A Brand New Era.... Our 44th President Barack Obama

This morning, we witnessed history, the man we elected, Barack Hussein Obama, sworn into office, our 44th President of the United States of America. Who would've thought this day would come so soon? An African American? Oh, don't take me wrong. He was elected because he is a well-qualified AMERICAN! His ethnicity is just icing on the cake! 

This is HUGE for me as a liberal Asian American aka minority! The process of his journey to presidency is what brought me to this country. This is the America I used to know before Bush's regime. Now THIS is the America I will come to love and cherish. This is the America that I will be proud to be part of once again. I cannot stress enough the significance of Barack Obama's presidency. He represents so much of what America is about. The first thing that comes to my mind is: embrace diversity and unite as one! 

My cousin from London called this morning and told me she is proud of him and proud to be an American overseas, and people from all around the world are beginning to look at US with respect and admiration again. On his first day in office, he's already begun to restore our international reputation! 

Today is an auspicious day, because this is the beginning of a new era, a new generation! I personally believe that he will be a great president, but he is yet to prove himself to the rest of the country and perhaps me too, just because the world is so messed up right now. I don't know how he's going to do this. There are difficult tasks ahead of Mr. President Obama. All I can think of is, how courageous he is! Having to deal with what's left for him from the previous administration, a collapsed economy, a declining employment rate, global warming and an energy crisis, war in the Middle East, plus the turmoil in Gaza.... yet, he seems so poised and confident. 

His willingness to bring a team of rivals to work in his cabinet shows leadership. His ability to utilize modern technology and power of speech to inspire and mobilize generations young and old, both here in the US and abroad, indicates that he understands the future of our country lies within a new generation. The generation that sets aside the old ideas that divide our country, the generation that embraces differences, the generation that inspires hope instead of fear and hate!

Barack Hussein Obama, our 44th President is not just a political figure, he is also a cultural icon!

 

"Class Issue" - Yes or No?

Anything that comes out of Sarah Palin's mouth is laughable!

This is a woman whom many people look up to! (Hey, don't look at me...) Many Republican men and women alike, supported and admired her "honesty" and "directness", yet this is a woman who cannot speak in complete sentences! Is it me? I thought my English is bad, but comparing to her speaking, I sound like an English professor! 

Here is a video clip, of an interview with her, which you probably have seen many times on news network, but it never ceased to amuse me. Especially the part when she talked about Caroline Kennedy, and how she thinks that there is a "class issue" between her and Caroline Kennedy which reflected how they might be or were treated differently by the media! 

Wow.. This woman has no shame! Hasn't she ever look at the past few months and start reflecting internally what she'd done instead of pointing her fingers at other places and people for all the mistakes she's made? And stop blaming the media for portraying her as herself? Unless she loathes herself as she is! 

Her representing the Republican parting is already a "class" privilege that she's enjoyed and continue to enjoy. So what is she talking about? This "class issue" she claimed to have created preferential or discriminatory treatment is just ludicrous and laughable! Or is it?

Well, you've all heard or read the news today that a federal magistrate judge refused a government request to revoke Bernard Madoff's $10 million bail! I was really disappointed at the ruling. Bernard Madoff has committed the biggest white collar crime in the existence of this plant, yet he gets to enjoy his freedom, the so-called "house arrest, in his $7 million Manhattan apartment until he can be tried on the charges of his $50 billion Ponzi scheme. All the while, our Jails are flooded with people with minor offense as small as possession of little marijuana, but they don't get no slap on the wrist, they get real jail time... so is that fair?

As much as I disagree with the beauty queen turn Alaska governor, is there some truth in her claim?