack H. Obama, Jr.
By PABLO OMONTE
LIMA
It has nothing to do with race.
As stated more than once, if Condoleezza Rice -a descendant of slaves- were running for the Republican party, I would rally for her with heart and mind.
My opposition to the present Democratic candidate has to do exclusively with his inexperience, weak judgment, demagoguery, and an economic approach that is prone to complete the destruction of the premises that have made the USA the leading country of the Free World.
During the last 6 weeks I arranged a personal effort to cast every argument via my site www.omonte.org
Now, on the eve of Election Day 2008 I want to focus on just a couple of final topics, in part built upon information provided by two US Friends: Danielle and Robert.
Were it not for the anti-Iraq-war propaganda, Obama's chance would be minimal. But I'd never forget that defeating Saddam Hussein was the only strategic path to take out the battleground on terror from inside the USA to Mesopotamia. At the same time this also represented the boldest effort to bring Freedom and Democracy to the Arab world. The Founding Fathers -Freemasons the most of them- are surely more proud of America since!
I also don't forget that WMDs were used by Hussein against the Kurds and the suspicion that in the last years those forbidden weapons were all built on super-trailers which were driven out via the Iran/ Syria border before March 2003 has not been discarded yet.
As close friends of mine know, during my stay in Europe almost 20 years ago I saw in the eyes of US enemies who were helping Hussein's Iraq. Some of those experts were coaching soon and with same eagerness the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan.
One can not deny the subtle understanding between the two major US haters among Sunni Arabs: Saddam Hussein and Usama bin Laden.
When I was 20 years old in 1984 I was starting in Germany to confront powerful anti-Americans and to defend the ideals of the United States, an approach which put my life in serious danger along the next years. When Barack was 20 years old in 1981 he spent 3 weeks in Pakistan.
Pakistan was in turmoil in 1981 and ruled by martial law. Millions of Afghan refugees were living in Pakistan, while the Afghan Mujahideen operated from bases inside Pakistan in their war with the Soviets. One of the leaders that based his operation in Quetta, Pakistan was bin Laden (a.k.a. "the sheikh"). Pakistan was on the banned travel list for US Citizens at the time and all non-Muslim visitors were not welcome unless sponsored by their embassy for official business. There would have been only 3 reasons for a young Westerner of Muslim faith to travel to Pakistan in 1981: To participate in Jihad, which is the duty of every "true believer"; for religious education in a Wahabbi sect -Saudi funded- Madrassa; or in order to purchase drugs from the drug marketplace. In that year Pakistan was by no means a tourist stop nor the place to hang out with someone's family.
When I was 30 years old in 1994 I was trying to re-start a living in my home country Peru after having survived a long-time harassment in Germany because of my outspoken pro-Americanism. When Barack was 30 years old in 1991 he was starting to work on his never ending exertion for a political career, at first helping to register around 150,000 misinformed voters in Chicago.
Obama has spent the main part of his political career running for the next office since he originally entered office. Some people will say he was elected in 1996 to the Illinois Senate. Yes, he was. It was a half term position in which he had all the other opponents removed from the ballot on technicalities and he had to run for re-election again in 1998 which means that he spent most of his second year campaigning during his half term Senate position.
In 1998, he won a four years seat, but he decided to run for the US Congress in 2000, so he was campaigning again (while getting paid to do another job which he was not doing). He lost that election. Then he had to run again for his half term Illinois Senate seat in 2002 (back on the campaign trail in 2001 for the third time since his 1996 win). In mid year of 2002 after he had won his Senate seat again he decided to run for US Senate, so he hired David Axelrod and he was back on the campaign trail, formally announced in 2003.
Through 2003 and 2004 he ran for the US Senate, winning unopposed as somehow sealed personal divorce records mysteriously leaked to the press in June of 2004 about his Republican opponent causing him to drop out. He won his 2004 Senate seat, resigned then from his 2002 win in the Illinois Senate during which he campaigned the most of the time, and in 2005 started the PR tour for his second book with title inspired by Jeremiah Wright. Then in mid 2006 he decided to run for President. In March 2007 he formally announced it and keeps being on the campaign trail.
1996 through 2008 look like 12 years of Public Service, but of those twelve Obama has been campaigning a minimum of 10 years!
For well informed Latin Americans it is not difficult then to compare Senator Obama with the several opportunistic lawyers we often observe on our political arenas.
Besides the above compilation, it is a common place that Democrats originated in the 90s the nucleus of the recent financial debacle with their socialism-inspired "social engineering" and along the last two years blocked every highly needed reform.
If disregarding mine and every other well minded effort, Barack H. Obama Jr. were to win tomorrow, the USA will prevail as it prevailed over the presidency of e.g. James E. Carter Jr.
Nevertheless, I cordially advise not to run into the same brick wall a thousand times!
17th comment received but not published by The New York Times on Nov 3, 2008...
The article was...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/03/opinion/03krugman.html
My respective comment -as follows- has been received on same November 3rd, 2008 8:45am...
Slowly Paul... A left leaned Nobel prize is no insurance against failure... The most resonanting truth after a few November surprises may be the Democratic party having become the party of naïveté...
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— Pablo Omonte, Lima, Peru
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/03/opinion/03krugman.html
My respective comment -as follows- has been received on same November 3rd, 2008 8:45am...
Slowly Paul... A left leaned Nobel prize is no insurance against failure... The most resonanting truth after a few November surprises may be the Democratic party having become the party of naïveté...
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16th comment received but not published by The New York Times on Nov 3, 2008...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/03/opinion/03kristol.html
My respective comment -as follows- has been received on same November 3rd, 2008 7:10am...
Bill Kristol's proved stoicism was a relieving oasis in a desert plagued with pro-Obama bias... For instance, the suffocating partiality will not impede that Barack looses support in a bunch of key states after the most recent uncovering of his predisposition against the coal industry...
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— Pablo Omonte, Lima, Peru
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/03/opinion/03kristol.html
My respective comment -as follows- has been received on same November 3rd, 2008 7:10am...
Bill Kristol's proved stoicism was a relieving oasis in a desert plagued with pro-Obama bias... For instance, the suffocating partiality will not impede that Barack looses support in a bunch of key states after the most recent uncovering of his predisposition against the coal industry...
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11/02/2008
# 51, broadcasted via email with edition V on Aug 10, 2008...
51. Against the opposition of the majority of his generals, of several leaders of his party (except a few like John McCain), and almost the whole democratic bench (except a very few like Joseph Lieberman) on Capitol Hill, George W. Bush approved the surge of troops in Irak... Now that it was demonstrated to have been a wise decision, it continues to be difficult for Obama -the self proclaimed leader of unity and change- to recognize this... I'm sure that if the Americans would decide to weigh anchors much sooner than pertinent, many good willing Irakis wouldn't delay in dedicate them a song like "If You Leave Me Now" by the group Chicago...
# 49, broadcasted via email with edition V on Aug 10, 2008...
49. Barack H. Obama Jr. tries to imitate John F. Kennedy on various aspects, including his impetus to defy someone way more experienced like Richard Nixon... Nonetheless, it's appropriate to remember that with Kennedy the United States were pretty close of losing the Cold War against the communist axis headed by the Soviet Union... That risk started to unchain on the instant when the Russian leader Nikita Khrushchev considered Kennedy a wimp... Consequently to me more accurate than his predecessor, Obama should have emulated the statement "Ich bin ein Berliner" with a more sincere "I'm a beginner" during his gaseous speech in front of the ecstatic 200,000 attendants on the German capital city's Tiergarten...
# 48, broadcasted via email with edition V on Aug 10, 2008...
48. I would have preferred that Mario Vargas-Llosa becomes a US Citizen; but surely his lesser command of English made him feel always much closer to Spain... And why not?... Possessing the Spanish citizenship he could obviously try a political inroad, most of all if this is done in name of a well understood liberalism like his... However, and without losing the sense of humor, lately Mario has been showing signals of a slight blandishment... Particularly on two issues... His soft comming together with Alan Garcia and his growing sympathy for Barack Obama...
15th comment received but not published by The New York Times on Nov 2, 2008...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/02/opinion/02dowd.html
My respective comment -as follows- has been received on same November 2nd, 2008 8:35am...
The real question is if the credibility of The New York Times will survive at an acceptable level after such unprecedented and dubious bias in favor of an unprepared and oportunistic presidential candidate...
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— Pablo Omonte, Lima, Peru
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/02/opinion/02dowd.html
My respective comment -as follows- has been received on same November 2nd, 2008 8:35am...
The real question is if the credibility of The New York Times will survive at an acceptable level after such unprecedented and dubious bias in favor of an unprepared and oportunistic presidential candidate...
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— Pablo Omonte, Lima, Peru
# 42, broadcasted via email with edition V on Aug 10, 2008...
42. By practical sense and thanks to its enorm ductilibility the English language has turned into lingua franca... It is de facto that Esperanto which many erudites wanted to disseminate in the past... Furthermore, as I've written on one of the first P1's paragraphs issued in 2006, the most prestigious futurologists foresee that in a not so distant future the earthlings will speak one single language which will have from everyone spoken at present; but mainly of English, then -in order geometrically decreasing- of Spanish, of Chinese, and so on...
11/01/2008
# 41, broadcasted via email with edition V on Aug 10, 2008...
41. Americans are essentially patriots... Because of it, Obama sinned as uncouth by criticizing that the average US citizen doesn't speak a second language and that just barely could say merci beaucoup when visiting Paris... To the most part of the American voters it may be clear that if it not were for the United States, France would be still subjugated by the yoke of the Nazi satraps and in Paris one should thank others not in French but with a Germanic vielen dank...
# 40, broadcasted via email with edition V on Aug 10, 2008...
40. As I commented to Bill O'reilly of FoxNews, Barack Obama Junior reminds us in Latin America of presidential candidates like Alan Garcia... Brilliant speaker (with support of translucent teleprompter in case of the gringo, to be truthful) and extraordinary seducer of multitudes... However, summing up, someone with a very few leading achievements to show...
# 39, broadcasted via email with edition V on Aug 10, 2008...
39. For the US media which is most favorable to him, Obama came out with flying colors with his clarifying speech of March 18th; though I believe that to have put on same level the domestic diatribes of his paternal grandmother and the anti-American verbal excesses of his mentor pastor Jeremiah Wright has started to complicate him in the sub-conscience of the American majority, mainly in regard to the elections of November 4th... It doesn't mean I would have preferred Hillary Clinton... Against it plays my conviction that the Democrats are more labile to resolve the crucial challenges the USA has to confront...
# 38, broadcasted via email with edition V on Aug 10, 2008...
38. As I expressed on O1's paragraph # 29, the possibility that Obama becomes the next president would reafirm the lasting US leadership... Dumb people on rancid and sometimes not so rancid latitudes, who still think that skin color keeps proportionality with some level of superiority, would receive a new democratic lesson of the most powerful country in the world... However, my divergence with the candidate for the Democratic party has to deal with his political stands of demagogic tone...
14th comment received but not published by The New York Times on Nov 1, 2008...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/01/opinion/01collins.html
My respective comment -as follows- has been received on same November 1st, 2008 10:26am...
Lawrence Eagelburger pointed also to Barack's stupid statements on foreign policy and stressed that he has less experience than Sarah... Apropos the 96 hours rally to rally racing, there are 3 reporters who will endure additional torture following his plane...
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— Pablo Omonte, Lima, Peru
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/01/opinion/01collins.html
My respective comment -as follows- has been received on same November 1st, 2008 10:26am...
Lawrence Eagelburger pointed also to Barack's stupid statements on foreign policy and stressed that he has less experience than Sarah... Apropos the 96 hours rally to rally racing, there are 3 reporters who will endure additional torture following his plane...
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— Pablo Omonte, Lima, Peru
13th comment received but not published by The New York Times on Nov 1, 2008...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/01/opinion/01herbert.html
My respective comment -as follows- has been received on same November 1st, 2008 9:41am...
US voters are wiser than several pundits expect... If the majority is reluctant to cast a vote in favor of Barack it is not because of the color of his epidermis but because they have concluded that he is much more inexperienced than Sarah, has not demonstrated to have a good judgment, and his economic approach will worsen the current crisis...
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— Pablo Omonte, Lima, Peru
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/01/opinion/01herbert.html
My respective comment -as follows- has been received on same November 1st, 2008 9:41am...
US voters are wiser than several pundits expect... If the majority is reluctant to cast a vote in favor of Barack it is not because of the color of his epidermis but because they have concluded that he is much more inexperienced than Sarah, has not demonstrated to have a good judgment, and his economic approach will worsen the current crisis...
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— Pablo Omonte, Lima, Peru
12th comment received but not published by The New York Times on Nov 1, 2008...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/01/opinion/01blow.html
My respective comment -as follows- has been received on same November 1st, 2008 9:30am...
As John McCain has already closen the gap, one could easily state: For Barack Obama Jr. to have won, everything needed to go his way in October... It didn’t...
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— Pablo Omonte, Lima, Peru
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/01/opinion/01blow.html
My respective comment -as follows- has been received on same November 1st, 2008 9:30am...
As John McCain has already closen the gap, one could easily state: For Barack Obama Jr. to have won, everything needed to go his way in October... It didn’t...
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— Pablo Omonte, Lima, Peru
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