Quotes of the Week - May 13, 2008:
"We have lit the torch on top of the world." -- Climber on
Chinese mountaineering team that took Olympic flame to top Mount Everest.
"I am not a monster. I could have killed them all, and no one would
have known." -- Josef Fritzl, 73, the Austrian man who fathered seven
children with daughter he imprisoned in a cellar for 24 years.
"Every US President has to have a war." -- Mikhail Gorbachev,
former Soviet President, claiming the US military buildup risks leading
to a new cold war with Russia.
"We will not just bring our supplies to an airport, dump it and take
off." -- Anthony Banbury, UN World Food Program Regional Director,
on why relief agencies were having trouble getting food aid to cyclone
survivors in Burma.
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April 30, 2008 Bitter, personal, exciting and too tough to call
- 2008 race for White House
Shes got the kitchen sink flying and the china flying,
the buffet is coming at me, constant distractions, these petty, trivial,
slash-and-burn, back-and-forth, tit-for-tat politics.
Thats the angry voice of Barack Obama complaining bitterly about
his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton in a US presidential race
thats turned personal very personal.
Its one of the most exciting and most unpredictable election
for years. Its remains extremely tight and hard to call, even
for the most experienced political commentators.
Clinton is behind Obama in delegate count 1592 to his 1723
and may have to rely on the superdelegates to get her partys
nomination. So she is fighting with everything shes got.
Its easy to get caught up in the distractions and silliness
and the tit-for-tat that consumes our politics, the bickering that
none of us are entirely immune to and it trivialises the profound
issues, she confessed after Pennsylvania.
As the first black man and first women vie for the most powerful job
in the world it was inevitable that race would rear its ugly head.
Obama has had to sever ties with his pastor of 20 years Rev. Jeremiah
Wright because of Wrights race remarks.
But Obamas relationship with the outspoken pastor who officiated
at his wedding, baptized his two daughters, and continues to speak
out, may still cause him problems ahead with voters.
Not surprisingly the Clintons are said to be licking their chops
because of Obamas difficulties.
The former first lady still trails in the delegates stakes and faces
an uphill climb. Her decisive Pennsylvania victory helped breathe
new life and cash into her bid for the Democratic nomination. But
a lot of potentially bitter battles are yet to be fought.
There are Democratic primaries ahead in North Carolina, Indiana, Oregon,
Kentucky, West Virginia, Montana, South Dakota and Puerto Rico, and
caucuses in Guam.
So the fight goes on and on and on, in this fierce and
bitterly divisive two-horse race.
As Democrats continue to slug it out with no end in sight, could sole
Republican contender John McCain be laughing all the way to the White
House?
The straight-talking war hero and political maverick came right from
behind to become the presumptive Republican nominee. But the Vietnam
veteran who survived five years as a prisoner of war is well used
to adversity.
AT 71, he is seen as the common sense conservative. He is also a vocal
force on military matters and foreign policy.
A critic of Donald Rumsfelds mismanagement of the
Iraq War, he has been a strong supporter of the military surge there.
We're no longer staring into the abyss of defeat and we can
now look ahead to the genuine prospect of success, he said recently
on the surge.
He is effectively being given a free run by the ongoing Democratic
battle between Obama and Clinton.
The longer they continue to attack each other instead of him the more
McCain can afford to smile.