HBO’s Recount: Democracy at work, democracy at its worst
by Ednathan Thadeu Andrada
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I was looking forward to the HBO original movie ‘Recount’, a film about the controversial 2000 US presidential elections. The film starred academy award winner Kevin Spacey as a Democratic Party campaign manager. For political and history junkies, this film is indeed a must-see.
As events would tell, George W. Bush eventually won the presidency against Al Gore, but not without a bitter fight that almost placed America in a leadership crisis never seen before. The movie began with the election in progress and the confusion among television networks on which candidate did win Florida. Then Vice President Gore was forced to retract his concession to then Texas Gov. Bush upon learning that the Florida tally might have been flawed.
This resulted to a recount that led to a can of worms being opened regarding the manner of how the elections were conducted. Allegations of mass disenfranchisement of voters and the medieval-like electoral process exposed cracks in America’s once –mighty reputation as the role model in holding free and fair elections.
Elections in the Philippines has always been scrutinized for being violent and laden with cheating. Since democracy was restored in 1986, all but one presidential election have not escaped the opinions of many that the result may have gone the other way if no deliberate attempt to sway it was placed. As the Gloria Arroyo experience has shown, the price of having any question to the legitimacy of a sitting president that has not been sufficiently brought into closure can be expensive.
Busby SEO Test and Wise Disk Cleaner 3.7.4.127
I am totally lost in the top 100 of the Busby SEO Test competition. This is because I had not updated my blog 4 for days. On that 4 days my blog don’t have any post about the busby seo test competition. I was in the province to celebrate the All saints day. hehehehe, i need to have more post, more updates about the contest so that i will be back in the top 100. Anyway, I have something new for your today. Are you familiar with Wise Disk Cleaner? wise disk cleaner is amiable, firm and painless to use application expanded to crazed up disk space by removing trash files that are no longer used by any software on our system. Even the inexperienced user can smoothly remove junk files with this software. Read more here
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It is time for the Filipino audience to be educated about music. No offense f or one hit wonders and other mainstream acts who made it big because they leaned towards being a fad rather than a mark of real music for the globe to appreciate for multiple generations.
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Cool Sexy Jazz 2
The Philippines’ no. 1 Smooth Jazz series is back with more gems on COOL SEXY JAZZ 2. The ultimate smooth jazz playlist best-seller, Cool Sexy Jazz 2, contains 18 tracks of superb musical pieces delivered on a silver jazz platter.
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Redhorse Muziklaban 2008 Updates
This year is the 10th year of Philippines’ biggest rock challenge–- Redhorse Muziklaban. At this time, bands who are participating in this year’s event is getting more nervous as they get into the semi-finals round until the competition gets tougher at the grand finals happening on November 29 at Marikina Sports Complex.
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The Album to Make Your Christmas Sexier and Cooler
Christmas is few weeks away from now. Food, parties, gifts, decors, greeting cards and anything else will just be all around us considering that Christmas is near. Well, aside from those, christmas carols or songs makes the holiday spirit much intense.
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