US Election Coverage 2008

US Election Coverage 2008

jmushi1 said:
Mama alijipa maujiko ya kukwepo marisasi huko bosnia..sasa mambo ya video yakamuumbua..then aka claim "Mistatement"!Navyozumgumza hivi sasa vichaa wanakomaa nae kwamba alisema uongo na asijidai ni mis-statement!Halafu mama anaspin na kuanza kudai mambo ya rev wright kwamba angekuwa yeye asingekuwa muumini wa kanisa lake!Hii ni spin ya ajabu coz anajaribu kudistract attention kwenye urongo wake anao uhubiri kila kukicha!Halafu ndugu yangu Nyani inaelekea wewe ni muumini wa Fox news..yani umekuwa kama mnazi!manipulated and unable to reason properly...and to consider the other side of the coin when weighing up issues!This will help you with coming out with fairly constructive ideas hence better understanding!Ni kama ushauri tu..pls dont take it personal!
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Katika dakika ishirini zijazo usiache kuangalia PMS-NBC.....upate talking points zenye nguvu kidogo. FOX news huwawezi wewe.....they are the quintessence of excellence in broadcasting and you need to be a certain kind to get that and you are not that kind....shhooorry...
 
Duh!!1 chukueni likizo kidogo sasa...

Obama related to Pitt, Clinton to Jolie
Researchers find remarkable family connections for the candidates
The Associated Press

BOSTON - This could make for one odd family reunion: Barack Obama is a distant cousin of actor Brad Pitt, and Hillary Rodham Clinton is related to Pitt's girlfriend, Angelina Jolie.

Researchers at the New England Historic Genealogical Society found some remarkable family connections for the three presidential candidates — Democratic rivals Obama and Clinton, and Republican John McCain.

Clinton, who is of French-Canadian descent on her mother's side, is also a distant cousin of singers Madonna, Celine Dion and Alanis Morissette. Obama, the son of a white woman from Kansas and a black man from Kenya, can call six U.S. presidents, including George W. Bush, his cousins. McCain is a sixth cousin of first lady Laura Bush.

Genealogist Christopher Child said that while the candidates often focus on pointing out differences between them, their ancestry shows they are more alike than they think.

"It shows that lots of different people can be related, people you wouldn't necessarily expect," Child said.

Obama has a prolific presidential lineage that features Democrats and Republicans. His distant cousins include President George W. Bush and his father, George H.W. Bush, Gerald Ford, Lyndon Johnson, Harry S. Truman and James Madison. Other Obama cousins include Vice President Dick Cheney, British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill and Civil War General Robert E. Lee.

"His kinships are across the political spectrum," Child said.

Child has spent the last three years tracing the candidates' genealogy, along with senior research scholar Gary Boyd Roberts, author of the 1989 book, "Ancestors of American Presidents."

Clinton's distant cousins include beatnik author Jack Kerouac and Camilla Parker-Bowles, wife of Prince Charles of England.

McCain's ancestry was more difficult to trace because records on his relatives were not as complete as records for the families of Obama and Clinton, Child said.

Obama and President Bush are 10th cousins, once removed, linked by Samuel Hinkley of Cape Cod, who died in 1662.

Pitt and Obama are ninth cousins, linked by Edwin Hickman, who died in Virginia in 1769.

Clinton and Jolie are ninth cousins, twice removed, both related to Jean Cusson who died in St. Sulpice, Quebec, in 1718.

The New England Historic Genealogical Society, founded in 1845, is the oldest and largest nonprofit genealogical organization in the country.

Copyright 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23797072/
 
Nyani Ngabu said:
Katika dakika ishirini zijazo usiache kuangalia PMS-NBC.....upate talking points zenye nguvu kidogo. FOX news huwawezi wewe.....they are the quintessence of excellence in broadcasting and you need to be a certain kind to get that and you are not that kind....shhooorry...
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I really didn't get it!
 
Tunasubiria ya Mama.

Barack Obama's income took a big nosedive last year, but nobody's going to be holding a bake sale for the Democratic presidential contender.

The Illinois senator released his 2006 federal tax return Monday, a day ahead of Tuesday's tax filing deadline. Obama and his wife, Michelle, reported taxable income of $983,826, down from $1.6 million in 2005.

The big difference involves two lucrative book deals Obama signed before entering the Senate in 2005, one involving advances for three volumes Obama agreed to write for Random House and the other paying residuals for the re-release of his 1995 autobiography, Dreams From My Father.

The book deals netted Obama more than $1.2 million in 2005, but only $506,618 in 2006. The first of the Random House books, "The Audacity of Hope," was released in 2006 and became an instant best-seller.

Obama released only Form 1040 from his tax return and not underlying attachments which provide detail about income and spending. But a summary released by his campaign said Obama earned $157,082 in Senate salary and his wife earned $273,618 from the University of Chicago Hospitals where she works as an administrator. Michelle Obama also earned $51,200 in fees from her work on the board of directors of Westchester-based Treehouse Foods, a wholesaler of pickles and other specialty food products.

She was appointed to the Treehouse board in 2005, just after Obama entered the Senate.

The Obamas gave $60,307 to charity. The largest gift was $22,500 to Trinity United Church of Christ, the South Side congregation they have long attended. Another $13,107 went to the Congressional Black Caucus, with $15,000 directed to CARE, an international aid organization that fights hunger, poverty and disease in the third world. They also gave $5,000 to the Muntu Dance Theater, a south side troupe that performs contemporary and ancient African dances.

The Obamas, who have two young daughters, also paid $1,000 in household employment taxes, the campaign said.
 
Nyani Ngabu said:
Colmes gets owned all the time....
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Yule naye kawekwa pale kanyaboya tu..fix za fox zishajulikana kitambo tu..ni utaratibu uleule wa tokens..the likes of juan williams!sometimes Colmes anajitahidi lakini ni wazi yuko pale kwa maslahi ya kikazi ama fix nuz walipomfanyia usaili walihakikisha kuwa he is not near or even closer to a true Democrat..instead just to act and talk like one!
 
Bibi Amuendorse Babu!hivi Hujui Kuna Baadhi Ya Wagombea Wa Marepablikani Wana Hang On Coz Babu Anaweza Kututoka Anytime Given His Very Old Age!Huyu Nancy Reagan anajua anachokifanya ama hawa wazee wameshaanza kuziloose
 
....PMS ninayoijua mimi au nyingine!?? angalia "Beijing" wasikujie juu!!
....angalia MSNBC kwa afya yako, saa nyingine mie naangalia BBC-America maana haya ma-nuz ya hizi networks zetu yamezidi sana bias!!
 
YournameisMINE said:
....PMS ninayoijua mimi au nyingine!?? angalia "Beijing" wasikujie juu!!
....angalia MSNBC kwa afya yako, saa nyingine mie naangalia BBC-America maana haya ma-nuz ya hizi networks zetu yamezidi sana bias!!
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Ukizidi kuangalia hiyo PMS-NBC na wewe utapata hiyo PMS...
Ni vizuri umeshtukia mapema na kuanza kuangalia BBC America. Hapo nakuunga mkono kwani hata mii naangaliaga hiyo. Hao wako more objective...
 
I find it very interesting and odd that angeondoka kanisani na kumuacha pastor, and she wouldn't leave her husband who has a penchant for cheating on her....Kazi kweli kweli.

When the controversy surrounding some of Jeremiah Wright’s sermons first erupted a couple of weeks ago, the Clinton campaign went out of its way to say absolutely nothing about the story publicly. If a reporter brought it up during one of the campaign’s many conference calls, you could practically hear tumbleweeds rolling. The flap was undermining the Obama campaign, and Team Clinton saw no need whatsoever to intervene.

This was, to my mind, the right call. Given the racial elements of the campaign thus far, it would have been a huge risk for the Clinton campaign to be seen stoking the same fires as Fox News. Yes, Ickes & Co. were using it with superdelegates, but that’s behind the scenes. The public pitch was different: “When Clinton was then asked specifically if her campaign was pushing the Wright story — she shrugged and took the next question, ignoring the reporter.”

That was five whole days ago. The desperation factor has apparently grown more intense.

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, in a wide-ranging interview today with Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reporters and editors, said she would have left her church if her pastor made the sort of inflammatory remarks Sen. Barack Obama’s former pastor made.

“He would not have been my pastor,” Clinton said. “You don’t choose your family, but you choose what church you want to attend.” […]

The Clinton campaign has refrained from getting involved in the controversy, but Clinton herself, responding to a question, denounced what she said was “hate speech.”

“You know, I spoke out against Don Imus, saying that hate speech was unacceptable in any setting, and I believe that,” Clinton said. “I just think you have to speak out against that. You certainly have to do that, if not explicitly, then implicitly by getting up and moving.”

It’s hard to overstate how disappointing this is. Clinton waited until the story had died down and then decided to make her first public comments on the controversy, going after Obama for staying with his church.

I know Clinton is willing to fight as hard as possible for his nomination, but tactics like these are pretty low.

This may sound cynical, but my guess is that media interest in Clinton’s debunked Bosnia story had become too great a distraction. The controversy (and damaging videos) undermined Clinton on two fronts — credibility and national security experience — both of which are of critical significance.

So, how better to change the subject that to revive the Jeremiah Wright story with brand new criticism?

Clinton has been offered repeated chances to comment on the Wright controversy for three weeks. She’s not only declined, she’s avoided saying a single word. Today, all of a sudden, Clinton has all kinds of concerns she’s anxious to share. What a remarkable coincidence.

What’s more, we now have a situation in which John McCain defended Obama against Wright-related charges, and Mike Huckabee defended Obama, but Hillary Clinton sat down with editors of a conservative newspaper to reignite a fire that had already largely gone out.

Less than a week ago, former Mondale campaign manager Bob Beckel said, “Many liberals like myself, who would be happy to support Hillary Clinton if she earned the nomination, would abandon her if her campaign seeks to exploit the Wright controversy either in the remaining contests or with superdelegates.”

Now, it appears she’s doing both. I’d hoped Clinton was above this.
 
Now can she denounce and reject this?

During the Clinton years at the White House, they attended Foundry United Methodist Church in Washington, DC. I don't know for sure where she attends now, or even if she does, but in light of her statements that she would have left Wright's church, it is interesting to see that the Minister at Foundry has put out the following statement in support of Rev. Wright.

A STATEMENT CONCERNING THE REV. JEREMIAH WRIGHT

The Reverend Jeremiah Wright is an outstanding church leader
whom I have heard speak a number of times. He has served for
decades as a profound voice for justice and inclusion in our society.
He has been a vocal critic of the racism, sexism and homophobia
which still tarnish the American dream. To evaluate his dynamic
ministry on the basis of two or three sound bites does a grave
injustice to Dr. Wright, the members of his congregation, and the
African-American church which has been the spiritual refuge of a
people that has suffered from discrimination, disadvantage, and
violence. Dr. Wright, a member of an integrated denomination, has
been an agent of racial reconciliation while proclaiming perceptions and truths uncomfortable for some white people to hear. Those of us who are white Americans would do well to listen carefully to Dr. Wright rather than to use a few of his quotes to polarize. This is a critical time in America's history as we seek to repent of our racism. No matter which candidates prevail, let us use this time to listen again to one another and not to distort one another's truth.

Dean J. Snyder, Senior Minister
Foundry United Methodist Church
March 19, 2008

So I wonder now if Sen Clinton will bother reject and denounce her own minister?
 
A classic exchange between Sean Hannity and John McCain last night (bolding mine):

HANNITY: Sen. Clinton claims that Barack Obama has not had the scrutiny that other candidates have had in this campaign.

There is a big emerging controversy about his pastor of 20 years, a man who went on a trip with Louis Farrakhan to Tripoli, a guy that has — his church has given a lifetime achievement award to Louis Farrakhan. We now have some of his sermons. He used "g-d America," "the U.S. of KKK of A." "The chickens have come home to roost," he said the Sunday after the attack on this country on 9/11.

He has called him — Barack has said of his pastor, his trusted adviser, he's proud of his pastor. He married him and his wife. He's baptized his kids.

Does that sound like a problem for you?

MCCAIN: I think that when people support you, it doesn't mean that you support everything they say. Obviously, those words and those statements are statements that none of us would associate ourselves with, and I don't believe that Sen. Obama would support any of those, as well.

HANNITY: He's been — but he's been going to the church for 20 years. His pastor — the church gave a lifetime achievement award to one of the biggest racists and anti-Semites in the country, Louis Farrakhan. Would you go to a church that — where your pastor supported Louis Farrakhan?

MCCAIN: Obviously, that would not be my choice. But I do know Sen. Obama. He does not share those views.

And we get sometimes — I don't — a lot of those statements I've just heard for the first time that you mentioned. But I know that, for example, I've had endorsements of some people that I didn't share their views...

HANNITY: Pastor Hagee recently, yes.

MCCAIN: ... but they endorsed mine. And so I think we've got to be very careful about that part.


Don't be surprised to see the Obama campaign use McCain's defense should the Wright footage be used against them this fall.
 
Mume ni mtu tofauti na mchungaji. Na wala huo mlinganisho sio mzuri...to be honest ni wa kijinga!!
 
Icadon said:
I find it very interesting and odd that angeondoka kanisani na kumuacha pastor, and she wouldn't leave her husband who has a penchant for cheating on her....Kazi kweli kweli.

When the controversy surrounding some of Jeremiah Wright’s sermons first erupted a couple of weeks ago, the Clinton campaign went out of its way to say absolutely nothing about the story publicly. If a reporter brought it up during one of the campaign’s many conference calls, you could practically hear tumbleweeds rolling. The flap was undermining the Obama campaign, and Team Clinton saw no need whatsoever to intervene.

This was, to my mind, the right call. Given the racial elements of the campaign thus far, it would have been a huge risk for the Clinton campaign to be seen stoking the same fires as Fox News. Yes, Ickes & Co. were using it with superdelegates, but that’s behind the scenes. The public pitch was different: “When Clinton was then asked specifically if her campaign was pushing the Wright story — she shrugged and took the next question, ignoring the reporter.”

That was five whole days ago. The desperation factor has apparently grown more intense.

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, in a wide-ranging interview today with Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reporters and editors, said she would have left her church if her pastor made the sort of inflammatory remarks Sen. Barack Obama’s former pastor made.

“He would not have been my pastor,” Clinton said. “You don’t choose your family, but you choose what church you want to attend.” […]

The Clinton campaign has refrained from getting involved in the controversy, but Clinton herself, responding to a question, denounced what she said was “hate speech.”

“You know, I spoke out against Don Imus, saying that hate speech was unacceptable in any setting, and I believe that,” Clinton said. “I just think you have to speak out against that. You certainly have to do that, if not explicitly, then implicitly by getting up and moving.”

It’s hard to overstate how disappointing this is. Clinton waited until the story had died down and then decided to make her first public comments on the controversy, going after Obama for staying with his church.

I know Clinton is willing to fight as hard as possible for his nomination, but tactics like these are pretty low.

This may sound cynical, but my guess is that media interest in Clinton’s debunked Bosnia story had become too great a distraction. The controversy (and damaging videos) undermined Clinton on two fronts — credibility and national security experience — both of which are of critical significance.

So, how better to change the subject that to revive the Jeremiah Wright story with brand new criticism?

Clinton has been offered repeated chances to comment on the Wright controversy for three weeks. She’s not only declined, she’s avoided saying a single word. Today, all of a sudden, Clinton has all kinds of concerns she’s anxious to share. What a remarkable coincidence.

What’s more, we now have a situation in which John McCain defended Obama against Wright-related charges, and Mike Huckabee defended Obama, but Hillary Clinton sat down with editors of a conservative newspaper to reignite a fire that had already largely gone out.

Less than a week ago, former Mondale campaign manager Bob Beckel said, “Many liberals like myself, who would be happy to support Hillary Clinton if she earned the nomination, would abandon her if her campaign seeks to exploit the Wright controversy either in the remaining contests or with superdelegates.”

Now, it appears she’s doing both. I’d hoped Clinton was above this.
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Hillary is obviously playing dirty, and frankly, most democrats, and even her supporters are upset with her...she's knows that she's gonna end up losing to Obama anyways, and therefore she's acting like a typical kid...she spits on the candy so that everybody else but herself gets to eat the candy!

The bottom line is...she's a fraud and a lier! She's been boasting about her ability to be the all-American leader, and to be ready on day one, and in doing so, she has lied about the Bosnia story - REPEATEDLY in her speeches, and even in one of her books! And now she ends up with an explanation that "It was a mistake"? Please!
 
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