Obama’s Victory Speech
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This is the 200th post on kkomp.com – I know; only 200! It seems like I’ve been blogging a lifetime, even though it’s only a few months at date of publication. What better way to celebrate this than to show the victory speech of President Elect Obama; and quite a speech it was too. Among other things he promised to get scientists and intellectuals together to develop technologies that would free the USA from the tyranny of oil. That was a very positive promise. If he delivers it could lead to a new technological revolution, utilising cleaner and greener ways to generate energy that aren’t reliant on fossil fuels such as oil. This would be a massive step in reducing greenhouse emissions and can only be good for the environment. If he can lead the world in a global utilisation of these new greener cleaner technologies it will be a great bonus, and our planet will be a pollution-free place yet again. It won’t, however, make him popular with the oil-barons and those who have become extremely rich from the oil industry. The middle-east with its massive underground supplies of oil won’t be happy bunnies about it. Even Texas with its oil-wells will have to change tack and find another way of making a living from the available resources. He also promised to end the war in Iraq. That pointless war that was engineered by George Bush, assisted by the lies told by Tony Blair to the British people, has cost many thousands of people their lives needlessly. It was probably true that Saddam Hussein had to go; but not in an endless tide of sorrow and bloodshed while Bush pursued his objective of controlling the area’s oil wealth. Yes I truly believe that the motivation behind the attack was purely financial on the part of Bush, and to a certain extent of Blair also. Obama promises change: He promises healthcare for the American people: Affordable healthcare for everyone; young, old, black, white, gay, straight, Republican and Democrat alike. He promises education, recovery, economic enhancement, technological achievement. McCain, on the other hand, could only promise 4 more years of Bush strategy. The American people wanted change rather than stagnation. Let’s hope Obama delivers. I leave you with the victory speech of President Elect of the United States of America; Barack Obama:-
Congratulations Barack Obama: The next President of the United States. (Only 200 blog posts eh? It’s time to get the proverbial finger out.) rectangle bottom —————————- |
Politico-geek
| An intellectual geek, self-confessed nerd, soon-to-be online-marketing-success-story, professional blogger and family man; David Risley could quite easily be described as Tampa’s “Mr Tech”.
“David Risley is an internet entrepreneur and professional technology blogger. With about 10 years of experience in this field, David has a solid and practical understanding of the web and what works. He is the founder and President of PC Media, Inc., a Tampa-Bay based company active in internet media publishing. |
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| Recently, in an entry posted 15th July 2008 to be exact, he posted what appears to be a one-off foray into politics. http://www.davidrisley.com/2008/07/15/bloggers-for-obama-lemmings-for-something-shiny/
Using his excellent flowingly-articulate writing-style he managed to keep the coverage to as level a playing-field as possible, showing very little if any of his personal political preference, yet still succeeding in giving the mass-ranks of pro-Obama bloggers a flea in the ear for their one-sided biased coverage of Barack Obama’s political campaign.
Did David really keep the playing field level though, and did he, a professional tech blogger, inadvertently take a step into territory where the nerd-angels fear to tread? His second paragraph starts off:”We’re in the election season and that means we’re seeing lots of politics online. Since I follow social media, I can clearly [tell] which of the candidates seems to be the favorite of the blogosphere: Barack Obama.” |
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| OK so much for proof-reading; but ignoring an honest accidental mistake in leaving a single word out; does the above indicate any political preference or bias? It could be loosely construed if this passage is taken by itself ignoring the rest of the article that by his mention only of Obama he sets a biased tone for the underlying theme.
However in reality we have to take the post as a whole and analyse the bigger picture.Further down he shows a more balanced approach when inculcating both candidates. : He states:”I have no doubt Barack Obama is a good man. I have no reason not to like him. But, when I see bloggers so blindly vouch for the guy, and so eagerly blame Bush for anything and everything and find every possible fault in John McCain…” Is this really balanced though, or does it have a supportive slant for McCain? By itself perhaps; although once again we must look at the bigger picture. Let’s do just that from a statistical point of view:- Mentioning of Candidates Obama: 7 mentions McCain: 1 mention Can any conclusion be drawn from this? I wouldn’t say so despite the repeated mentions of Obama: After all; that is part of the overall theme: Bloggers’ documentation of Obama’s campaign in exclusion of and to the detriment of, McCain’s.
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| Overall it appears that David Risley has done an extremely good job of maintaining a viewpoint of neutrality despite his political convictions while covering this topic: An achievement which is rather commendable.What are David Risley’s political convictions? I have no idea honestly; and even if I did know this, the fact that I revealed them in this article of mine would lead to a distortedly-biased view of his words by the readers.
He concludes with the words:”I’m not a political blogger and I’m not going to start. I follow tech, not politics. But, as a professional blogger who wants to see blogging recognized as the profession it is, I do not want to see bloggers as a whole turn into blind lapdogs for the latest shiny political figure…”
- All-in-all a quick dip into the edges of the political quagmire out of partial-necessity using the correct safety-harness and coming out completely unscathed. This demonstrates resilience and the mark of a talented writer: There aren’t a lot of bloggers out there that could even do this; let alone in such a manner. If I were running a “Blogger of the Month Award” then I feel that this post would be a very strong front runner at this time, and could easily end up winning first prize. |
