Nov 28, 2008

Our Anniversary

၂၀၀၇ ခုႏွစ္ ႏို၀င္ဘာ ၂၈ ရက္ေန႔မွာ ကၽြန္ေတာ့္ဘ၀လက္တြဲေဖာ္ စကားပန္းေလး ပိုးနဲ႔ လက္မွတ္ထိုးခဲ့တာ ဆိုေတာ့ ဒီေန႔ တစ္ႏွစ္တိတိျပည့္တဲ့ေန႔ပဲ။

၁ ႏွစ္ဆိုတာ တကယ္ေတာ့ ဘာမွ မၾကာလိုက္သလိုပဲ။ ေက်ာင္းတုန္းက သူငယ္ခ်င္းေတြလည္း တစ္ေယာက္ၿပီး တစ္ေယာက္ မိန္းမ ရကုန္ၾကၿပီ။ အသက္ေတြ မငယ္ေတာ့ဘူးဆိုေတာ့ ျဖစ္ႏိုင္ရင္ ေအးေအးခ်မ္းခ်မ္းပဲ ေနခ်င္ေတာ့တယ္။ ကိုယ့္တိုင္းျပည္မွာ ကိုယ္ျပန္ေနရေအာင္ကလည္း... ။ ေလာေလာဆယ္ေတာ့ စကၤာပူရဲ႕ အပူအပင္မ်ားတဲ့ ဘ၀ေတြထဲက ရုန္းမထြက္ႏိုင္ေသးဘူး။ စကၤာပူကို ကိုယ့္ေနာက္မွ ေရာက္တဲ့ သူငယ္ခ်င္းေတြ ဒီကေန ခြာကုန္ၾကၿပီ။

ဘယ္လိုပဲ ျဖစ္ျဖစ္ စကၤာပူမွာ ဘယ္ေလာက္ stress မ်ားမ်ား ေဘးနားကေန အားေပးတတ္ ဂရုစိုက္တတ္တဲ့ ၾကင္သူသက္ထားရွိေနလို႔ ေတာ္ပါေသးတယ္။ တာရာမင္းေ၀ကဗ်ာတစ္ပုဒ္ထဲကလို "တကယ္ေတာ့ ၿမိဳ႕ပ်က္ႀကီး တစ္ခုပါပဲ .. ဒါေပမယ့္ ဗ်တ္ေစာင္းေလး တစ္လက္ရွိလို႔ ကိုယ္ခ်ဳိမိတယ္" တဲ့။

မႏွစ္က ေရးျဖစ္တဲ့ ကဗ်ာေလးကို ျပန္ဖတ္ၿပီး အခ်ိန္ ၁ ႏွစ္ေလာက္ ခဏ ေနာက္ျပန္သြားမိတယ္။


(ဒါကေတာ့ ဓာတ္ပံု-ဇင္ကိုလတ္ရဲ႕ လက္ရာကို picasa နဲ႔ နည္းနည္း ျပင္ထားတဲ့ပံုပါ)

"လက္ထပ္ပြဲ"

အၾကင္နာဟာ
ဖိတ္စာကို ကမ္းၿပီး
တစ္လွမ္းခ်င္း လာေနတယ္။

ေျပာင္ေျပာင္လက္လက္ေတြ မလိုဘူး
ၿပိဳးၿပိဳးျပက္ျပက္ေတြ မလိုဘူး
အေဆာင္အေယာင္ေတြ
အေယာင္ေဆာင္ေတြ မလိုပါဘူးကြယ္။

ဟိုပုဂၢိဳလ္ႀကီး စြပ္ေပးမယ့္ပန္းကံုးမွ မဟုတ္ဘူး
ဟိုကေတာ္ႀကီး စြပ္ေပးမယ့္ လက္စြပ္မွ မဟုတ္ဘူး
ဟို ခမ္းခမ္းနားနား ..
ဟိုတယ္ခန္းမႀကီးမွ မဟုတ္ပါဘူးကြယ္။

လက္ထပ္တယ္ဆိုတာ
ဘ၀ႏွစ္ခု တစ္ခုထဲ ထပ္လိုက္တာ
လက္ထပ္တယ္ဆိုတာ
အသက္႐ွဴသံ တစ္ခုထဲ ထြက္ေတာ့တာ
ၿပီးေတာ့..
လက္ထပ္တယ္ ဆိုတာ
ႏွစ္ကိုယ္ၾကား နားလည္မႈဘာသာေဗဒနဲ႔
ယံုၾကည္သက္၀င္စြာ
တိမ္းမူး႐ူးသြပ္စြာ
ခ်စ္မက္ျမတ္ႏိုးစြာ
ကမၻာသစ္တစ္ခုကို ဖန္တီးၾကျခင္းသာ ျဖစ္တယ္။

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Nov 26, 2008

လြဲေနတဲ့ကဗ်ာ

၈ နာရီခြဲကေန ၆ နာရီ အထိ
ဦးေႏွာက္ကို ခ်ေရာင္း
ခံစားခ်က္ ေဟာင္းေလာင္းနဲ႔
မန္ေနဂ်ာရဲ႕ ေသနတ္ေျပာင္း၀ေ႐ွ႕မွာ ရပ္
ဘာဆိုဘာမွ
အာမခံခ်က္ မ႐ွိတဲ့ ေန႔ရက္ေတြထဲ။

မေန႔ကလည္း ဒီေန႔အတိုင္း
ဒီေန႔လည္း မေန႔က အတိုင္း
မေန႔ကလည္း မနက္ျဖန္အတိုင္း
မနက္ျဖန္လည္း ဒီေန႔အတိုင္း
ဒီေန႔လည္း မနက္ျဖန္အတိုင္း
မနက္ျဖန္လည္း မေန႔ကအတိုင္း
ကမၻာႀကီးဟာ ဦးတည္ရာမဲ့ လည္ေနသလိုလိုနဲ႔ ရပ္တန္႔ေန။

တန္ဖိုးဆိုတာ
ေရာင္းသူသက္သက္
၀ယ္သူသက္သက္ ဆံုးျဖတ္ႏိုင္တဲ့ ကိစၥမဟုတ္ဘူး
ပညာ၊ ဥစၥာ၊ ေအာင္ျမင္မႈရဲ႕ တန္ရာတန္ဖိုးဟာ
ခင္ဗ်ား ဘယ္ေလာက္လိုခ်င္သလဲဆိုတာ၊
ခင္ဗ်ား ဘယ္ေလာက္ေပးႏိုင္သလဲဆိုတာနဲ႔ စကားေျပာတယ္
၀ယ္လိုအား ေရာင္းလိုအား မမွ်တဲ့ အေနအထားမွာ
လကုန္ရင္ ၀င္လာမယ့္ ကိန္းဂဏန္းေတြ
လကုန္ရင္ ထြက္သြားမယ့္ ကိန္းဂဏန္းေတြကို
ေန႔စဥ္ရက္ဆက္ဆိုသလို
တြက္ရခ်က္ရ တိုင္းရထြာရ ခ်ိန္ရဆရ
တကယ္ေတာ့ ေငြဆိုတာ အတၱစကၠဴပါး တစ္မ်ဳိးပဲ
ဘ၀ကေတာ့ ကာရန္လြဲေနတဲ့ ကဗ်ာတစ္ပုဒ္ေပါ့
အစီအစဥ္မက်စြာ အစီအစဥ္က်ေနတာကလြဲရင္
လြဲေနတဲ့ကဗ်ာကိုခ်ည္း ေတာက္ေလွ်ာက္ ႐ြတ္ေနမိခဲ့တယ္။

ေခလြန္း
ညေန ၄ နာရီ ၆ မိနစ္
၂၆ ရက္ ႏို၀င္ဘာလ၊ ၂၀၀၈

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Nov 17, 2008

အီလက္ထ႐ြန္းနစ္အက္ဥပေဒ

ဘေလာ့ဂါေနဘုန္းလတ္နဲ႔ အျခားေသာသူေတြကို ဒီရက္ပိုင္းမွာ ေထာင္ဒဏ္ႏွစ္႐ွည္ခ်ရာမွာ အဓိက အခန္းက႑က ပါ၀င္ခဲ့တဲ့ ဗီလိန္ဥပေဒတစ္ခုျဖစ္တဲ့ အီလက္ထ႐ြန္းနစ္ အက္ဥပေဒကို ဒီေနရာကေန တဆင့္ ရယူႏိုင္ပါတယ္။

ဒီဥပေဒကို ၂၀၀၄ ခုႏွစ္ ဧၿပီလ ၃၀ ရက္ေန႔မွာ စတင္ ျပဌာန္းခဲ့တာပါ။

မရရေအာင္ လိုက္႐ွာကာ တစ္႐ြက္ခ်င္း အပင္ပန္းခံ scan ဖတ္ၿပီး အီးေမးလ္နဲ႔ တကူးတက ပို႔ေပးတဲ့ “ ***** ” ကို အထူးပဲ ေက်းဇူးတင္ပါတယ္။

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Nov 10, 2008

ဘေလာ့ဂါ ေနဘုန္းလတ္အား အမိန္႔ခ်လိုက္ၿပီ

အခုေလာက္ မ်ားလိမ့္မယ္ ထင္မထားဘူး။ အႏွစ္ ၂၀ နဲ႔ ၆ လ တဲ့။ ခင္ဗ်ားတို႔ သားသမီးေတြ အဲလိုမ်ား ေထာင္ခ်ခံရလို႔႐ွိရင္ ဘယ္လိုမ်ား ေနမလဲလို႔ စစ္ေခါင္းေဆာင္ေတြကို ေမးခ်င္တယ္။ မိုးေကာင္းတုန္း ႐ြာထားလို႔ မေျပာေတာ့ဘူး။ မုန္တိုင္းေအာက္က လြတ္ေျမာက္ခြင့္ရမယ့္ ေန႔ရက္ေတြကိုပဲ အေရာက္သြားၾကဖို႔ လိုေတာ့တယ္။

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Nov 7, 2008

Electoral Vote၊ Popular Vote နဲ႔ လူထုက ေ႐ြးေကာက္တင္ေျမႇာက္တဲ့စနစ္

၁၉၆၄က စၿပီး အေမရိကန္မွာ Electoral Vote လို႔ ေခၚတဲ့ ျပည္သူလူထုက ေ႐ြးေကာက္ထားတဲ့ အနယ္နယ္အရပ္ရပ္က ကိုယ္စားလွယ္ ၅၃၈ ဦးက ေပးတဲ့ မဲ အနည္းဆံုး ၂၇၀ မဲ ရသူကို သမၼတအျဖစ္ တင္ေျမႇာက္ေလ့ ႐ွိတယ္။ တကယ္လို႔ သမၼတေလာင္း ၀င္အေ႐ြးခံတဲ့သူေတြဟာ အဲဒီ အနည္းဆံုး သတ္မွတ္ထားတဲ့ ၂၇၀ မဲ မရဘူးဆိုရင္ ေအာက္လႊတ္ေတာ္ အမတ္ေတြကို ေ႐ြးခ်ယ္ တင္ေျမႇာက္ခြင့္ ျပဳထားတယ္။ တကယ္လို႔ ေအာက္လႊတ္ေတာ္အမတ္ေတြကပါ ေ႐ြးခ်ယ္ျခင္း မျပဳႏိုင္ရင္ေတာ့ အထက္လႊတ္ေတာ္မွာ မဲခြဲၿပီး ေ႐ြးခ်ယ္ၾကပါတယ္။

ျပည္နယ္တိုင္းရဲ႕ Electoral Vote ကို အဲဒီ ျပည္နယ္မွာ Popular Vote အမ်ားဆံုးရတဲ့ သမၼတေလာင္းကို ေပးေလ့႐ွိတယ္။ ဆိုပါစို႔ .. ကယ္လီဖိုးနီးယားမွာ Electoral Vote .. ၅၅ မဲ ႐ွိတယ္။ ကယ္လီဖိုးနီးယားမွာ သမၼတေလာင္း အိုဘားမားက မက္ကိန္းထက္ Popular Vote အသာရ သြားေတာ့ အဲဒီ ၅၅ မဲ သူရသြားတယ္။ ျပည္နယ္တစ္ခုနဲ႔ တစ္ခု Electoral Vote ေပးႏိုင္စြမ္းေတြ မတူၾကဘူး။ ကယ္လီဖိုးနီးယားမွာ ၅၅ မဲ ႐ွိၿပီး၊ နယူးေယာက္မွာ ၃၁ မဲ ႐ွိေပမယ့္ အလာစကာမွာေတာ့ ၃ မဲပဲ ႐ွိတယ္။ ဆိုေတာ့ Electoral Vote မ်ားတဲ့ ျပည္နယ္ေတြမွာ Popular Vote အသာစီးရေအာင္ အၿပိဳင္ႀကဲၾကရတယ္။ ဒါမွ အဲဒီ ျပည္နယ္ရဲ႕ Electoral Vote ကို ရမွာ ျဖစ္တယ္။

၂၀၀၈ အေမရိကန္ သမၼတ ေ႐ြးေကာက္ပြဲမွာ အိုဘားမားက တစ္ႏိုင္ငံလံုး အတိုင္းအတာအားျဖင့္ Popular Vote စုစုေပါင္း ၆၄,၉၂၁,၈၃၄ မဲနဲ႔ ၅၂.၅ ရာခိုင္ႏႈန္း ရၿပီး မက္ကိန္းက Popoular Vote စုစုေပါင္း ၅၇,၀၈၈,၄၆၀ မဲနဲ႔ ၄၆.၂ ရာခိုင္ႏႈန္းပဲ ရတယ္။ Electoral Vote အားျဖင့္ အိုဘားမားက ၃၆၄ မဲ ရၿပီး မက္ကိန္းက ၁၆၂ မဲ ပဲ ရခဲ့တဲ့အတြက္ အိုဘားမား အႏိုင္ရသြားတယ္။

၂၀၀၀ ျပည့္ႏွစ္ အေမရိကန္ သမၼတ ေ႐ြးေကာက္ပြဲတုန္းက အယ္လ္ဂိုးဟာ ေဂ်ာ့ဘု႐ွ္ထက္ တစ္ႏိုင္ငံလံုး အတိုင္းအတာမွာ Popular Vote သာေပမယ့္ Electoral Vote မွာ ေလ်ာ့နည္းခဲ့တဲ့ အတြက္ အေရးနိမ့္ခဲ့ရတယ္။



အေမရိကန္ ႏိုင္ငံေရးစနစ္မွာ သံုးေလ့သံုးထ႐ွိတဲ့ စကားလံုးေတြထဲက အခ်ဳိ႕ကို အနက္ဖြင့္ေပးထားပါတယ္။


GOP = Grand Old Party ( သက္တမ္းအ႐ွည္ၾကာဆံုး ရီပဘလီကန္ပါတီကို ရည္ညႊန္းျခင္းျဖစ္သည္။ )
Blue States = ဒီမိုကရက္တစ္ပါတီႀကီးစိုးသည့္ ျပည္နယ္မ်ား
Red States = ရီပဘလီကန္္ပါတီႀကီးစိုးသည့္ ျပည္နယ္မ်ား
House of Representatives / Congress = ေအာက္လႊတ္ေတာ္
Congressman / Member of Congress = ေအာက္လႊတ္ေတာ္အမတ္
Senate = အထက္လႊတ္ေတာ္
Senator = အထက္လႊတ္ေတာ္အမတ္
Popular Votes = ျပည္သူျပည္သားတို႔က ေပးသည့္ မဲမ်ား
Electoral Votes = ျပည္သူလူထုက ေ႐ြးေကာက္ထားသည့္ ကိုယ္စားလွယ္တို႔က ေပးသည့္ မဲမ်ား
Bipartisanship = ပါတီႏွစ္ခုႀကီးစိုးသည့္ ႏိုင္ငံေရး စနစ္တြင္ ကိစၥရပ္တစ္ခုအေပၚ ပါတီႏွစ္ခုစလံုး၏ သေဘာထား တူညီစြာ ထား႐ွိမႈ

Reference: Wikipedia

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သတင္းစာမ်ားက ေျပာေသာသမိုင္း

အိုဘားမားရဲ႕ ေအာင္ပြဲသတင္းေတြ ပလူပ်ံေနတဲ့ သတင္းစာေတြဟာ အေမရိကမွာ ေရာင္းမေလာက္ေအာင္ ျဖစ္ခဲ့ၿပီး အႀကိမ္ႀကိမ္ ပံုႏွိပ္ခဲ့ရပါတယ္။ တခ်ိန္မွာ ေနာင္လာေနာက္သားေတြကို ျပဖို႔ဆိုတဲ့ ရည္႐ြယ္ခ်က္နဲ႔ သိမ္းထားခ်င္သူေတြက ဒုနဲ႔ေဒးဆိုေတာ့ သတင္းစာေတြကို တန္းစီၿပီး ေစာင့္၀ယ္ရတဲ့ အထိ ျဖစ္ခဲ့တာပါ။




The Sun, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Chicago Tribune, Telegraph အစ႐ွိတဲ့ ႏို၀င္ဘာ ၅ ရက္ေန႔ထုတ္ အေမရိကန္နဲ႔ ကမၻာအရပ္ရပ္က သတင္းစာ မ်က္ႏွာဖံုးေတြကို အမွတ္တရ သိမ္းထားလိုသူေတြ ေအာက္ပါ လင့္ခ္ကေန တဆင့္ သြားေရာက္ သိမ္းဆည္းႏိုင္ပါတယ္။

http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/default_archive.asp?fpArchive=110508

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Nov 5, 2008

Change has come to America - Victory Speech by Obama

I'm so delighted Obama has won the election and finally become the President of United States after having a tough battles for 21 months. Below is the victory speech by Obama at Grant Park in Chicago. He'll take office in 20th Jan to be the 44th President and first African American President. I wish I could translate that into burmese soon. But for now, pardon me for posting the original speech.

[nyi nyi]

"Change has come to America"

OBAMA: Hello, Chicago.

(APPLAUSE)

If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.

(APPLAUSE)

It's the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen, by people who waited three hours and four hours, many for the first time in their lives, because they believed that this time must be different, that their voices could be that difference.

It's the answer spoken by young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled. Americans who sent a message to the world that we have never been just a collection of individuals or a collection of red states and blue states.

OBAMA: We are, and always will be, the United States of America.

(APPLAUSE)

It's the answer that led those who've been told for so long by so many to be cynical and fearful and doubtful about what we can achieve to put their hands on the arc of history and bend it once more toward the hope of a better day.

It's been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this date in this election at this defining moment change has come to America.

(APPLAUSE)

It's the answer that led those who've been told for so long by so many to be cynical and fearful and doubtful about what we can achieve to put their hands on the arc of history and bend it once more toward the hope of a better day.

It's been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this date in this election at this defining moment change has come to America.

(APPLAUSE)

A little bit earlier this evening, I received an extraordinarily gracious call from Senator McCain.

(APPLAUSE)

Senator McCain fought long and hard in this campaign. And he's fought even longer and harder for the country that he loves. He has endured sacrifices for America that most of us cannot begin to imagine. We are better off for the service rendered by this brave and selfless leader.

I congratulate him; I congratulate Governor Palin for all that they've achieved. And I look forward to working with them to renew this nation's promise in the months ahead.

(APPLAUSE)

OBAMA: I want to thank my partner in this journey, a man who campaigned from his heart, and spoke for the men and women he grew up with on the streets of Scranton...

(APPLAUSE)

... and rode with on the train home to Delaware, the vice president-elect of the United States, Joe Biden.

(APPLAUSE)

And I would not be standing here tonight without the unyielding support of my best friend for the last 16 years...

(APPLAUSE)

... the rock of our family, the love of my life, the nation's next first lady...

(APPLAUSE)

... Michelle Obama.

(APPLAUSE)

Sasha and Malia...

(APPLAUSE)

... I love you both more than you can imagine. And you have earned the new puppy that's coming with us...

(LAUGHTER)

... to the new White House.

(APPLAUSE)

And while she's no longer with us, I know my grandmother's watching, along with the family that made me who I am. I miss them tonight. I know that my debt to them is beyond measure.

To my sister Maya, my sister Alma, all my other brothers and sisters, thank you so much for all the support that you've given me. I am grateful to them.

(APPLAUSE)

OBAMA: And to my campaign manager, David Plouffe...

(APPLAUSE)

OBAMA: ... the unsung hero of this campaign, who built the best -- the best political campaign, I think, in the history of the United States of America.

(APPLAUSE)

To my chief strategist David Axelrod...

(APPLAUSE)

... who's been a partner with me every step of the way.

To the best campaign team ever assembled in the history of politics...

(APPLAUSE)

... you made this happen, and I am forever grateful for what you've sacrificed to get it done.

But above all, I will never forget who this victory truly belongs to. It belongs to you. It belongs to you.

I was never the likeliest candidate for this office. We didn't start with much money or many endorsements. Our campaign was not hatched in the halls of Washington. It began in the backyards of Des Moines and the living rooms of Concord and the front porches of Charleston. It was built by working men and women who dug into what little savings they had to give $5 and $10 and $20 to the cause.

It grew strength from the young people who rejected the myth of their generation's apathy...

(APPLAUSE)

... who left their homes and their families for jobs that offered little pay and less sleep.

It drew strength from the not-so-young people who braved the bitter cold and scorching heat to knock on doors of perfect strangers, and from the millions of Americans who volunteered and organized and proved that more than two centuries later a government of the people, by the people, and for the people has not perished from the Earth.

This is your victory.

(APPLAUSE)

OBAMA: And I know you didn't do this just to win an election. And I know you didn't do it for me.

You did it because you understand the enormity of the task that lies ahead. For even as we celebrate tonight, we know the challenges that tomorrow will bring are the greatest of our lifetime -- two wars, a planet in peril, the worst financial crisis in a century.

Even as we stand here tonight, we know there are brave Americans waking up in the deserts of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan to risk their lives for us.

There are mothers and fathers who will lie awake after the children fall asleep and wonder how they'll make the mortgage or pay their doctors' bills or save enough for their child's college education.

There's new energy to harness, new jobs to be created, new schools to build, and threats to meet, alliances to repair.

The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even in one term. But, America, I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there.

I promise you, we as a people will get there.

(APPLAUSE)

AUDIENCE: Yes we can! Yes we can! Yes we can!

OBAMA: There will be setbacks and false starts. There are many who won't agree with every decision or policy I make as president. And we know the government can't solve every problem.

But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face. I will listen to you, especially when we disagree. And, above all, I will ask you to join in the work of remaking this nation, the only way it's been done in America for 221 years -- block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand.

What began 21 months ago in the depths of winter cannot end on this autumn night.

This victory alone is not the change we seek. It is only the chance for us to make that change. And that cannot happen if we go back to the way things were.

It can't happen without you, without a new spirit of service, a new spirit of sacrifice.

So let us summon a new spirit of patriotism, of responsibility, where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look after not only ourselves but each other.

Let us remember that, if this financial crisis taught us anything, it's that we cannot have a thriving Wall Street while Main Street suffers.

In this country, we rise or fall as one nation, as one people. Let's resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long.

Let's remember that it was a man from this state who first carried the banner of the Republican Party to the White House, a party founded on the values of self-reliance and individual liberty and national unity.

Those are values that we all share. And while the Democratic Party has won a great victory tonight, we do so with a measure of humility and determination to heal the divides that have held back our progress.

(APPLAUSE)

As Lincoln said to a nation far more divided than ours, we are not enemies but friends. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection.

And to those Americans whose support I have yet to earn, I may not have won your vote tonight, but I hear your voices. I need your help. And I will be your president, too.

(APPLAUSE)

OBAMA: And to all those watching tonight from beyond our shores, from parliaments and palaces, to those who are huddled around radios in the forgotten corners of the world, our stories are singular, but our destiny is shared, and a new dawn of American leadership is at hand.

(APPLAUSE)

To those -- to those who would tear the world down: We will defeat you. To those who seek peace and security: We support you. And to all those who have wondered if America's beacon still burns as bright: Tonight we proved once more that the true strength of our nation comes not from the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals: democracy, liberty, opportunity and unyielding hope. (APPLAUSE)

That's the true genius of America: that America can change. Our union can be perfected. What we've already achieved gives us hope for what we can and must achieve tomorrow.

This election had many firsts and many stories that will be told for generations. But one that's on my mind tonight's about a woman who cast her ballot in Atlanta. She's a lot like the millions of others who stood in line to make their voice heard in this election except for one thing: Ann Nixon Cooper is 106 years old.

(APPLAUSE)

OBAMA: She was born just a generation past slavery; a time when there were no cars on the road or planes in the sky; when someone like her couldn't vote for two reasons -- because she was a woman and because of the color of her skin. And tonight, I think about all that she's seen throughout her century in America -- the heartache and the hope; the struggle and the progress; the times we were told that we can't, and the people who pressed on with that American creed: Yes we can. At a time when women's voices were silenced and their hopes dismissed, she lived to see them stand up and speak out and reach for the ballot. Yes we can. When there was despair in the dust bowl and depression across the land, she saw a nation conquer fear itself with a New Deal, new jobs, a new sense of common purpose. Yes we can.

AUDIENCE: Yes we can.

OBAMA: When the bombs fell on our harbor and tyranny threatened the world, she was there to witness a generation rise to greatness and a democracy was saved. Yes we can.

AUDIENCE: Yes we can.

OBAMA: She was there for the buses in Montgomery, the hoses in Birmingham, a bridge in Selma, and a preacher from Atlanta who told a people that "We Shall Overcome." Yes we can.

AUDIENCE: Yes we can.

OBAMA: A man touched down on the moon, a wall came down in Berlin, a world was connected by our own science and imagination.

And this year, in this election, she touched her finger to a screen, and cast her vote, because after 106 years in America, through the best of times and the darkest of hours, she knows how America can change.

Yes we can.

AUDIENCE: Yes we can.

OBAMA: America, we have come so far. We have seen so much. But there is so much more to do. So tonight, let us ask ourselves -- if our children should live to see the next century; if my daughters should be so lucky to live as long as Ann Nixon Cooper, what change will they see? What progress will we have made?

This is our chance to answer that call. This is our moment.

This is our time, to put our people back to work and open doors of opportunity for our kids; to restore prosperity and promote the cause of peace; to reclaim the American dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth, that, out of many, we are one; that while we breathe, we hope. And where we are met with cynicism and doubts and those who tell us that we can't, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes, we can.

(APPLAUSE)

Thank you. God bless you. And may God bless the United States of America.

(APPLAUSE)

END

Source: Washington Post

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Twitter Opinion Poll

I smiled upon hearing when my sister in US told me what my nephew said to her when he woke up. Guess what? He said it's voting day for Obama. He's just started schooling by the way.

I read in news that kids from many elementary schools in US are allowed to cast their votes in mock election and Obama won landslide victory. :)

Technology has changed and make voting process not only for the adults also for the kids. And it's not limited to Americans. Online citizens took part and voted who their favourite US president candidate is on twitter.



I voted for Obama in Twitter Opinion-Poll. Take a look at how much Internet users favor Obama to become the president of United States.

You may visit to the following twitter site to cast your vote if you wish to.
http://twitvote.twitmarks.com

For those who wanna follow US election news, follow twitter updates from the link below. It keeps on refreshing very quickly.
http://election.twitter.com

FYI, my twitter account is at http://twitter.com/nyinyithanlwin

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Nov 4, 2008

Obama for America

Today is the judgement day and America will decide who their 44th president will be. I've been looking forward to this day as it's been an interesting journey to follow the presidential candidates on their way to White House.

I’m a die-hard supporter of Mr Barack Obama, Illinois senator, Democratic Party nominee and the potential frontrunner to become the first African American president of United States.

I first knew him from his famous speech back in 2004 during national convention of Democratic Party. His voice and the words he used were so convincing. In his speech, he acclaimed, “There is not a liberal America and a conservative America; there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a White America and Latino America and Asian America; there is the United States of America”. That made me remembers the well-known speeches of former US president, J.F. Kennedy’s speech urging Americans, “Ask not what the country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country” and Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech. Indeed, American dreams will soon turn into reality.

Most of us know him as Obama. Some know him as Barack Obama. Guess what’s the full name of Obama?

It’s Barack Hussein Obama.

Barack means “blessed”. He’s truly a blessed son born from Kenyan black father and Kansas white mother. His opponent used to criticize on his middle name, Hussein, accusing him of Muslim. Republican Vice President Candidate, Sarah Palin once asked voters, “Are you going to vote for McCain or Hussein?” That’s really horrible. Can we expect someone like her love to call names to become the vice president of United States? Dream on. Anyway, there’re folks concerning about his middle name. I’d rather say these folks are living in 21st Century with 20th Century mindsets. In my humble opinion, I don’t bother much about the title of the book so long as the content is attractive enough for me to read. Apparently, Obama is like an interesting book the whole world is waiting to read.

Obama campaign was a great success in American history. No one has ever raised the funds as much as his campaign did. He was endorsed by big tech firms in Silicon Valley. Most Internet users favour him more than they did to his rival, McCain. These are some of the proven facts that he’s an inspirational leader and has the ability to lead seriously, effectively and significantly.

It is my deepest sympathy with condolence to learn grandmother of Obama was died with cancer on the eve of the Election Day. She missed a chance to see his grandson giving speech in White House as a president. Anyway, she would be proud to be a grandmother of first African American President of United States.

If he’s elected as president, I’ll be so grateful to be part of the historic moment a first African American to be named as President. The time is ripe. I believe America having the best political system on earth is now ready for the change to fulfil the promise of Martin Luther King Jr.

Winning news from New Hampshire did not surprise me much as I’ve expected. I believe nothing can stop Obama from winning this election. Of all the polls, Obama is the favourite frontrunner leading 5 or more points at least which can easily defeat the margin of error. Huge crowds of voters will turn out to cast their ballots to be part of history. Make sure you don’t miss the big moment in the history witnessing the power of Obama and his aides for today is the Election Day, November 4 of 2008.

May god bless you, Obama for America!

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Nov 3, 2008

အိပ္မက္ေတြ လက္ေတြ႕မျဖစ္မခ်င္း

ကဗ်ာဆရာက ေျပာတယ္
ေလးလံုးစပ္ကဗ်ာတစ္ပုဒ္ေလာက္နဲ႔
ဟတ္မထိေတာ့ဘူး တဲ့။

စကားလံုးဆန္းဆန္းေတြက
စမ္းတ၀ါး၀ါးနဲ႔ ဟုိ၀င္တိုက္ ဒီ၀င္တိုက္
ဘာလဲ.. ေမာလြန္းလို႔ ဟိုက္ေနသလား
ခဏ နားၿပီးတဲ့အခါ
အရင္အတိုင္းပဲ ဒုန္းစိုင္းသြားတာေပါ့။

ေရာက္.. ေရာက္လုၿပီလား
ေရာက္.. ေရာက္လုႏိုးလား
ေရာက္.. ေရာက္လုခင္လား
ေပ်ာက္.. ေပ်ာက္ေနတုန္းပဲ။

ဒီလိုနဲ႔ အိပ္မက္ေတြ
ေ၀း
လႊင့္
ကြယ္
ေပ်ာက္။

ကံၾကမၼာအလွည့္အေျပာင္းမွာ
ေမွာက္ထားတဲ့ ဖဲတစ္ခ်ပ္ကို လွန္လိုက္တဲ့အခါ
ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ထားသလို ဗလာမဲ ျဖစ္ေနၿပီး
ကံစမ္းမဲ တစ္ခုကို ဖြင့္လိုက္တဲ့အခါ
ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ထားသလို စပိတ္တစ္ ျဖစ္ေနခဲ့
ဟက္ဟက္ပက္ပက္ ရယ္လိုက္ပါ
သံပရာသီးေတြ ခ်ဳိၿပီး ပ်ားရည္ေတြ ခ်ဥ္သြားတဲ့အထိ
ဘ၀ဆိုတဲ့ အရသာကို ခံတြင္း မေတြ႕မိေသးဘူး။

ေခလြန္း
3:36 PM
Nov 3, 2008

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