'SCREW THE TURKEY, I PARDON
MYSELF'
[Guardian
Unlimited, U.K.]
Tal Cual, Venezuela
Venezuela Needs
Kind of Change U.S. People Have Chosen
"I celebrated seeing North Americans
finally repudiate their prejudices and choose the option of hope. … The fear
card, aggressiveness and emotional blackmail didn’t work in the red states and
it blew up in their faces. … Now I want to cry and jump for joy for my country
and see our balance of power altered."
By Janine Senior Vici
Translated By Liz Essary
November 17, 2008
Venezuela
- Tal Cual - Original Article (Spanish)
When I was in the United
States, I soaked up the debates, analyses, projections, and polls of every
extreme - and I jumped for joy when Obama was declared the new president. I
cried along with the millions of anonymous voters of all colors and ages, of
African descent, and all the other colors of the fifty states that make up the
fabric of this great democratic country. I celebrated along with them. And not
only because of the collapse of this wall of prejudice that stood invisible. I
cheered because of the tangible hope of so many after the democratic victory of
this slim and elegant mixed-race man, who emerged out of an unstable childhood
in Hawaii and Bali, was raised by his White grandmother to be disciplined,
educated, cultured and brilliant, and who knew how to focus on his goal with a
positive campaign of service and love for his country and, dare I say, for the
planet.
This is the man who - because
of his skin color and geographically multiracial upbringing - will be able to
put himself in the shoes of “the other,” and sit down without precondition to
talk to friends and adversaries alike. To witness this beautiful family
celebrating together, the warm hug from his partner, who is his best friend,
the love of his life and a brilliant Princeton Ph.D. created a reaction of
complete release and euphoria … .
[Editor’s Note: Actually,
Michelle Obama received an undergraduate degree from Princeton and a law degree
from Harvard 
].
I celebrated seeing North
Americans finally repudiate their prejudices and choose the option of hope,
coined in the logo of the rising sun of Obama. They overcame their own fears,
adamantly rejecting those that McCain tried to inject during his dishonorable
and dirty campaign - which is why they called it the “campaign of filth.” The
fear card, aggressiveness and emotional blackmail didn’t work in the red states
and it blew up in their faces, along with attempts to discredit people, mount
attacks and release videos composed of cloned lies.
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by WORLDMEETS.US
The name Barack Obama seems
written in Teflon. Not only was he not affected by the Republican campaign’s
mudslinging and scaring of voters. On the contrary, the crap his accusers were
throwing stuck to them in direct proportion to the harshness of their attacks
and, like bubbles in water, Obama kept rising in the polls.
With his absolute calm, sense
of security, confidence, ability to control himself, look his adversary in the
eye and treat him with respect, Obama never succumbed to the temptation to
deliver a “right hook” in answer to all of the vile, divisive and irresponsible
accusations. That includes invented associations with terrorists and charges
that he's Muslim, racist, communist and a fetus killer, which McCain and Palin
used during rallies to fire-up their conservative followers, eliciting cries of
“Kill him!” It horrified the rest of the country.
[The
Telegraph, UK.]
In Venezuela, we continue to
struggle against an absolute power that threatens to choke us with a
threatening and repressive fear, insults, insecurity, damaged and dirty roads,
and 36 percent inflation bloated by 10 years of decline and corruption - only
one color, one ideology, and one way of thinking. [The author refers to the
Bolivarian Revolution of President Hugo Chavez].
But even now, hope remains:
On November 23, I want to cry and jump for joy for my country and see our
balance of power altered. May hope, unity and hard work by all regain our
lovely and friendly Venezuela. I want to feel the same euphoria I felt on
November 4 for the country of my grandchildren, in my own country on November
23.
[Editor's
Note: At stake during the November 23 elections in Venezuela were a total of 22
governorships, 328 mayoral positions, and hundreds of local legislative council
seats. The elections pitted Chávez' new United
Venezuelan Socialist Party against remnants of the centrist and conservative
opposition of Venezuela's late-1990s two-party system. The results were a setback
for President Hugo Chavez - but his party still has a commanding majority in
the national legislature.]
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