{"id":60634,"date":"2016-11-09T20:59:21","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T02:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=60634"},"modified":"2016-11-09T12:17:42","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T19:17:42","slug":"race-to-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/11\/09\/race-to-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Race to White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"divtagdefaultwrapper\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"font-family: Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div id=\"divtagdefaultwrapper\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"font-family: Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">\n<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>P.A.Samaraweera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>During the last 18 months there was a bruising and hard fought contest between Hillary Clinton (HC) and Donald Trump (DT) for the post of US \u00a0President. Apart from the US, the whole world eagerly watched the outcome as the US President is supposed to occupy the most powerful seat in world politics\u00a0. According to the US media and polls, the favourite was HC. The results of the 3 debates were also in her favour. Political analysts as well predicted a win for HC. This was probably because DT appears to be an<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">\u00a0unusual<\/span>\u00a0character. Some\u00a0claimed him to be an\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">eccentric as he is outspoken<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>But when election results trickled, pollsters were dismayed. Their predictions had gone awry.\u00a0\u00a0In a historic victory, DT had become President elect. This is remarkable because he has no political experience, whereas HC had been in politics for nearly 30 years.The people who were disillusioned with main stream politics supported DT. Further, HC had been The US Secretary of State supporting some of Obama&#8217;s\u00a0unpopular policies. DT in his election campaign had\u00a0repeatedly said that under him the US will not \u00a0be the policeman of the world. Hope he stick to this. Because the US created unnecessary problems in the world by pursuing this role.<\/p>\n<p>Back in Sri Lanka, some Tamils led by NPC council members Sivalingam and Ananthi Sasitharan had offered prayers at a famous Hindu Temple in the North for HC&#8217;s victory and broken 1008 coconuts. Obviously, they have been backed by the Tamil diaspora. During the 2008 Presidential elections the LTTE rump funded HC. During the war, she blocked the IMF agreed assistance to Sri Lanka. After the war, she visited the Chief Minister of Nadu to show her solidarity with the Tamil diaspora. So it is a big relief that Hilary Clinton got defeated and Donald Trump became President elect.<\/p>\n<p>P.A.Samaraweera<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>P.A.Samaraweera During the last 18 months there was a bruising and hard fought contest between Hillary Clinton (HC) and Donald Trump (DT) for the post of US \u00a0President. Apart from the US, the whole world eagerly watched the outcome as the US President is supposed to occupy the most powerful seat in world politics\u00a0. According [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drpasamaraweera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}