The New Nation - Internet Edition

We hope Barack Obama will be the next US president and a blessing to the world. Former US Vice President and Presidential candidate Al Gore has endorsed Barack Obama.It is very significant as Al Gore is a person of great intellect, he opposed the war in Iraq, is concerned about global warming and climate change, he is anxious about the future of this planetand trying his best to do something. He won the Nobel Peace Prize and the Oscar! How different the world would have been if he had become the president of US, which has been snatched away from him.

I congratulated Barack Obama for becoming the Democratic Presidential nominee but his speech at the AIPAC disappointed me very much. But I hope that as he is a person of great intelligence, he will act wisely if he becomes the president of America. The whole world is looking up to him to see the change he is advocating. We hope Obama will follow the footsteps of Al Gore, do everything in his power to bring peace and stability to this world, try to bring back the good will towards America which has been lost during the last eight years, make friends not enemies all over the world by his foreign policy, so that again people will look up to America with reverence.

Nur Jahan

Chittagong

It is now a buzz word in our political arena. Everybody advocates it but anyboy hardly practice it in deeds and spirit.

All and sundry demand that there should be a 'level playing field' for all the stakeholders -- be that a political contestant or a public examination candidate.

But in reality some ones get more prefered or favoured treatment than their counter mates. For example, take the case of medical care of the convicted prisoners or persons detained in the jails. One does not need to be a philosopher or a rocket scientist to understand the inequalities of priorities that are practiced in this regard.

Conventional wisdom suggests not to believe in all high sounding phrases because they do not tell the truth always that prevail on the field situation.

Abu Musa Miah

Lalbagh, Dhaka