'If it's a fight between McCain & Obama
I will cast my vote for McCain'
[Sitangshu Guha]
Looks like John McCain will be the next president of United States of America. Reason is simple; America is not ready for a black or a women president at this time. Al Gore made a blunder by not running for democratic ticket. But he also will have a chance for the next election, because McCain can't win next election. So, most probably democrats will occupy white house 2013. Usually, American voters don't give House & White House to the same party, so--.
Al Gore did not run and why? Is he committed to the Clintons? Or he wants to make sure 2012 is for him? If McCain wins this time he will surely not run re-election or if he runs he will loss. In both the parties even their own people are not happy with the candidates. Republicans did not knew McCain will be the winner of their party while Democrats wanted somebody else than a women or a black. Now no point of returning back, they have to accept their own candidates. Is this opportunity Mayor Bloomberg was looking for? Will he get in as an independent? Who knows!
House is now controlled by the Democrats, so White House may go to the Republicans? Is McCain a Republican? Well, he is. But he is not a conservative and is loved by a lot of Democrats & as well as liberals. So, his chance of winning will be more against either Obama or Hillary.
Our Bangladeshi people for some reason are in favor of Hillary Clinton and wished that she should be elected as president. Two main reasons I can assume are that, she once visited Bangladesh and people thinks she is in favor of Arabs rather than Israelis. Not far ago, she hugged Yaseer Arafat's wife Suha which was criticized by the Western world. Hillary loves power & herself, then her daughter and for power she can do anything. Bill & Hill are just partners helping each other for their political goal. For Bill, political part is over and he is getting old, so he needs her more than ever while Hillary is trying to use Bill's image, which unfortunately is not working that good. In New York Bill & Hill is popular and NY is not total America, our people has a wrong perception about Bill & Hill for that reason. Understanding that, our over smart friends are trying to favor Obama, because they are happy about his Muslim connections which he himself denied firmly.
Like Awami League Democrats talk nice, may have good plans but loses the election while on contrary Republicans knows the election mechanism and how to win. I remember in 2004 while election flavor was on top of everything I went to Paris. In a party with most people from Bangladesh & India wanted to know who will win the election. They expected me to say: 'Kerry'. But I said: 'Bush'. Most of them got angry, some argued with me. I tried to explain to them, but may be they thought that I was a fool or don't know anything. Actually I was writing every week for a local Bengali weekly on president election and just before going to Europe I met with one gentleman of hardcore Republicans who explained me how Bush's win was almost sure and I believed that. Unlike first term Bush's second term win was uncontroversial.
This time also as I guess the whole election game plan of the Republicans so far is going as experts' wished it. First part of the game is to defeat Hillary and help Obama win the democratic ticket. If this plan works, second part will be to defeat Obama. Defeating Obama will be easier than Hillary, because Obama is less experienced and he is of African origin. His Muslim connection will be an issue too. Obama is triumphing Hillary in South, unfortunately South will fail him in November. South is conservative and they want a president of their ideology. Neither McCain nor Obama is conservative but McCain is Republican and with decorated experience. Bush had already called upon his conservative base to support McCain and they also came forward to show that. For long time East is not a detrimental factor for president election and this time also it will not be different.
Surely, there will be multiple plans to defeat Obama and you never know what will come when there will be only two players, McCain & Obama. For McCain everything is open but for Obama, people may be surprised with new findings. Is digging is on now? Obama has a lot of advantages including his age and for McCain age will be his major disadvantage.
Nobody can say for sure what will be the final game and who will win because the ball will be in people's court. This is the beauty of this country, people takes the final decision, no matter who does what. Whole world will be looking forward to see the election outcome in November. If I have to take a decision between McCain & Obama I will cast my vote for McCain. Reason is simple, it is no matter for me or for Bangladesh, who becomes the president of the United States of America but McCain has an adopted daughter from Bangladesh and hence I will vote for him. In White House or in policy making there will have no influence on President McCain but in home little Brijit may remind him a poor country desperately needs help to find a way for democracy and free of militant Islamists.
Hey, you never know!
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