Barack News

With the election drawing ever-nearer it's time to bring to mind once again the uniqueness of this contest. Not in the positions of the candidates on health or foreign policy, or even the economy. No, the first name uniqueness.

Sydney - Amnesty International and Act for Peace held a demonstration in Martin Place, Sydney to send a message to US President Barack Obama to reject the human rights escape clause in the current UN arms trade negotiations.

The movement against perpetual wars for perpetual peace has become a broader church of late; retired architect James Thring is one of the loudest voices in this ad hoc coalition.

Barack Obama may have been a disappointment as the candidate of change, but the alternatives in 2012 are a Christian Zionist who may well start World War III, and a woman who would allow the unemployed to starve.

Milwaukee - A Wisconsin bartender encouraged by drunken patrons of a Milwaukee Pub and Grill set a statue of President Obama on fire as customers sang, danced, drank and toasted the fiery end of Obama's political policy that the majority of the group disagree with.

Dealing with issues of racial inequality in America is part and parcel of the tremendous responsibility President Obama willingly took on when he became our nation's first black president.

In recent days, I could not help but think our new president is having second thoughts on the whole thing. Not only does he face economic crises here at home, he now faces off with the same old US adversaries abroad. Not much Hope for Change there.

Weighing in at a hefty 250 pounds (ouch), an elephant calf was the first born of Ringling Bros‘. 14-year-old Bonnie. A bonnie gal indeed -- she had been performing at the circus until recently.

Obama. The word divides the country into two sides; those who love him, and those who don't. The day after inauguration day, I pause and wonder: why are we so wrapped up in this man, since he's going to so obviously be ineffectual?

With the landslide victory of President Elect Barack Obama to the U.S. Presidency, how will this impact Canada? Will this administration be better equipped to handle the sometimes strained relationship between Canada and the U.S.A.? Lest they forget?