The 44th President of the United States has been sworn in!
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Pl tell me how LKY spoke on Obama.
I get this:
You have to solve the Palestinian-Arab problem; if not, you are giving them a stick to beat the drum with. Everyone in Europe is rooting for Mr Obama, but he said that Jerusalem shall be the undivided capital of Israel. If that is so, how do you have a two-state solution? He has already disqualified himself from ever coming up with a two-state solution. That means that you postpone it for another eight years if he wins, so the thing drags on. I am not very optimistic.
http://www.iiss.org.uk/recent-key-addresses/lee-kuan-yew-address/
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Originally posted by lionnoisy:
Pl tell me how LKY spoke on Obama.
I get this:
You have to solve the Palestinian-Arab problem; if not, you are giving them a stick to beat the drum with. Everyone in Europe is rooting for Mr Obama, but he said that Jerusalem shall be the undivided capital of Israel. If that is so, how do you have a two-state solution? He has already disqualified himself from ever coming up with a two-state solution. That means that you postpone it for another eight years if he wins, so the thing drags on. I am not very optimistic.
http://www.iiss.org.uk/recent-key-addresses/lee-kuan-yew-address/
Who cares about this senile old man who overstays in his job, chay!
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Originally posted by Stevenson101:
Heh. Or perhaps i understand the point more than you think.
LKY will die sooner or later, that's a biological fact. PAP will crumble sooner or later, history has proven no exceptions.
Will you be happy with whatever government we will get then? Hell no.
Will you be happy with whatever government we will get then?
that is what the PAP has been using that theme for the last few decade....during election.....FEAR. if not "them".... "who" A single party has prove its weakness in finding 21st century solutions. It ideas evolved in the same premises.
So how can you continue to buy that argument? Aren't you tired?
SG travel far and see the world and will have to find its own solution to continue. There are no patriach politics. Its time to turn that Page.
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Originally posted by maurizio13:
You want to bet?
If you had read his books you will know that he is a fighter, not a quitter.
Come on la, give the others a chance leh. Next time would be for Republican liao. -
Originally posted by seotiblizzard:
Come on la, give the others a chance leh. Next time would be for Republican liao.
what political party is obama from? -
Originally posted by Fantagf:
what political party is obama from?
Golka party -
Originally posted by Fantagf:
Who cares about this senile old man who overstays in his job, chay!
because of people like you not caring about this senile old man, he got the freedom to overstays longer and stronger. -
Originally posted by angel7030:
because of people like you not caring about this senile old man, he got the freedom to overstays longer and stronger.
I care for him very much that is why I want him to take a break and resign. Why strive so hard, can't bring the hard earn money along when he passes on. -
Originally posted by Fantagf:
I care for him very much that is why I want him to take a break and resign. Why strive so hard, can't bring the hard earn money along when he passes on.
long live the emperor!!!, he sacrificed himself to show to singaporean that long life learning, employment and employability can be achieve.Long Live Emperor Lee!!!
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Originally posted by angel7030:
long live the emperor!!!, he sacrificed himself to show to singaporean that long life learning, employment and employability can be achieve.Long Live Emperor Lee!!!
U prata prata. -
Originally posted by Fantagf:
U prata prata.
cannot tosai abit meh?? -
Originally posted by angel7030:
cannot tosai abit meh??
tandoori then -
Originally posted by Fantagf:
tandoori then
how about jarpati and nun -
Originally posted by angel7030:
how about jarpati and nun
no no, want murtabak -
Originally posted by Fantagf:
no no, want murtabak
Briyani!!! me eat liao fat fat lor. But very nice lah. Yummy!!Roti john
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Originally posted by angel7030:
Briyani!!! me eat liao fat fat lor. But very nice lah. Yummy!!Roti john
kambing soup -
Originally posted by Fantagf:
kambing soup
kambing tulang -
Originally posted by angel7030:
kambing tulang
rendeng beef -
Originally posted by Fantagf:
rendeng beef
O..mama teh tarik!!! -
Originally posted by angel7030:
O..mama teh tarik!!!my gado gado, sedap!
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Originally posted by Fantagf:
my gado gado, sedap!
aiyo, very hungry liao, stop it!!!!!...back to American President!!! -
He's brimming with potential. At least some, unlike Selapan Nathan's - whose Presidency is a farce.
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Originally posted by ceecookie:
He's brimming with potential. At least some, unlike Selapan Nathan's - whose Presidency is a farce.
our pres nathan is "attached with strings" linked to his masters. See the difference? -
Originally posted by Arapahoe:
You mean LHL could write speech like this.......?
To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society's ills on the West — know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy. To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.
To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist-----Obama
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• Chief speechwriter known as president's mind reader
- The Guardian, Tuesday 20 January 2009
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/20/barack-obama-inauguration-us-speech
When Barack Obama steps up to the podium to deliver his inaugural address, one man standing anonymously in the crowd will be paying especially close attention. With his cropped hair, five o'clock shadow and boyish face, he might look out of place among the dignitaries, though as co-author of the speech this man has more claim than most to be a witness to this moment of history.
Jon Favreau, 27, is, as Obama himself puts it, the president's mind reader. He is the youngest chief speechwriter on record in the White House, and, despite such youth, was at the centre of discussions of the content of today's speech, one which has so much riding on it.
For a politician whose rise to prominence was largely built upon his powers as an orator, Obama is well versed in the arts of speech-making. But today's effort will tower over all previous ones.
It is not just that Obama has set an extremely high bar by invoking the inaugural speeches of Abraham Lincoln as his inspiration - admitting to feeling "intimidated" when he read them. It is also that, as he begins his term with the US in an economic crisis and two wars, he knows he needs to kick start his presidency with a soaring rhetoric that both moves and motivates the American people.
The tone of the speech could be decisive in determining how the public responds to his first 100 days, as Franklin Roosevelt's famous line "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself" helped to determine his.
Obama aides have let it be known that a key theme will be restoring responsibility - both in terms of accountability in Washington and the responsibility of ordinary people to get involved. Rahm Emanuel, Obama's chief of staff, talks of a "culture of responsibility" that would "not just be asked of the American people; its leaders must also lead by example."
In composing the high notes of the speech, Obama has leant on Favreau, whom he discovered almost by chance four years ago when the younger man was working on John Kerry's failed presidential bid. "Favs" has since studied Obama's speech patterns and cadences with the intensity of a stalker. He memorised the 2004 speech to the Democratic national convention which first brought Obama into the limelight. He is said to carry Obama's autobiography, Dreams From My Father, wherever he goes. As a result, last November when Favreau sat down to write the first draft of the inaugural address, he could conjure up his master's voice as if an accomplished impersonator.
That skill had been put to almost daily use in the 18 months of brutal campaigning on the presidential trail. Favreau would be up most nights until 3am, honing the next day's stump speeches in a caffeine haze of espressos and Red Bull energy drinks, taking breaks to play the video game Rock Band. He coined a phrase for this late-night deadline surfing: "crashing".
He crashed his way through all Obama's most memorable speeches. He wrote the draft of one that helped to turn Iowa for Obama while closeted in a coffee shop in Des Moines. For the presidential election, he wrote two speeches: one for a victory, one for defeat. When the result came through, he emailed his best friend: "Dude, we won. Oh my God."
The tension between such youthful outbursts and his onerous role has sometimes cost the 27-year-old. In December, pictures of him and a friend mocking a cardboard cut-out of Hillary Clinton at a party, Favreau's hand on her breast, were posted on Facebook to his huge embarrassment.
Obama is an accomplished writer in his own right, and the process of drafting with his mind reader is collaborative. The inaugural speech has shuttled between them four or five times, following an initial hour-long meeting in which the president-elect spoke about his vision for the address, and Favreau took notes on his computer.
Favreau then went away and spent weeks on research. His team interviewed historians and speech writers, studied periods of crisis, and listened to past inaugural orations. When ready, he took up residence in Starbucks in Washington and wrote the first draft. The end result will be uttered on the steps of the Capitol.
Obama's mind reader has crashed his way through yet another deadline.