Hillary Obama, the Perfect Candidate … in Belgium

Published in El Mundo
(Spain) on 18 April 2008
by María Ramírez (link to originallink to original)
Translated from by Christopher Clayborn. Edited by .
The experience and the soundness of Hillary, combined with the enthusiasm and novelty of Obama. The revolution of a woman president of the strongest power of the world with the racial victory of a black?

This is probably the impossible dream of the democrats and the superdelegates -- the representatives of the party in whose hands the nomination of the most agonizing presidential race in decades is in. What could perhaps be a good idea to overcome the dilemma (which is making the brilliant president of the democratic party quite impatient), would have a peculiar aesthetic result, according to the photo version of the two rivals that was perfectly blended at the University of Brussels.

"Why choose, when you can combine?" -- said the announcement of the Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel (HUBrussel), a center of studies in Dutch and English, a center of studies for college -- equivalent to a Spanish university, but shorter, and the University in the Anglo-Saxon feeling, but for masters, doctorates, and other specializations.

The HUB utilizes the support of the Catholic University of Lovaina, in Flanders, and is clearly Americanized, if not for its public interest, then for its academic approach and choice of languages. As a good Flemish center, the HUB doesn't even offer its webpage in French -- despite having its headquarters in the Belgian capital, the only official bilingual area of the country.

After all, for a Belgian, perhaps it's easy to combine man and woman, black and white. But, cross-dressing has it's insurmountable limits, as it seems is also the case with Dutch and French.


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¿La experiencia y la solidez de Hillary combinadas con el entusiasmo y la novedad de Obama? ¿La revolución de una mujer presidenta de la primera potencia del mundo con la victoria racial del liderazgo de un negro?

Ése probablemente es el sueño imposible de los demócratas y de sus superdelegados, los representantes del partido en cuyas manos está la nominación presidencial de EEUU más agónica en décadas. Lo que tal vez sería una buena idea para superar el dilema, que empieza a impacientar al brillante presidente del Partido Demócrata, el ex candidato Howard Dean, tendría un peculiar resultado estético, según la versión de los dos rivales actuales perfectamente fundidos por una Universidad de Bruselas. "¿Por qué elegir cuando puedes combinar?", dice el anuncio de la Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel (HUBrussel), un centro de estudios en neerlandés e inglés que propone el mismo lugar para cursar el college -el equivalente a la Universidad española, aunque más breve- y la Universidad en sentido anglosajón, para Masters, doctorados y otras especialidades.

La HUB utiliza los recursos de la Universidad Católica de Lovaina, en Flandes, y es claramente americanófila, además de por su interés publicitario, por su planteamiento académico y su elección de idiomas. Como buen centro flamenco, HUB, eso sí, no ofrece ni siquiera su página web en francés pese a tener sede en la capital de Bélgica, el único punto oficialmente bilingüe del país.

Después de todo, para un belga, tal vez se pueda fácilmente "combinar" hombre y mujer, negro y blanco, pero, el travestismo tiene sus límites insalvables, como, al parecer, la mezcla del neerlandés y el francés.
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