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President Obama in a dog fight to get reelected

And if getting turned away from the polls weren’t enough of an indignity, some of those 180 people ended up getting their cars towed from the parking lot across the street, according to a Miami Herald reporter.

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The world will again tune in to the outcome of the US Presidential Election 2012 on Tuesday. Obama intoxicated not only Americans with his message of hope in 2008 but the world.  A few short years later that message has dissipated and the latest polls show that Obama is in a statistical dead heat with Republican candidate Mitt Romney.

President Barack Obama promised the world so much. His historic elevation to the Oval Office captivated the world for those who dared to dream. His message to introduce change to Washington has failed and some suggest he did not even try. He appointed the same Wall Street faces he criticised when he was on the campaign trail in 2007. A look at his foreign policy – led by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton – paints a world still gripped in the turmoil Bush left it.

In the Caribbean many support Obama for re-election because historically Blacks have had a love affair with Democratic Party. This time around the support is stronger because the pigmentation of Obama makes him someone a predominantly Black region can identify. The questions some us who dare to ask is – Why should Americans vote for Obama? What has he done in four years to suggest as leader of the great USA he can change Washington and the world?

The performance of the US economy impacts how the global economy of which we are a part performs. In the case of Barbados there is growing pressure to defend the parity of the Barbados dollar which is hitched to the USD 2:1. BU’s interest in the US Presidential Election this week is about who at this juncture brings a policy approach that is likely to improve the global economy. So far Obama’s approach has been more of the same. Romney as a businessman appears to have achieved some success. Maybe he deserves a chance.

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  1. David Avatar
    David

    After the post-election talk is done here is the reality by the unique design of the US electoral syste$ Obama won big in the electoral college but the popular vote ie ordinary Americans, was split down the centre. It is the popular vote that will guide the national conversations.

  2. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ TO THE POINT | November 12, 2012 at 2:28 PM |
    “you are forgetting one thing, we black people had the first university, so thinking is in our dna, it just that we have not used our knwledge for deceptive purposes like you foreparents.”

    What do you mean by that? Where was that first university? If you are referring to the University of Timbuktu you will also have to appreciate that the teachings of Islam and other Quranic principles underscored the curriculum. That university flourished during the heydays or glory days of Islam when mathematics, astronomy, engineering, architecture, medicine and other sciences and the arts were promoted and taught instead of Taliban type Sharia law.
    We are certain that as a fundamentalist Christian of Adam & Eve & Zoe persuasion you would not want to attend such a prestigious hallowed institution of learning in the heart of Dogon country whose people are some of the most intellectually advanced as a result of their Sirius and Orion contacts.

    It would serve your intellectual interests well not to make outlandish statements such the one you made above unless you know what you are about.

    If black people are so naturally smart (thinking in their DNA) what has gone?
    To localize the issue why are the Bajan blacks so dependent on local and foreign whites and even Chinese and East Indians (aka Trinidadians investors/businessowners) to prop up the economy and advise those smart ass black Bjans how to manage their own affairs?

    Please be careful how you respond. I am not Moneybrain!

  3. ac Avatar
    ac

    One thing you missing miller that under colonial system blacks had no control of selfgoverance everything was designed and control by a sytem of goverance that shut bajans out of many decisions whereby we became a nation of dependant dependening on the advice of others to lead in essence we became followers and to this present time welive in self doubt and literate pessimst the debate on privatisation is telling in that many who speaks of selfgoverance still afraid to meet the challenge of self goverance.

  4. Moneybrain Avatar
    Moneybrain

    @Sarge
    I am aware of the Johnson family of BET, Magic and many others in Bim.
    Sometimes when you dealing with fools like AC/ Pointless etc you eventually are prone to extreme statements just to illustrate that one can get their attention by being as assine as they are. They are very naive in their understanding of the complexities of politics and the world in general, real pity. Alas they will have to suffer to recognize the realities.

  5. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ ac | November 13, 2012 at 11:17 AM |

    Since you seek to put the blame for our current predicament squarely on the shoulders of our colonial past and endemic dependency syndrome how come Barbados was classified as the number one developing country in the World as far back as 1992 rated e at No. 20 on the UNDP Human Development Index and described by former UN Secretary General Kofi Anan “as punching above its weight”. Unless you want to give credence to harry calihan’s racial diatribe.

  6. ac Avatar
    ac

    but look miller not forgetting the influences that help us to get such a high rating mostly fueled by foreign exchange generated by tiurism and selling of land and foreign investment but now with the recession reality has shown that we have never been the architects of our own fate even with outstanding world class rating self reliance means avoiding the trappings of those who believe they know what,s best for us at any cost.

  7. ac Avatar
    ac

    So miller logically speaking how does one reconcile self determination and selling the countries/assests to outside influence

  8. nanci Avatar
    nanci

    glad to see the police is doing something about the lawlessness in Chapman lane area, its a shame that adults dont know how to behave themselves in a human like manner. Barbados is too small to be getting involve in gang activity and all that nonsense such as drive by shootings, it bring a shame on the country. Anyone with an illegal gun should be locked up for at least 7 years, mandatory.That would quell some of the lawless behavior.

  9. Moneybrain Avatar
    Moneybrain

    @ AC, Bushie and Pointless
    The top 2% that the Dems and BO are focusing on for paying MORE TAX are already PAYING 43.6% of ALL FED Income Tax(2008), on 24% of ALL US INCOME. You peeps would NOT be eager to pay one more dime, personally!

    You see how the POLS CONNING wunna!

    Dont tell Froon and Owen bout wunna stupidity cause dem will be cooking up their tricks all like now so! Wuhla!!!

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