Obama’s Memoir Dreams from My Father

I’ve just purchased President-elect Obama memoir’s Dreams from my Father from amazon.com along with Tariq Ramadan’s Radical Reform: Islamic Ethics and Liberation. As for Obama’s autobiography, actually it’s been translated into Bahasa Indonesia. But reading a translation book often dissappoint me. So many good and strong expression lost in translation.

Obama Will Use YouTube for Weekly Presidential Address

President-elect Barack Obama plans to tape a weekly address not just for radio listeners, as presidents have for years, but for YouTube Internet viewers, too. Is it possible to implement in Indonesia? I don’t think so given the fact that only 10 percent of Indonesian have access to internet. I’am waiting for the moment when internet is almost free for all Indonesian.

The Hackers of Obama and McCain’s Website Came from China

US government cyber experts suspect that an attack on the Obama and McCain campaign computer networks this summer originated from China, according to a US official

Politics and Power of Internet

Obama’s creative use of the Internet played a huge role in making him president elect, former U.S. Vice President Al Gore said Friday. “It couldn’t have happened without the Web,” Gore said

Obama’s Win from Marketing Perspective

Obama’s win from marketing perspective. Eight points a politician-wanna-be needs to know from a Harvard marketing guru.

Islam and Obama

For the past few months, not a day went by without the words “Muslim” and “Obama” being mentioned in the same sentence. Newsweek has an interesting report on Islam and Muslims in America and Obama.

Barack Obama Biography

1959
Barack Obama’s father, Barack Obama Sr. is awarded scholarship from an American program offering Western educational opportunities. Age 23, Barack Obama Sr. leaves behind his pregnant wife, Kezia, and son. He arrives in US to study math and economics at the University of Hawaii, Honolulu, as the first African student there.

1961
-February 2: Barack Obama Sr., 25, marries 18-year-old Ann Dunham, a white American he meets in a Russian-language class. The ceremony takes place at Maui where Ann Dunham is already three months pregnant with Barack Obama, Jr. She is unaware of Barack Obama Sr.’s first wife. The couple settles in Honolulu.
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President Barack Hussein Obama

Obama’s win is expected as all polls and surveys went towards him. All political pundits accross the board think so. It’s nevertheless surprising to see it in reality. No one is sure that it’ll be real. In the meantime, McCain’s concession speech was appreciated by many. The graceful demanour by the loser also should be emulated by our candidates here in Indonesia. Graceful in defeat and magnanimous in victory.

Live Video Streams US Election Result 2008

Watch live streaming video via MSNBC LIVE STREAMING

In case you stay outside America and want to watch a live coverage of US election 2008 result here’s a live streaming video from MSNBC. Watch it for free.

CBS News Election Widget

Have a look at MSNBC’s electoral voting map