Comments on: Australia’s response to the US election

By: OneFlew

OneFlew — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 21:52:14 +0000

Mark, it’s an incomparably bigger event than SA 1994.

But it is of course not by any stretch the most important event in decades. The collapse of the Soviet Union was, for instance, much bigger.

By: Sarah Britten

Sarah Britten — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:57:40 +0000

Greg Sheridan, foreign editor of The Australian, bemoans the departure of a “great friend of Australia”, Bush, a man who prompted the involvement of Australians in a war in which they had no strategic interest:
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24608680-7583,00.html

Some friend.

By: Sarah Britten

Sarah Britten — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 08:26:32 +0000

@ me: the likelihood is that the people I have encountered (urban, educated, relatively high income) and the people who read The Economist are relatively liberal anyway. Interestingly, the media has been broadly very pro the Obama victory (with the exception of The Australian, which bemoaned the departure of Bush, who was suuuch a good friend of australia).

By: mark

mark — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 07:36:20 +0000

The greatest event i decades?
comparable to south africa circa 1994 really?
i dont think so, the best candidate won as it should be now i wish that in south africas next ellection that people would vote for the best candidate instead of for the black or white candidate

By: me

me — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 05:59:04 +0000

Just to think the Australians were taking black kids away from their families only 40 years ago and racially taunting both the Proteas and the Indian cricket teams just a year ago, wow how they have matured the perfect example of A Not in my Backyard sort of nation.

By: Sarah Britten

Sarah Britten — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 02:26:56 +0000

I imagine that a lot of Republicans are deeply depressed right now and acting out. To which I can only say: nyah nyah.

By: Oosthuizen

Oosthuizen — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 01:10:31 +0000

What MB does not understand is that everybody is fully aware that after the honeymoon comes the real work, the real politicking where many frustrations come in.

What 94 and Obama victory emphsises is a new era of thought and atttitude, not a lack of a willingness to act. Many of the revellers are well aware that setbacks is due and it is going to take hard work and determination to achieve certain ideals. They know that when difficult times come upon the course which they have taken they have press on, re organise and even change strategies which is characteristic of the SA post apartheid landscape. I will be very surprised if Obama does not hit major challenges and obstacles in what he has set out to do.

It is only the weak and the negative that throw their hands up in despair. But then again success is not for the weak and the negative. SA is still on-course with what it initially set out to do.

GO RAINBOW NATION !
GO OBAMA !

By: Sarah britten

Sarah britten — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:20:42 +0000

MB, may you and your ghastly redneck fellow-travellers spend many, many years in the political wilderness you so richly deserve.

By: MB

MB — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 11:31:52 +0000

“Enjoy the glow?” The same glow after 1994 in SA that resulted in you leaving the country? Oh, wake up liberals!!!!

BTW, speak for yourself. I’ll happily admit to being a Republican. I’d be embarrassed to be a Dem or Obummer supporter.