Once again the Golf World has a true champion.
After a battle of wits and a nineteen hole playoff, Tiger Woods held out to maintain his winning round;he had managed to continue his unprecedented record of never losing a Tournament when leading the field.
And all this with a bung knee.
Barack Obama had that same battle.
Leading the field, and then falling behind, but battling a determined opposition to finally take the trophy.
Personally, my preference was firmly for Obama.
Although 10,000 miles away in my Australian homeland, I felt that Barack was the right person for the job at this point in history.
Although it is history now, one needs to comment on that "bitter" dispute that erupted during the campaign.
It seems to have been forgotten since it is now plainly academic.
It was the way the tigers in his own Democrat Party sprung with claws out.
Just what the commotion was about I fail to understand.
Why wouldn't people be "bitter"? The Macquarie Dictionary describes "bitter" as " filled with sour feeling, resentful".
Why shouldn't they be? Job losses, home losses, corporate collapses, obscene "remunerations" to corporate executives, etc.
That word "bitter" was seen to be heard in a private conversation.
How they pounced! Maybe there was a lot at stake, but, hey, someone needs to take a step back and take a reality check.
Here, in Australia there is, no doubt, bitterness all around.
Job losses as factories close and move to China, the rapid rise in housing prices and rent, the rapid rise in interest rates (approaching 10%) and general cynicism of governments.
I and the vast majority of my fellow Aussies were bitter when one of the nation's largest banks,of its own volition, raised interest rates on our "Memorial Day",Anzac Day April 25 - a national day of remembrance- for that bank a day of shame.
Even the governemt stressed sour disapproval of that event.
I met a leading Research scientist during the last year of the previous governemt's reign who expressed bitterness towards that government's lack of concern for the country's rapid descent (in relation to % of Government funding) from a market leader in research and development to near the bottom of the list on the O.
E.
C.
D.
calendar.
I've met many fellow country men and women bitter about having to trade off job security with part time or contract employment - the largest per population in the O.
E.
C.
D.
- a 300% growth since 1996.
With all the hype and the hundreds of millions of dollars that poured into this Presidential campaign, one must be blind not to see the bitterness in their own country.
Obama has shown that he has mixed with the grassroots of the Nation.
He is the right one for the job.
May the Nation see fit to lead him to the White House in November.
After a battle of wits and a nineteen hole playoff, Tiger Woods held out to maintain his winning round;he had managed to continue his unprecedented record of never losing a Tournament when leading the field.
And all this with a bung knee.
Barack Obama had that same battle.
Leading the field, and then falling behind, but battling a determined opposition to finally take the trophy.
Personally, my preference was firmly for Obama.
Although 10,000 miles away in my Australian homeland, I felt that Barack was the right person for the job at this point in history.
Although it is history now, one needs to comment on that "bitter" dispute that erupted during the campaign.
It seems to have been forgotten since it is now plainly academic.
It was the way the tigers in his own Democrat Party sprung with claws out.
Just what the commotion was about I fail to understand.
Why wouldn't people be "bitter"? The Macquarie Dictionary describes "bitter" as " filled with sour feeling, resentful".
Why shouldn't they be? Job losses, home losses, corporate collapses, obscene "remunerations" to corporate executives, etc.
That word "bitter" was seen to be heard in a private conversation.
How they pounced! Maybe there was a lot at stake, but, hey, someone needs to take a step back and take a reality check.
Here, in Australia there is, no doubt, bitterness all around.
Job losses as factories close and move to China, the rapid rise in housing prices and rent, the rapid rise in interest rates (approaching 10%) and general cynicism of governments.
I and the vast majority of my fellow Aussies were bitter when one of the nation's largest banks,of its own volition, raised interest rates on our "Memorial Day",Anzac Day April 25 - a national day of remembrance- for that bank a day of shame.
Even the governemt stressed sour disapproval of that event.
I met a leading Research scientist during the last year of the previous governemt's reign who expressed bitterness towards that government's lack of concern for the country's rapid descent (in relation to % of Government funding) from a market leader in research and development to near the bottom of the list on the O.
E.
C.
D.
calendar.
I've met many fellow country men and women bitter about having to trade off job security with part time or contract employment - the largest per population in the O.
E.
C.
D.
- a 300% growth since 1996.
With all the hype and the hundreds of millions of dollars that poured into this Presidential campaign, one must be blind not to see the bitterness in their own country.
Obama has shown that he has mixed with the grassroots of the Nation.
He is the right one for the job.
May the Nation see fit to lead him to the White House in November.