John Freedland from the Guardian began his report on the swing that Palin's got for the red camp with this lead:
The feeling is familiar. I had it four years ago and four years before that: a sinking feeling in the stomach. It's a kind of physical pessimism which says: "It's happening again. The Democrats are about to lose an election they should win - and it could not matter more."It's funny. Just like one of those "evergreen" titles you can just keep on your yet-to-be-published book called "The ongoing crisis in the Middle East".
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Just how petty can HC's female voting base get? Not only have you polarised your party, you've shown your young people just how easily hope can be crushed by nothing more than sheer spite. Perhaps you weren't being democrats in the first place - how else could you possibly justify your defection?
A generation of young Americans - who back Obama in big numbers - will turn cynical, concluding that politics doesn't work after all.Perhaps all is not as dire as Freedland suggests, yet it is truly disheartening for an admirer halfway around the world to see the world's leading (?) democracy raise a collective finger at a man who represents fairplay, integrity and hope.
Interestingly, there was another article in TODAY which announced the results of a worldwide poll which showed that people in most countries preferred Obama - no surprises there. What was particularly stark to me was the fact that among the countries polled, Singaporeans led the way in respondents who "didn't know/neutral/didn't care". Ha! Empirical proof that we just bochup!
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One of my latest crazes is the TV serial Boston Legal. It's awesome and I'm completely hooked on it. Think a darker, sexier version of Ally McBeal with even more compelling characters who are a study in extremes.
At the end of every episode, however, the two lead characters always end up on the balcony of their big-shot law firm, where they recount their day while drinking a glass of scotch and enjoying a cigar.
*cringe alert*
Still, I find myself drawn to that idea - that we all need that little bit of peace and tranquility at the end of the day to reflect and think; to make sense of it all. What's the point of working 40 floors up when you don't look at it at least a little at the end of it?
So I watched my first sunset alone in the conference room today. :)
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Singaporeans have always been bochup because they expect to be led or 'shown the way'. It is extremely frustrating but in a way, it was the government who taught us to become like this...what is happening now is that a majority of people simply wait for instructions on what to do next instead of thinking for themselves.
And I 'heart' Boston Legal too
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