I notice you didn’t have anything to say about my other points, which of course makes it much easier for you to refer to me as a sore loser.

This election, what was done along tribal lines, is not a model for Lebanon and I wouldn’t consider it a victory or achievement unless, as Ace said, you want more of the same.

“Country dictated by the God you worship”–indeed.

Count you in the crowd that believes all it will take to straighten out the bad guys is for Obama to give them one of his amazing speeches – as soon as he gets his teleprompter set up.

Somehow – I’m still not buying it. They will chew him up and spit him out.

Obama does a great job of running for office but he has never accomplished anything at all IN office – he is always looking forward to the next campaign.

Look for a new “stability” to come to Lebanon – it will look much like the old “stability”.

The religious makeup of Lebanon, and the middle east, is anything but encouraging. I am a Christian, and I would gladly vote for a Muslim president if I can be sure that his or her policies will not encroach on my rights for freedom, and free thought and action. The Muslim world as it stands today, and specifically in the so called “Arab world” is anything but encouraging. Form monarchies to dictatorships, none of these system has proved to have any tolerance for “non-Muslims” unless they obeyed the “Muslim” law of the land. So, with all due respect to you specifically as a “liberal” and a “tolerant” and “moderate” and “democratic” Muslim, you are but a tiny fraction in a sea of fanaticism, and relegious intolerance. Democracy should, shall, and would be our savior one day, but that day is far fetched, as long as the Arab systems around Lebanon maintain their Status Quo.

Throughout our history, we have learned that Lebanon is not an island, and will never be. We are a small country, with a diverse population. Throughout the history, there have been various figures that called for Lebanese nationalism. Until not so long ago, the Sunnis in Lebanon rejected the concept of Lebanon altogether, as well as Druze. Now, we are having a Shiite problem.

Before we put Lebanon ahead of our religion, and keep our religious views at home, and behind closed doors, we will never have a “proper democracy”.

On another note, and because of this “stupid and fragile” system of democracy that we have, it has enabled us to have to most liberal, literary, and artistic production in the whole Arab world combined. So, it has some advantage.

As I said, I would gladly vote for a president who will ensure security, protect my right as any democratic citizen in any democratic country enjoys, where I can party, and drink some Arak in Nabatiyyeh, or pray in a mosque in Kiserwan.

Listen, our system is imperfect, and we can only make it perfect through governance. A hundred years ago, black and women could note vote in the USA. They changed this through laws and governance, not through revolutions and a civil war. we have a long way to go, but we must walk the way of law. Right now, it seems that the prime minister has confiscated all the law making entities, and his men are beating other ministers bodyguards and consultants, and who knows who started it! We will probably not know.

Let’s start by correcting these small things, and maybe then we can start moving to more important issues.

For all I know, the post-Taef system is nothing more than a sham.
(no pun intended)

Our Lebanese democracy is a good starting point, and change should come by time and effort. It is only the lazy ones who want change to happen overnight, and violently. Because they have lazy brains, and lazy minds. The are not up to the challenges of governance.

This reply is a little bit of “the spur of the moment”,and not well structured, but you get the general idea.

Whether people voted against Bush or any other reason is only for political pundits to spin…There’s always reasons why people chose one over another. Do not forget that Obama had a two year gruelling campaign that was much more bruising than the past three months. I can see the maturation of the American democracy and its people. This is pivotal in the evolution of the society in the USA.
We can all wish that Lebanon will mirror the same system…but alas in my humble opinion that will not be accomplished in our lifetime UNLESS there’s a miraculous shift in the current “positioning” of two negatives in the region: Syria and Iran. How can we expect any changes in Hizb’s and others’ mentality if their “sugar daddies” are authocratic or theocratic brutal regimes?

Sore loser, hanan? Complete information was collected from contributors:

https://donate.barackobama.com/page/contribute/dnc08standardnd?source=mainnav

One problem occurred…two brothers in Gaza were contributing funds illegally. With more than 3 million contributing to Obama’s campaign some time elapsed before the account was read and the money refunded. The server should have been setup to reject emails from .ga

If you wouldn’t mind opinion of outsider, work on changing Lebanese Constitution first. Throw each and every mention or slightest hint of sectarianism. Then start looking for Obama.

I’m not saying McCain was the perfect candidate–none ever is. But too many people are focusing on Obama’s blackness and completely disregarding his policies and actions as if only the former is what makes him so great for the country.

By the way, he had help from Republican stupidity in their so-called “slaying,” (no I’m not talking about Palin) and Hillary getting all weepy didn’t help. Americans don’t want a president who is going to cry when things get tough. And during the primaries he relied on cheating as well. Hillary should have been the candidate.

2) The problem in Lebanon is not that there is no Obama to lead the crowd, it’s that the Lebanese people are sheep who can be lead by any corrupt bastard. The fascist notion that a single superior politician as a supreme leader of the country would solve all of your problems what produced Aoun, Nasrallah, Hariri, Geagea and other lords that you are now stuck with.

Maybe the better question, however, is … do we WANT our own Obama ?

as posted on Beiruti’s blog:
the father of Emmanuel Rahm said:
“Obviously he will influence the president to be pro-Israel. Why wouldn’t he be? What is he, an Arab? He’s not going to clean the floors of the White House.”

we are going to have soon a new conflict in the middle east …
the arabs choosed once again the bad horse as we are saying in a expression in french…

The U.S. black population is a minority group, about 13 percent of the population. Although many blacks have been elected to political offices, it was not the black population that ensured those elections. In fact, a large percent of blacks in the U.S. population were apathetic and had not even registered to vote or participated in any elections until Obama chose to run for President. When Obama began to win primary elections in various states, more of our black population began to register and then vote, which augmented the possibility that for the first time in American history a black man might be elected to the highest office in the United States.

As American media and blogs demonstrated during the election campaigns, both black supremacists and white supremacists reared their ugly heads, but most Americans ignored those claims. And rightfully so—whether creed or race based surely such bigots and hypocrites are the bastard sons of mankind. Many blacks who had lived their lives as if victims, and those who were the imagined masters, fell aside in this historic election as the defeated. Vindications were many as were the tears of joy, for this election was an American cultural revolution without a single shot fired.

With creed-based tribalism enforced in the Lebanese Constitution, it should be clear that Lebanon is a land far far away from the United States of America. Freedom bells will not ring in the land of the cedars until Lebanese set tribalism aside in Constitutional amendments and all the laws of the land treat all citizens as equals. And that must occur house by house, from within.