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Ajith P. Perera, Chief Organiser, Bandaragama, UNP - අධිනීතිඥ අජිත් පී. පෙරේරා, ප්‍රධාන සංවිධායක, බණ්ඩාරගම, එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂය

SHE IS BACK! Hillary! Stop the attacks! Love, Obama Girl

Posted by Ajith on March 26, 2008

Amber Lee Ettinger, the star of the last year’s wildly popular online video “Obama girl,” is out with a new video this week that decries Hillary Clinton’s insistence on remaining in the presidential race.

The new video — titled “Hillary, stop the attacks!” — opens with a takeoff on Clinton’s now-famous “3 a.m.” ad, and quickly transitions to Ettinger addressing the New York Democrat head on.

“I know Obama’s gonna win it/but you’re sorta kind of stayin’ in it. I think sometimes in this campaign/You’ve got a crush on John McCain,” she sings.

“Can’t you see its hopeless? It’s become an Obama-nation. Is their any chance you’ll back off? So he’ll get that nomination,” she also says.

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Obama is back! Wins in Mississippi primary

Posted by Ajith on March 12, 2008

Barack Obama has beaten rival Hillary Clinton to win the Democratic primary election in the state of Mississippi.

Obama polled strongly among African-American voters, winning 59% of the vote to Mrs Clinton’s 39% with most of the votes counted.

The result is not decisive but boosts his lead in terms of delegates at the August convention where the party will choose its White House candidate.

The positions now stand at:

BARACK OBAMA: 1,579 delegates
Total states won: 25

HILLARY CLINTON: 1,473 delagates
Total states won: 16

Delegates needed to secure nomination: 2,025.
Source: AP at 1215 GMT 11 March

(News from news.bbc.co.uk and the video shows Obama’s historical speech in 2004 at Democratic National Convention)

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STAND FOR CHANGE: Barack Obama’s bizarre journey to change America and the world

Posted by Ajith on February 26, 2008

American and the world history are being created right now, by an incredible human being called Barack Obama.

Obama’s rise to top is unbelievable and unprecedented. A nation once so racist to force blacks to sit is segregated areas in busses and drink from separate taps will most probably preparing to elect their first black president at the end of this year. No, by no means the fight is over. Hillary Clinton and John McCain might not give up so easily, but for the man in the street the game seemed to be almost over.

What makes Obama different from many other politicians is how he wins trust. As he correctly says it is not a fight between young and old; male and female or white and black. It is a fight between present and future. Who will deliver the best future for America and the rest of the world? If the voters have trust Obama can do so, they would not mind his colour of skin or relative inexperience as a politician to lead the most powerful nation in the world.

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