Quotes of the Week - July 15, 2008:
"You are my lord, you're my darling, you're my orgy, my charming
prince." -- Carla Bruni-Sarkozy's tribute to husband, Nicholas
Sarkozy, president of France.
"Barack, he's talking down to black people. I want to cut his nuts
off." -- Jesse Jackson, US Democrat and civil rights activist,
about his party's presidential candidate Barack Obama.
"Many things that happened in the jungle we have to leave in the
jungle." -- Former hostage Ingrid Betancourt, refuses to discuss
certain details about her six years of captivity in jungles of Colombia.
"Europe is a family of 27 nations, we can't leave anyone behind."
-- Nicolas Sarkozy, French President, urging European Parliament to
speed negotiations over Lisbon Treaty.
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June 11, 2008: Obama makes history as he seals US Democratic presidential
nomination
America, this is our moment. This is our time. Our time to turn
the page of the policies of the past.
With this victory announcement Barack Obama claimed the Democratic
presidential nomination, and made history by becoming the first black
dandidate to lead a major US party into a White House race.
His win over party opponent Hillary Clinton came after a tough marathon
battle, which often turned personal and bitter and fractured the Democratic
party.
The significance of the Obama victory was recognized worldside. From
the far side of the atlantic Sunday Times writer Andrew Sullivan
glowed in last Sunday's issue: "I wonder if Americans have yet
fully absorbed what they have done. Thjis past week - 41 years after
the Supreme Court struck down the last bans on interracial marriage
and only 40 years after Martin Luthor King Jr was assassinated - a
black man became the favorite to be the next president of the United
States."
To add further history to the occasion, and with remarkable timing,
Obama is due to deliver his convention acceptance speech 45 years
to the day after King made his famous "I have a dream" speech.
Between now and that convention on August 25-28, the Democrats will
be concentrating their efforts of rebuilding party unity and a divisive
campaign, and concentrating their fire on Republican candidate John
McCain.
In his winning speech, the 46-year-old rookie from Illinois Obama
was gracious in victory to his party opponent Hillary Clinton, a tough
and seasoned politician whose dreams of becoming the first woman president
were shattered.
He praised her courage and leadership: "Senator Hillary Clinton
has made history in this campaign not just because she's a woman who
has done what no woman has done before, but because she's a leader
who inspires millions of Americans with her strength, her courage,
and her commitment to the causes that brought us here tonight."
Equally the 60-year-old Senator Clinton was gracious in defeat, and
pledged her full support of Obama.
Announcing that she was quitting the race for the presidency, she
said: "I congratulate him on the victory he has won and the extraordinary
race he has run. I endorse him, and throw my full support behind him.
And I ask all of you to join me in working as hard for Barack Obama
as you have for me...So today, I am standing with Senator Obama to
say: Yes we can...We will make history together as we write the next
chapter in Americas story."
With Clinton despatched, Obama is now turning his full attention on
the man Republicans hope to put in the White House, 71-year old war
hero John McCain.
In a taste of what is to come during the five-month fight for the
presidency ahead, Obama cast the Arizona senator as a carbon copy
of President George W. Bush, especially in his support of the war
in Iraq.
While acknowledging that McCain had served his country heroically,
he accused him of having stood with George Bush 95% of the time in
the Senate, and offering four more years of failed Bush economic policies.