This inaugration brings a sense of Justice. Truth does prevail. Sincerity does get recognized, Good intentions accompanied by actions can bring about a positive change. Hope remains alive that hardwork will be rewarded and dishonesty will be punished.
I am filled with hope for my children that USA is still a country that wants to be at the top.
How unfortunate, after a corrupt 8 years of Bush cheney we are seeing Chicago corruption being thrown at Obama.
How about , while we are at it , trying to track money trail in politics , go an visit haliburton , private securities and such directly associated with the current govt.Let us expose all the money trails , not just this Bizzare BLOGO scandal.
Is Chicago the only place where politicians paly money?
Is the media in amnesia?
Nicholas kristof jpenned down some misstatements about india and its minorities. Ijust wish he changed his assosciatios and saw how pampered the muslims are in In dia, they are mired in their fundamentalist, retrograde laws, doesn't mean India has not given them a chance. I say with my personal experience , they are helped over the majority.
Well Mr. K , who is torturing the citizens of Kashmir. I just had contact with my high school friend (muslim)in srinagar, Her daughters cannot leave the premises of the house except for going to school under supervision otherwise drug addicted , fundamentalist muslim youth and “they” will abduct the daughters or _____. The torture is by the ISI who is showing them a green turf of Islamic nation. while kashmiri muslim’s voted to put bread on their table. Speaking of torture , Mr. Kristof, how would you feel if you were threatened to leave your home in the middle of night by your neighbor, because he has to execute the ISI command of ethnically cleansing the Srinagar valley. You are separated from your family and friends for ever.The last 18 years Hindus have been exiled from the citythey built thousands of years ago , the valley echoing the chants from the various temples that lay barren now. Israelis are in their land why should a kashmiri not be in his ancestor’s land. The muslims were invaders they can leave . There are two sides to a story but in the case of kashmiri Muslims there are three , they want to run with the deer and hunt with hound and play innocent. Muslim’s in India are busy proliferating instead of progressing, their Mullahs tell them that is what they need to do reclaim India as a muslim nation. Do not be fooled by the western educated , articulate pakistani’s who are surreptitiously fanning the fundamentalism in pakistan and exporting it to muslims in India and britain. The AMA is lobbying and very vocal , seems like you have been giving them your ear too, Forget Hindu fundamerntalism , it will see its fate , let us fight those who are already ruthlessly damaging the world in pursuit of an Islamic world
I hope Obama starts his dipolomatic negotiation with well Zwahiri or ISI , Who is it that is running Pakistan?
let us not worry about nukes in India ,yes do worry about pak's nukes in al quaida's hands ,the marauders in mumabai had been provided return trip to Karachi.it was not a suicide mission. (They are dumb you see).US has to shake off the old mantle and wake up to the terrism bed that is apkistan and take it from there, Munabai today , could be maryland tomoorow,They are dangerous , unmemployed , they are Jihadis on the losse ,
The Truth has to be acknowledged by america, Alquaida by any name will do as heinous!!
Qaida in partnership with Lashkar in India29 Nov 2008, 0553 hrs IST, TNN
NEW DELHI: Terror does leave a calling card. As the enormity of the attack on Mumbai sank in, it seemed like the arrival of al-Qaida in India, a version of 9/11 designed to attract a global audience given the scale of violence and the planned targeting of westerners.
With the capture of a terrorist, the actual authors were revealed. It wasn't the al-Qaida. But the jihadi credentials were not much less impressive with Lashkar-e-Taiba named as the suspect. Given the operation's obvious planning, few doubted it was the deadly firm of LeT-ISI in action yet again.
Yet the difference between LeT and al-Qaida is not so significant as might have once been the case. In recent years, Lashkar has emerged as not only the single largest pan-Indian terror threat, but also a partner with al-Qaida in jihadi battlegrounds like Iraq, Chechnya and Afghanistan. It has shared training camps and cadre and used al-Qaida-Taliban facilities for a "jihad" against India.
It has been proscribed by US and UK who have recognised LeT to be a global terrorist organisation. In UK, it has been allied to the Kashmiri underground, for long recognised as one of the easiest way to get into the jihadi circuit which leads to Pakistan. It poses as a charity and openly seeks donations in Pakistani cities for the "Kashmir cause" and its leader, Prof Hafiz Saeed, is allowed free movement apart from occasional cosmetic spells of house arrest.
Before the Markaz-da'wa wal-irshad, the Lashkar's religio-political wing, was banned, its website regularly carried the view of its founder. Saeed's view of LeT's mission was quite unambiguous. He argued that Kashmir was the "gateway" to India, much of which comprised "lost Muslim lands". He saw jihad in Kashmir as a religious duty and fully identified himself with the 9/11 mayhem that Osama bin Laden wreaked.
Aligned with the Ahl-e-Hadees sect, Lashkar was founded in 1987 by Saeed, who incidentally was also trained as an engineer like Osama and many other prominent jihadis, and who drew his inspiration from the Egypt-based Muslim Brotherhood — an organisation that saw Palestine as an Islamic cause way back in the 1930's. In collaboration with ISI, Lashkar built up an impressive Kashmir portfolio with recruits chiefly drawn from Pakistani Punjabis, Pashtoons, Bangladeshis, Arabs and south-east Asians.
But its vision has never been Kashmir-centric as it bids to re-establish Muslim rule from Morocco to Indonesia and also eyes north Australia as part of its likely domain.
Copyright © 2008 Bennett Coleman & Co. Ltd. All rights reserved. For reprint rights: Times Syndication Service
It is heartening to see a response from PE transition team. India is a democracy with hard working people contributing brain power to the world. A self reliant country looking to the future. If Obama understand the right from wrong he will know how to punsih the annoying neighbor of Pakistan which is deluged woth fundamentalism amnd taerriorism .whose ISI is the barian behind separatism in India and now the latest massacre in Mumabai.
Keeping politics aside, India who never attacked pakistan is not a threat to pakistn as CNN news reporters have been stating. But pakistan and all muslims ( even those claiming to be moderates) finance the propoganda of Jihadism.
India has to spend a substantial portion of its GNP in Defense , while Pakistan gets free gifts from America and ,under the radar, from the oil rich middle east. Pakistan was created to keep fundamentalism alive and it is now suffering an inferiority complex seeing India become frontrunner in moden world.
India has its flaws , but treating its minorities poorly is not one of them, Infact the contrary treating the minorities too well without holding them responsible. minoritie overlook the nations population contro; initiative , they do not iontegrate in the mainstream society and secretly wish they were in a muslim nation. While their ancestors styed in India knwoing India would prosper .
Well it is tormenti ng to see a secular nation suffering from fundamentalist terrorism.
America under leadershipf Obama can put an end to pakistan's interference inthe Kashmir issue and punishit for being freindly with terrorist.
You cannot believ what Pak officials says. it is what they do that america has to asses.
The NY state government is cutting / slashing funding to education in the State Universty of NewYork system
SUNY is getting Budget cuts . tution raise, firing freeze!
Is this the nation on its way to growth. When economy suffers and private colleges become out of realm of finacial reality . SUNY is slamming doorsa on its youth.
who will help new york?
he may be retaining or promoting Clintonians
but I hope they work as Obamaiites, Fair, intelligent and honest
I hope Obama realizes people trusted him to alter the ways of american polity,
he promised that
I still keep faith
Joe scarborough has been rattling on about the immature way leaks are coming about from transition team: I really don't care waht that big mouth has to say in the mornings but
I did admire Obama campaign's focus and deliberate discipline.
The country has been united in it response , we have all felt hillary's insults and cheap stake politics . we hav e all fought for change from that dirty 60's fighting, dirty, slick politics.
I hope Obama's advisers's realize that people of America understand honesty , we chose Obama for that
now he has to show judgement to steer clear of dirty politicians , Hillary included.
He can find suitable candidated beyond the Clintons!!! and their lobbying cohorts,
It is time to rally for bill richardson , he respects Obama , will push Obama's vision in the world
unlike Hillary who is caught up in being great while she is such a follower of the beaten up path.
Richardson spearheaded the superdelegate endorsements (remember that)
he is a statesman with Vision , fits with OBama
I hope Obama realizes that he was chosen not CLINTON
so why use clinton bunch.
Please look for the post baby boom generation that thinks differently
I cannot believe he is rehetoing the clinton soup
fresh cabinet please
I spent so much energy keeping hillary out of the white house
and there u go she will be in the cabinet.
I hope obamaiites remind OBAMA why we worked for him , we need a drastic change in the country
not rehetoric and 2oth century politics
if he thinks he needs the approval of the establishment , it will be a one term non delivering presidency.
Michhelle is seeking advice about kids, talking fashion, kids designer clothes
i think the obamas need a time out and recaliberate themselves,
they are becoming too concious of their celebrity status , or is it going bto their head?
Axelrod may have been a good campaign manager , can he be the chief adviser?
I am hoping Obama will put on his IVY league hat and make bold intelligent decisions.
if this is going to be a rehire of clinton era democrats, why didn't obama let hillary win the primary?
I am a little dissapointed at the summers etal all over the transition team
and now hillary! clinton is the old world . old generation american , not aware of modern political climate of world.
their answer to everything is pro pakistan anti russia
i hope hillar is kept out of the cabinet , as well powell
CHANGE CHANGE VOTE WAS FOR CHANGE
Two more days , the results will be in
If Americans stand for honest , sincere leadership we will be fine on tuesday
but if bigotry holds them back , shameful for the US
I feel chills down my spine when I hear news channels say, as matter of fact "we don't know if polls are true".
Isn't that condemnable for the nation
doubting because of race
Mcain has amply demonstrated despite decades of experience and maverickeness he has failed to show sound judgement . his Vp pick , his wavering stance on economic regulation , his lack of awareness of middle east and far east dynamics, beating the POW bandwagon as cure all for all problems.
Please let us gtow up for the sake of our children and move USA ahead.
Every other week Palin finds a dangerous person working in a prominent university in USA. Hey where is the FBI and CIA and Homeland security? How are they letting these rogues loose? Well let us see how many more dangerous people are in our country . Only a maverick can tackle all these serious issues.
Wonder if she knows one Todd Palin trying to seccede from USA.
note voting will mean voting for Palin for president.
so please please help out in getting the vote out.
This is a good deed that will reward you for the next four years and beyond.
With each day passing , and the electorate getting educated by the fact checkers,
The votes have to be cast. it is not over till the trip to the booth has been made.
What a wonderful times for young kids to hear the discussion of the importance of voting
How can it be democracy for the people if its is not by the people.
Experience the power to VOTE
how strange is it that this joe the plumber lied to obama in his question , instead of directly asking him a question about small buisness he made up a question ,
stranger still mccain still talks about him.
is this fiction land.
palin spends a fortune in hair style and then she announces she is frugal
what a bunch of untrustworthy republicans and their suppoters
thank God this year we have an honest alternative
Obama 08-12-16-------
