Reference: A hope named Obama, Bangkok Post, November 1, 2008

The oped piece on the US presidential election first paints George Bush as the root of all the evil in the world and gushes effussively about Obama as the coming messiah who will deliver the world from evil (A hope named Obama, Bangkok Post, November 1, 2008); and immediately thereafter recants saying that it is not George Bush but the "political and economic establishment" in America that is the root of all evil in the world and that "one must not succumb to irrational hopes" or "entertain illusions" with respect to Obama. To that I would like to add that one must not write opinion pieces until one actually has an opinion.

Cha-am Jamal

Thailand