Nyani Ngabu
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Kalale wewe.....
US Election Coverage 2008
US Election Coverage 2008
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Kalale wewe.....
Susuviri
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Koba, naona Democratic Party convention inaenda bomba sana! Mjomba wake Nyani - Bill Clinton ameongea vizuri sana na there's no doubt that Bill has endorsed Barack! Biden and Kerry have also been GREAT, McCain is wrong, Obama is right - na mifano juu: Babu yake Nyani kang'ang'ania kukaa Iraq indefinitely akisema hakuna timetable, sasa besti wake W amesema wamekubaliana na Maliki about timetable. Aibuuu! Babu atazidi kuumbuka, now that the Democrats are united! Mkuu, hebu endelea kutuletea picha za Kerry na Biden tufurahi!
Susuviri
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Nyani: VP nominee wa Babu yako ni nani? I think haitakuwa Liebermann maana your Master Karl Rove hamtaki:
Sasa mlikuwa mnatusema sisi Democrats, kumbe kuna vituko in GOP!! So who will win Lieberman or Romney? Tupatie basi nyepesi na inside info, mjukuu wa McCain!
FairPlayer
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POW, Pole sana. Ulikuwa unaipigania America?
Hey I understand it's hard to appreciate or even understand my posts when you have an IQ of 72 points. I don't expect you to nor I am suggesting you are violating any JF rules, but I was simply pointing out something you were doing consciously or subconsiously in your posts. "Bwahahahaha" on every post is your insecurity blanket.
...Sydney (gender neutral) makopo my friend my friend my friend dril drill drill here!
...the truth aKA sanjaya mnuka vitunguu rudi ghetto bombay ukaliwe na panya,yuuuuuck mihindi mibaguzi kama pilipili.
Obama: History in the making, first black nominee By JESSE J. HOLLAND and CALVIN WOODWARD, Associated Press Writers
Wed Aug 27, 7:04 PM ET
When this campaign ends, after future presidents have come and gone, and when today's young people are grown old, history will remember Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008, as the day a black man became the presidential nominee of a major party.
This is history with the ink still wet; transcendent, yet in your face now.
It's a history that belongs to the red states and the blue states and the United States, to borrow the phrase that made people first sit up and listen to Barack Obama only four years ago.
Americans who don't like him, who will never vote for him, own it, too.
The roll call of states Wednesday night at the Democratic convention means Denver joins Springfield, Ill., and Washington, D.C. in an arc that spans centuries which saw slavery, emancipation, lynchings, Jim Crow, lunch counter bigotry, voting rights, integration, oratory, intermarriage, black pride, assassination, riots, marches so many marches and now a nomination.
The arc traces Abraham Lincoln's legacy of freeing the slaves to Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech at the Lincoln Memorial 45 years ago Thursday, to the convention center in Denver.
And on next to Invesco Field, where Obama will speak on the anniversary of King's "I have a dream" speech.
"This is a monumental moment in our nation's history," Martin Luther King III, the civil rights icon's oldest son, told AP on Wednesday. "And it becomes obviously an even greater moment in November if he's elected."
Democrats have danced around race for much of their convention, to a point where the marker that will enter the history books is almost obscured. It's all about making whites comfortable voting for him. Democrats worry about a backlash.
Obama's racial milestone was on everyone's minds but few lips as speaker after speaker stood to emphasize that he is a regular guy.
Yet all knew, win or lose in the fall, something for the ages was unfolding. "This man is on a mission," said Florida delegate Cynthia Moore Chestnut of Gainesville.
That's a lot riding on someone who has fought no wars, led no mass protests, served two-thirds of a term in the Senate, and missed the height of the civil rights movement because he was too young.
Until now, Obama's promise has outpaced his achievements and, at times, he has sounded like a man carried along on a wave that came out of the blue.
"When I actually do something," he joked not so long ago, "we'll let you know."
Two movements for blacks and women converged in this campaign as Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton went head to head. Both movements got farther than ever before, but only one could carry the day.
The roll call ended her historic campaign to become the first female nominee of a major party and hard feelings linger.
Civil rights and women's rights are not in a horse race. But over two centuries it has felt like one, as if there were only so much equality to go around at any given moment.
Women and blacks have worked together at times, apart at other times and against each other on occasion, as their advancements leapfrogged.
Blacks got the right to vote, then women did. But then blacks wrestled for decades to secure the right to vote without impediments that amounted to disenfranchisement.
Paradoxically (does history ever unfold in a neat progression?), Obama is less a product of the civil rights movement than most of his black country men and women. He is not a descendent of slaves. He is the son of a black man from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas.
Obama inevitably stands on many shoulders as beneficiary of the evolution of black political power in the United States.
There are the shoulders of abolitionist Frederick Douglass, whose many accomplishments include this milestone: At the Republican convention in 1888, he received one vote in the presidential roll call, the first black man to get a vote for a major party nomination.
There are the shoulders of Jesse Jackson, a century later the first black contender to sway the race for president.
And the shoulders of ordinary voters across racial lines, like Kate Clark, 53, a white cafe owner in Nazareth, Pa., who said: "I think we need to see the United States and see the world through eyes that are younger, through eyes that have dreams, through eyes that see something new for the nation."
And Edwin David, who served with the famed World War II unit of black fighters known as the Tuskegee Airmen and, at age 83, and retired in the Pocono Mountains, pleaded: "Just let me live 'til voting time in November. In my lifetime, we just might get to see the first African-American president."
Wed Aug 27, 7:04 PM ET
When this campaign ends, after future presidents have come and gone, and when today's young people are grown old, history will remember Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008, as the day a black man became the presidential nominee of a major party.
This is history with the ink still wet; transcendent, yet in your face now.
It's a history that belongs to the red states and the blue states and the United States, to borrow the phrase that made people first sit up and listen to Barack Obama only four years ago.
Americans who don't like him, who will never vote for him, own it, too.
The roll call of states Wednesday night at the Democratic convention means Denver joins Springfield, Ill., and Washington, D.C. in an arc that spans centuries which saw slavery, emancipation, lynchings, Jim Crow, lunch counter bigotry, voting rights, integration, oratory, intermarriage, black pride, assassination, riots, marches so many marches and now a nomination.
The arc traces Abraham Lincoln's legacy of freeing the slaves to Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech at the Lincoln Memorial 45 years ago Thursday, to the convention center in Denver.
And on next to Invesco Field, where Obama will speak on the anniversary of King's "I have a dream" speech.
"This is a monumental moment in our nation's history," Martin Luther King III, the civil rights icon's oldest son, told AP on Wednesday. "And it becomes obviously an even greater moment in November if he's elected."
Democrats have danced around race for much of their convention, to a point where the marker that will enter the history books is almost obscured. It's all about making whites comfortable voting for him. Democrats worry about a backlash.
Obama's racial milestone was on everyone's minds but few lips as speaker after speaker stood to emphasize that he is a regular guy.
Yet all knew, win or lose in the fall, something for the ages was unfolding. "This man is on a mission," said Florida delegate Cynthia Moore Chestnut of Gainesville.
That's a lot riding on someone who has fought no wars, led no mass protests, served two-thirds of a term in the Senate, and missed the height of the civil rights movement because he was too young.
Until now, Obama's promise has outpaced his achievements and, at times, he has sounded like a man carried along on a wave that came out of the blue.
"When I actually do something," he joked not so long ago, "we'll let you know."
Two movements for blacks and women converged in this campaign as Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton went head to head. Both movements got farther than ever before, but only one could carry the day.
The roll call ended her historic campaign to become the first female nominee of a major party and hard feelings linger.
Civil rights and women's rights are not in a horse race. But over two centuries it has felt like one, as if there were only so much equality to go around at any given moment.
Women and blacks have worked together at times, apart at other times and against each other on occasion, as their advancements leapfrogged.
Blacks got the right to vote, then women did. But then blacks wrestled for decades to secure the right to vote without impediments that amounted to disenfranchisement.
Paradoxically (does history ever unfold in a neat progression?), Obama is less a product of the civil rights movement than most of his black country men and women. He is not a descendent of slaves. He is the son of a black man from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas.
Obama inevitably stands on many shoulders as beneficiary of the evolution of black political power in the United States.
There are the shoulders of abolitionist Frederick Douglass, whose many accomplishments include this milestone: At the Republican convention in 1888, he received one vote in the presidential roll call, the first black man to get a vote for a major party nomination.
There are the shoulders of Jesse Jackson, a century later the first black contender to sway the race for president.
And the shoulders of ordinary voters across racial lines, like Kate Clark, 53, a white cafe owner in Nazareth, Pa., who said: "I think we need to see the United States and see the world through eyes that are younger, through eyes that have dreams, through eyes that see something new for the nation."
And Edwin David, who served with the famed World War II unit of black fighters known as the Tuskegee Airmen and, at age 83, and retired in the Pocono Mountains, pleaded: "Just let me live 'til voting time in November. In my lifetime, we just might get to see the first African-American president."
I think the caption on this picture should read:
Obama: "My baby-mama Michelle beez out of town in da convensen n sheeit. Let me git it ooon wit deez whyte hoes. Nah meeeaan?"
Caption for this photo should read:
The man: "First you will drop me off at work, then you will take my wife and kid to store"
Obama: "Sure thing boss. I'm glad you hired me as your driver and gave me this nice suit."
Let me apologize before hand for my poor Ebonics imitation but I think I am pretty close to how Obama would sound speaking (when he is not speaking on camera in front of millions).
Obama: "My baby-mama Michelle beez out of town in da convensen n sheeit. Let me git it ooon wit deez whyte hoes. Nah meeeaan?"
Caption for this photo should read:
The man: "First you will drop me off at work, then you will take my wife and kid to store"
Obama: "Sure thing boss. I'm glad you hired me as your driver and gave me this nice suit."
Let me apologize before hand for my poor Ebonics imitation but I think I am pretty close to how Obama would sound speaking (when he is not speaking on camera in front of millions).
Jindal is a governor of a state in the deep south. Obviously his skin tone is not a hindrance when it comes to electability. Couple that with the fact that he is nothing but brains, I don't see how McCain could wrong picking him as his running mate.
Mtanganyika
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How did Clinton Machine Failed? They had the money, the people, the power and the media. Will the massage of CHANGE survive infront of GOP super attacking machine under the supervison of Karl Rove students?
All in all how did the Clintons failed? Kama unataka kujua zaidi soma hii article ni page 24 imeandikwa na insider wa Politico. Everything in the article ni kutoka kwa insider wa the clinton. It is one of the article that you need to read if you love cut throat politics
[media]http://www.politico.com/relentless/relentless.pdf[/media]
Swali linabaki, will the media know the political math which deals with electro vote?
All in all how did the Clintons failed? Kama unataka kujua zaidi soma hii article ni page 24 imeandikwa na insider wa Politico. Everything in the article ni kutoka kwa insider wa the clinton. It is one of the article that you need to read if you love cut throat politics
[media]http://www.politico.com/relentless/relentless.pdf[/media]
Swali linabaki, will the media know the political math which deals with electro vote?
Mtanganyika
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Underdog works, but not without to fight hard. Obama needs to go back to Bill and Biden book shelfs, and took what i called Kitchen sink dirty politics Memoir. Enough of change, and CHANGE speech. Take it like South Side of Chicago politics. Ukimwaga mboga na mwaga ugali. Paint McCain as warmonger who knows how to FLY planes and have nothing to do with leadership. Challenge his wealth and how he doesn't care about middle family. Paint him as BushMcCain twin towers and they have the same mission, which is to take all to the poor.
He need to do this not on 100,000 people. But he need to take to the townhall meetings, to the home of scrappy shiftworker in Ohio, Wiscosin, and the rural are of Indiana and Rocky Mountains in Colorado.
He also need to be a fighter, next week wakati GOP wana convention in Minesota, he need to send the whole team of agressive attacker includes John Kerry to attack about Republican attacking machine. Fly the media Air with Ads, challange McCain Vp, if it will be Rommney.
The campaign is On, but the stake is too high for Obama if he will be a change candidate.
Susuviri
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Mtanganyika, I agree with a number of things that you have said but I would like to point out that Obama is playing hardball, even though not directly. He needs to stay above the fray and he has his surrogates who do the attacking. Biden is a great attack dog. Remember "Verb. Noun. 9/11"? Kerry is very effective as well and tonight was the opening number of things to come. This democratic party is not the same and they are ready to get down and dirty. You should also appreciate the swiftness with which Obama team has reacted to smears and to innuendos. The team is good. Obama needs to stay out of the mudracking maana anajishushia hadhi, let the attackdogs do it.
About town hall meetings, he will do more of that that and recently he has been doing that. Don't believe everything you read in the mainstream media. Ukienda kwenye website yake utaona that he has done a number of town hall meetings, remember he was heckled recently? So he is doing the right thing and doesn't need to do it the Clinton or Biden way he is doing it his way "Speaks softly but carries a big stick".
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