More about the elections...

Hi!
Let’s going on talking about the elections. They are proceeding, both in the United States and in Italy. I noticed that the tone is changed here in Italy: the debate between Berlusconi and Veltroni is much more lively. On the contrary, in the United States the comparison between Obama and Hillary Clinton is more or less at the same level, even if there are still clashes.
Leaving his politically correct behaviour, Veltroni charges Berlusconi with running away from the comparison, he criticizes Berlusconi’s age and TV networks. Berlusconi’s reply to this is that Veltroni is a “recycled Stalinist” who talks nonsense.
After weeks of soft tones, I think that this change is due to the fact that there are only two weeks left to the elections and both leaders want to persuade the undecided voters. However, the two candidates’ main focus is on the question Alitalia; I think that it is surely an important matter, but both of them have to focus on the real problems of Italian people: poor salaries, low pensions, the high cost of everyday life. They talk about this topics but now Alitalia has been taken as a diversion to drive elsewhere people’s attention.
In the USA now the tendency is to attack the opponent’s advisers. Hillary criticized Obama because he didn’t dissociate from his pastor Jeremiah Wright, who made statements with racial background. Now there are comments on the ex general Merril McPeak, accused by the conservative media to have prejudices against Israel and its supporters.
The disputes are going on… We’ll see how they are going to end…!
Bye!