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Why didn’t McCain just pick Tina Fey? Or Britney Spears? The GOP waves a white flag with Sarah Palin, an empty pant-suit
I took a day to recuperate from the high of being a part of the crowd in Denver to witness the Obama acceptance speech, where B.O. tranformed on the 45th anniversary of MLK’s speech “I have a dream, into the “American Promise.”
I had thought the historic reach of the speech was just the fact that [...] -
The Jindal Scuttlebutt
My disdain for Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal is well-documented in one of my previous columns:
http://www.asianweek.com/2007/10/26/uncle-bob-jindal-man-of-no-color/
If you’ve been wondering what’s happened to Jindal since his rise in October, the man I’ve called the “Obama of the Right” has caught the attention of the McCain camp.
In a race this Fall that’s all about change, where’s the change [...] -
Obama? Clinton? Fine with either?
If you are just happy to back whatever Democrat wins the primary, you are way too agreeable compared to your fellow Democrats, according to the results of a new New York Times/CBS poll.
Sixty percent of the Obama supporters would be fine with Clinton, only half the Clinton folks would be fine with Obama, and nearly [...] -
Are you hoarding rice?
My family is half-Filipino, half-Caucasian.
Here’s one good thing about my family of Caucapinos:
We eat half the amount of rice as the normal Asian American family.
So I’m not experiencing the same rice woes as some others.
I started hearing about empty rice shelves at places like Costco and Sam’s Club last week. My friend was told [...] -
Hillary–Asian America’s candidate–scores on electability
If you missed the debate last night you can read it here.
After all the debates this campaign, this one really did feel like the 15th round of a championship fight.
With Obama in the delegate lead, he was in major avoidance mode, being more defensive than not, trying to hang on and not slip up. Clinton, [...] -
Newsom’s Olympic fig leaf
Mayor Gavin Newsom is doing the only thing he can do right now: he’s hiding behind the issue of safety.
On a KCBS radio interview, Newsom said he was “sorry” people didn’t see the torch along the announced route. The mayor said the change was made in “real time” to assure the safety of the torch [...] -
Olympics of Chaos
Imagine you gave a party and your guests arrived, but at the last minute you decided to have your cake somewhere else—without your guests.
Does that sound bizarre?
But isn’t that exactly what’s happening on San Francisco streets as city and Olympic officials try so hard to avoid protesters or the general public?
This is Chinese freedom in [...] -
The torch will go on–and so will protest
You didn’t think they’d stop it did you? That’s what they’d do in China, perhaps. Not here.
What we’re likely to see Wednesday is messy democracy in action. People bring on a torch. Others protest the symbol. Free speech is free speech. You don’t limit it. You say, “bring it on.”
The Chinese Chamber folks are funny, [...] -
Playing ball with China–Urging not bashing over Tibet and “splittism”
Maybe you didn’t notice. On the Ides of March, no less, baseball– America’s game–was Nero’s fiddle while Rome burned.
Hey, sports fans, in this column you’ll need a scorecard to count the metaphors.
Or the dead.
You see, it wasn’t Rome. It was Lhasa, Tibet. And the city didn’t burn, but dozens of people protesting for democracy lost [...] -
Farewell to my friend and fellow journalist, Dith Pran
Dith Pran, who dedicated his life to exposing the horrors of the Cambodian genocide, has succumbed to pancreatic cancer at age 65.
I talked to Pran and his wife two weeks ago over the phone. It was a lousy cell phone connection. He told me he had lots of phone calls, but despite just being released [...]