19 March 2008

Next up: HOPE for Kuwait

If anyone's paying attention...Hope is a good campaign slogan.

Future candidate if you're reading this...saying this to me will get you my vote...(in so many words):
This was one of the tasks we set forth at the beginning of this campaign - to continue the long march of those who came before us, a march for a more just, more equal, more free, more caring and more prosperous America(read:Kuwait). I chose to run for the presidency(read: parliament) at this moment in history because I believe deeply that we cannot solve the challenges of our time unless we solve them together - unless we perfect our union by understanding that we may have different stories, but we hold common hopes; that we may not look the same and we may not have come from the same place, but we all want to move in the same direction - towards a better future for of children and our grandchildren.


In case you missed it, that was part of Barack Obama's speech on race he made in Pennsylvania yesterday.(Nerd alert: 38 minutes of powerful themes and eloquent delivery.)



His speeches are inspirational, healing in a way. I'd like to hear that here.

Call it whatever you want: political maturity. Theatrics. Speech writing. Flag-filled backgrounds. Impressive Orators. Well-groomed people. Cheesy sound bytes. I want it here.

I'm sick of the childish antics of the cabinet, our juvenile representatives and our moronic voters.
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In other news, on the other side of the globe, yesterday I bought mascara. My choices were a "blacker black" and regular old black; who knew black came in "light" and "dark"?! Good ol'black...you'll always be black enough for me. (And yes my lashes are as important as the American election/Kuwaiti political mess if not more.)

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

I will only comment on the mascara.. Black Out Dior... yummy!!

eshda3wa said...

i have yet to hear anything remotely intellectual let alone inspirational from our candidates.

ofcourse ur eyelashes are more important

eshfaydeenah feeh hal parliament ballah!

Moniker said...

normal black has a bluish tone when in bright light, where as blacker black doesn't :D (lol, ok. to be honest, i don't know if thats true, but it sounded good in my head :|)

as for Barack, i love him :D
but have yet to watch that speech.

Anonymous said...

Totally in love with ur writing style!

The great politicians (if u could call them that) of kuwait. Ma i3arfoon koo3hum min boo3hum. Wain ayam ili idish il majlis kan laah haybah, al7een kil 7wair oo zwair 9ar na2eb, oo shaghleta i6ali3 wa96a 7ag flan oo 3ilan. I don't want na2eb khadamat, yimkin ifeedni ib ONE thing bas ikharib 3ala bajee il deera.

And its not only mascra that comes in different blacks, eyeliner too!

G said...

hamitaf- that'll be my next buy.

eshda3wa- good point :D

moniker- for real?! It sounds like it could be true. Let's start that rumor and hope it'll make it to snopes-infamy level...

boredq80- (blushing) mashkoora ba3ad 3omri. min thooo8ich. O'sa7 ilsanich...there's no point in someone giving you a hand when he's digging a hole underneath you at the same time.

Black is black people! Black is the absence of color...how can it be more absent..?!!!