Obama mania…
Posted on Tuesday, January 20, 2009 at 5:43pm
7 responses
I don’t have time to do blogging justice today. I’ve got to scuttle off to an event which I am rather nervous about as organisers have said that they want me to translate words from old Welsh ( gwenhwyseg) in to modern day Welsh. I don’t think that this can be to show that politicians have other interests, as I have never claimed to be a Welsh language specialist! But there we are, it will be an experience…. I’ve done a vlog which is on my youtube site, but the sun is in my eyes, so its not the best one I’ve ever done. Feel free to take a look at it anyway.
I’ve just been watching Obama’s inauguration. I didn’t catch the beginning but he’s certainly an inspiring speaker. Oh to have so many turn up to political events in Wales! I truly hope that he can be the change that Americans are so desperately crying out for after the disastrous Bush administration. An historical day it is, and the expectations are high for Obama to deliver- not only to save the American economy, but the World’s also..Now where have I heard that before?!
In the Assembly today we had a statement on open cast mining, and the implementation of 500 meter buffer zones- this has been Plaid Cymru policy for a while, and so I welcome the announcement. So too do I welcome the health impact assessments for open cast mining developments. I hope we can monitor its implementation, although I would prefer that no opencast mining took place at all.
I’ll have a few things to blog about tomorrow- I wanted to comment on the fact that MPs may be potentially exempt from releaseing their expenses to the public. One word comes to mind- hypocrisy. How can the government justify spending thousands of pounds to develop ID cards, keep thousands of innocent people’s information on the DNA database, when they refuse to be open and accountable themselves? Disgraceful.
I will also be following very closely who will be voting FOR the Freedom of Information (Parliamentary) Order 2009…there have been nearly 5000 friends supporting the Group opposing this…have you joined. I understand the Tories will abstain so the only ones who will probably oppose it are Lib Dems, Plaid, SNP etc.
The 5000 supporters are on Facebook!!
Ga’ i ofyn ble mae’r fideo ar YouTube? (Y diweddaraf rwy’n gallu ffeindio wrth deipio’ch enw i mewn yw un a recordiwyd ryw fis yn ôl). Diolch!
I hope they are serious about Opencast working and the health impact, because where I live we are practicaly surounded by them with more in the planning process. Plus we are going to be surounded by Windfarms.
A beautiful part of wales is being completely destroyed.
well he has already signed an order ending the military ‘trials’s at guantanamo bay – much to the apparent chagrin of dick cheney
So so far so good!
Yeah, good luck to Barack, he’ll need it.
I wish we could rouse that level of political excitement in Wales though… a referendum should bring people out in such numbers, but somehow I doubt it will unless we put away the sweetie-jars and start inspiring people.
we shouldnt forget that the wave of excitement you rightly speak of has been roused because obama unashamedly campaigned as a ‘left’ idealist, challenging the domoinant neo-liberal economic agenda that has dominated politics in the us (and the uk) for last 25 years!
He has rightly stated that it that has been this unadultearted devotion to the free market that has created the terrifying economic situation we see all around us!
If you can campaign from the ‘left’ and win in the US then you can campaign from the left and win anywherre – wales included!