Al-Qaeda Leader Insult Obama in Web Video

In a video, Ayman Zawahiri–Osama bin Ladin no. 2–says the president-elect is ‘the direct opposite of honorable black Americans’ and says Obama, Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice are ‘house Negroes. Another early test to Obama’s mettle of coolness.

Can Obama Make History Twice?

Throughout his campaign, Obama has talked about defining moments — from his victory in Iowa to the day five grueling months and 53 contests later when he won enough delegates to claim the Democratic nomination. On that June night, he made history. On Tuesday night, he’ll find out if he can do it again.

Obama the Facebook President

If Obama wins on November 4 election day, he’ll be known in history as the first American president, indeed the first democratically elected president, who uses technology to the maximum to create the greatest political organisation ever recorded in living history. Can Indonesia’s presidential candidate–indeed any president/PM candidate around the world– follow Obama’s way?

Obama, Madrassa and Pesantren

Indonesian madrasah* gets five-minutes fame in the US media for the “wrong” reason: Senator Barack H. Obama, a hot presidential candidate from Democrat allegedly was educated in Indonesia’s madrasah during his childhood years in Indonesia along with his mother.

The news emanated from Insight Magazine, an American right-wing-stripe media owned by the same company as the Washington Times (not to be confused with the blue-stripe Washington Post).

The news then debunked by CNN as false. According to its Jakarta bureau, “Obama lived in Indonesia as a child, from 1967 to 1971, with his mother and stepfather and has acknowledged attending a Muslim school, but an aide said it was not a madrassa.”