An Associated Press story reports that while Obama’s speech was being aired live in China the broadcast suddenly went to anchors when the words “communism” and “dissent” popped up. In translations too certain incendiary sentences are deleted, which makes me wonder what kind of aspiring world power could be so terrified of a few harmless [...]
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Having slept through the inauguration I printed out a copy of Obama’s speech to read on the train home. Behind it I stapled a couple of commentaries, one by William Safire and the other by Bob Herbert, neither of which did much to shake the thought that the words before me seemed empty. There’s a [...]
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Yesterday I looked at the date and realized with utter astonishment that Bush is going to be out of office in less than one week. With the world falling apart at the seams, that seminal event which I have not infrequently imagined/fantasized about is upon us and I hardly even noticed. Who else but the [...]
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Funny that Palin mentioned North Korean leader Kim Jong-il several times (see, ya guys, I do have what it takes, cause I know their names, and I can see some of them), considering she shares his knack for turning weakness into strength. Like Kim, Pailn uses her disadvantages — lack of understanding, experience, knowledge, vision [...]
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Stepping away from Korea for a second to offer up a plea/prayer/hope (call it what you will) that McCain loses this November. Speaking with a young Korean American colleague who hails from the deep south (not Korea, but the US) the other day, I was a little surprised to learn that she is leaning towards [...]
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Watching a CNN special on John McCain yesterday I was reminded of my grandfather and a conversation I had with him shortly before he passed away. He had been trying to read Thomas Friedman’s The World is Flat, but ultimately gave it up because, as he said, “it wasn’t for his generation.” Seeing friends, acquaintances, [...]
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Yesterday as people in my office in downtown Seoul gathered around the TV to watch Obama deliver his speech in Denver, a colleague from Sudan turned to me and said, a smile playing on the corners of his mouth, “who would ever have suspected that 49 years ago an African man in Kenya would father [...]
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