Friday, June 13, 2008

Spare some change

Obama seems to have become of the e-successes a la Amazon. He asked millions of young and old, white and black, god-fearing and blasphemic, straight and not-so-straight voters to spare some change in the name of change and he got nearly $260m so far, dwarfing the paltry $90m in public campaign financing. Most of this coming by way of the internet.

The election now boils down to answering the question: do you believe in the change Obama can bring in or do you believe the leader in McCain.

So far, Obama has clearly embodied the change that he constantly preaches about (now that's something he did learn from his pastor). He changed his mind from endorsing Jeremiah Wright to disowning him. He changed his mind from using public campaign financing to using his own $260m war chest. Will he change colors (I am obviously not hinting that he will do an MJ) like Bush the lesser did?

McCain is certainly a good leader for a midget army, an aging army, I must add. But can he prove that he is really different from his predecessor without starting to sound like a Democrat?

Change we have to wait for...

Monday, June 09, 2008

Spell disaster

The Indians were back to the fore again in this year's Scripps Spelling Bee. I wonderred whether we Indian folk have a natural advantege when it comes to speling? Mine is probably a biased view but having had to spell my name correctly through school, I am not surpriced I could spell very well. If I were to be American-born and had a set of parents who found a new pass time in watching me spell floccinauxinihilipilification, I would have been crowned the Big Bee at age 7. On the contrery, I tend to think I might just have asked my parents to mind their own beeswax?

As a kid, whether you win or not, you probably spend days buried in the debri of words while other normal kids are buried in sand or, in the worst case, just homework. Having written off a year out of your childhood, and possibly faced a setback, you find yourself distroyed and out of steam or even self-esteem. What does this mean to your future? I suspect it spells disaster!

P.S: The blogger spell check seems to have gotten irational lately. So, if you find many spelling errors highlited when you read this, just ignore them.