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NB: at the time of publishing this note Barack Obama has been declared President-elect of the US. Also, Luis Fortuño became governor-elect of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. jrr As we get close to election day we notice an increasing hostility towards Barack Obama and the Democratic Party. It is more evident and nasty towards the democratic presidential candidate, branding him - of all labels - a socialist. For lack of a better word, this is just plain absurd. Read this exceptional article by Adam Serwer in The American Prospect . As annoying and unfair as I find this it doesn't bother me as much as it concerns me (check out this article ). Living in Puerto Rico, were political intolerance in the discussion of the simplest of issues is disturbingly normal (a practice, by the way, instituted by pro-statehood activists in the second half of the 1990s only to find it continued by certain elements of the pro-commonwealth camp in the first four years of the 21st Century, and also - a...

The article titled 'Making America Stupid', tells us about conservatives' obsession with the cultural wedge they're driving on the issues in this presidential campaign. Even on something as vital as energy policy and how they trivialize to the chant of drill baby drill! Read this article and reflect on its analysis Comments on it and other posts are welcome.

Read this article by New York Times' Columnist Thomas Friedman - Author of 'From Beirut to Jerusalem' (Anchor Books, 1989). It is a reminder of how unilateral action by the United States can affect us all. It also speaks of deep interconnections between politics and economics and how dependent we are of one another. Some excerpts, "Sarah Palin won’t have to worry that she doesn’t know what the Bush doctrine is. No one really knew what it meant. But it had something to do with the unilateral exercise of American power, and the next president’s ability to act unilaterally on anything other than vital national security issues is going to be reduced. As the old saying goes: He who has the gold makes the rules. Well, we no longer have as much gold, and until we get some, we will have to pay more heed to the rules of those who lend us theirs." "There was a lot of talk after Russia invaded Georgia that globalization was over and we were seeing the return of “histor...