The 2008 presidential elections in the United States have become quite the soap opera. Between Obama's acceptance speech before 80,000 people in Mile High Stadium and now McCain's Vice Presidential candidate, its hard to guess whats going to happen in the next episode. Most interesting is a Chilean's view on this whole political process. I have been asked too many times, why are they still campaigning? Why has this been going on for so long? Many people thought that when Obama beat out Hilary, that Obama was then going to be the president, little did they realize that that was just one small part of our election process. Now with all the media spin around Sarah Palin, which even makes nightly news here in Chile, people are just laughing. It seems that its ridiculous to a Chilean that in the US we would have a woman as a VP candidate who has a 17 year old pregnant daughter (and... out of wedlock!... gasp) and a woman who supposedly had a DUI back in the day, and she was a beauty queen on top of it.
Since I am from the US, but have not lived there for more than two years, its hard for me to determine if the whole thing is ridiculous, or if the Chileans are being ridiculous. But what I do know, is that this year the whole political process in the US has turned into a circus show.
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Since Bachelet is a single atheist mom you'd think the Chileans would be a little less surprised!
politics in the US have been a circus show for as long as I can remember and the mass media has a lot to do with it.
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