It is already Thursday which means only four days to the E day. What a relief. Specially when I have said I would not write anymore about the elections -short of something real big were to happen- and I am being so tempted after so many millions dissapearing on the air yesterday…. Read the rest of this entry »

Yesterday I said I was not going to write anything else about the elections until we knew who had become the new president. Well, this morning reading on line a Spanish newspaper I found an article that surprised me and which I thought it could be not true. Read the rest of this entry »

With one week to go, I am probably going to give myself a break and short of something extraordinary happening avoid writing anything else about the U.S. elections until we know who is going to be the next president. By now anything I can write all of you would have probably read in the printed media or seen on TV. In the meantime I hope the Bush administration is not trying to go out with a bang. Read the rest of this entry »

It would be nice to read good news but it is becoming more and more difficult. Just yesterday, Mohamed ElBaradei, the chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said that the number of reports of nuclear or radioactive material stolen around the world last year was “disturbingly high. Read the rest of this entry »

Election 2000 is something many people will remember. In my case, after several years of living abroad I arrived back in Palm Beach County just in time to vote. And vote I did using the infamous butterfly ballots with its hanging chads. Read the rest of this entry »

I think the Europeans were ‘burned” with the presidency of George W. Bush. In Europe, he has been one of the most disliked American presidents. So it is not strange that when election time came around and the two candidates the Europeans were presented with were Obama and McCain, many preferred Obama. Read the rest of this entry »

Eight days to go! Finally this incredible long campaign for the US presidency is arriving at its end. For me the best of it is that on the 5th of November we will be able to relax knowing that never mind who becomes president it would not be Bush any longer. Happy Crawford retirement!!! Read the rest of this entry »