Italy. Everybody Is Crazy For Obama
Day after day, Italian center-left and center-right supporters of the democratic candidate are increasing. So, the question is: to whom does Obama belong?
Italian-American Man Endorses Barack Obama
Why am I voting for Barack Obama? Because he's smart. And he's clearly more intelligent than McCain. In these tense times, we need the most intelligent person available to be president.
November 5, 2008
Election Madness: Obamarama
Photo P. Verdicchio
From Left to Right, Italian Reaction to Obama election touches well-known and predictable cultural norms.
Italian response to US elections brings forth interesting debates and views on race.
Obama. A Hope That I Had Kept Alive Inside Me
I am writing this as President-elect Barack Obama gives his victory speech and I can't help but feel that there has been something inside me that has finally been let out.
November 5, 2008
Blogging Obama
Laura E. Ruberto
Drawing of Barack Obama, by this blogger's five year old son
Passing impressions from California, written at midnight on Election Night.
November 5, 2008
Obama. A Hope That I Had Kept Alive Inside Me
I am writing this as President-elect Barack Obama gives his victory speech and I can't help but feel that there has been something inside me that has finally been let out.
Yes He Could! Americans Elected Barack Obama
"If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer".
November 4, 2008
Everybody Is Crazy For Obama
Day after day, Italian center-left and center-right supporters of the democratic candidate are increasing. So, the question is: to whom does Obama belong?
November 4, 2008
Sicily, Image and Reality
Getty Images
Change agents: Sicily's Rita Borsellino meets Fabio Messina, a Palermo anti-Mafia merchant
The recent New York visit by the island’s labor minister prompts some not so sunny thoughts
"Obama" Ends in a Vowel
Will Italian Americans vote for their closest co-ethnic in the Presidential race? Barack Obama is the only candidate whose last name ends in a vowel...
October 31, 2008
"Obama" ends in a Vowel
Jerry Krase
I didn't have handy an appropriate image of the nastily divisive United States Presidential campaign but a beautiful rainbow after a storm is always nice.
With the United States Presidential Election Campaign about to end, I am sure that we will be barraged in the mass and not so mass media by last minute appeals to ethnic, religious, and racial prejudices. This is my own personal appeal to the ethnic consciousness of Italian Americans to vote for their closest co-ethnic in the Presidential race. Barack Obama is the only candidate whose last name ends in a vowel.
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