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Sri Lanka: Not Obama

Monday, February 18th, 2008 @ 19:11 UTC

by Neha Viswanathan

Countries:: Sri Lanka, U.S.A.
Topics:: Elections, International Relations

Deane's Dimension from Sri Lanka on why rooting for Obama is all fine, but why one really needs to look at his foreign and economic policy.

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Siva

The author is absolutely correct, people are simply captivated by him. Have they even looked whether he has experience running a small coffee shop, before making him president?..

americans..

# 2008-03-3 at 18:22 pm

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Atula

Whoever who does not meddle and try to take advantage of situations in smaller and poor nations should be supported. Also whoever who is not supporting terrorism and think if you have some crazy cause you can fight for it should not be a president of a country like America who can influence other countries.

# 2008-03-4 at 4:36 am

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