Having spent a couple of days on the ground observing the campaign for next Thursday's by-election, here are a few thoughts: 1.
"Here you have to understand about modern medicine and the tradition of minority groups," explained Latda Pathammavong, Director of the National Commission for Mothers and Children Secretariat (NCMC), who had just returned from observing the campaign's third round in several provinces and pleased with the results so far.
Those news organizations that have chosen to observe the campaign mostly from outside the bubble have hardly shied from original reporting.
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On the brighter side, he observed, the campaign did at least generate some inspired comedy, in the form of an online photo book imagining how the entire thing might have been dreamed up at the White House to justify President Obama's deployment of troops to Africa.
He also invited Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt to observe the campaign, though Reinfeldt did not address a party rally.
A joint technical mission from UNICEF and WHO also visited the country during the first phase of the campaign and have advised the government on taking steps to prevent future outbreaks of measles.. Teams from WHO and UNICEF were deployed to different parts of the country to observe the campaign in both the phases.
Observing the Peninsula Campaign, Gurowski concluded that if French, Prussian or Russian military leaders showed such incompetence "they would be condemned as unfit to have any military command whatever".
Observing the presidential campaigns -- as all the pundits are doing 24/7 while most Americans remain totally disinterested -- one can get the impression President Obama is shying away from any dramatic or controversial policy proposals and, instead, is depending on the following premises for a November 2012 victory.
But 2016, defense analysts and political advisers observing the mid-October campaign for Mosul point out, is no normal election year.
