US Election Coverage 2008

US Election Coverage 2008

Nyani McCain said:
Kwa mtu mwenye akili angegundua kuwa niko sarcastic........bwahahahahahahahaaa.....wewe endelea tu na vidonda....
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...sawa mie sina akili!!! LOL, vidonda pouwa tu kwani ndio vinaniweka mjini hapa na bia nakunywa!! hahahaha
 
Nyani McCain said:
Kwa mtu mwenye akili angegundua kuwa niko sarcastic........bwahahahahahahahaaa.....wewe endelea tu na vidonda....
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Mkulu ndani kwa ndani unaweza kuwa umeshakata tamaa ila nje ndio unataka tukuone unafanya dhihaki....!!!
 
Icadon said:
Mkulu ndani kwa ndani unaweza kuwa umeshakata tamaa ila nje ndio unataka tukuone unafanya dhihaki....!!!
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TGFG us Icadon!! jamaa kakata tamaa, mkia katikati ya miguu lakini anagelesha ati sarcassim
 
YournameisMINE said:
MJUE KI-MUNGU MTU WA NYANI McCAIN, fala wa kutupwa, Comedian/Entertainer, pimbi Rush Limbaugh AKA Rush Hudson Limbaugh III

Born: 12-Jan-1951
Birthplace: Cape Girardeau, MO


Gender: Male
Religion: Methodist
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Radio Personality, Pundit
Party Affiliation: Republican

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Conservative talk show host

Rush Limbaugh was born into a prominent Missouri family, and raised in a town about thirty miles from the Kentucky border. His grandfather, the first Rush Hudson Limbaugh, was America's Ambassador to India in the Eisenhower administration. His uncle, Stephen Limbaugh, was appointed federal judge by Ronald Reagan, and his cousin, Stephen Limbaugh Jr, was appointed to the U.S. District Court by George W. Bush. His father was a prominent local attorney, who imbued his children with conservative ideology. His brother, David Limbaugh, is a lawyer and conservative writer.

He started in radio as a disc jockey on his home town's KGMO (part-owned by Limbaugh's father) while he was still in high school, using the on-air name "Rusty Sharpe." He dropped out of college, and eventually landed a job as a morning disc jockey at a small top-40 radio station in McKeesport, PA, near Pittsburgh. He quickly moved to a bigger station in Pittsburgh, where he worked as "Jeff Christie", and then to Kansas City, where he used his real name. Several times over several years he was fired for making too many, too rude political comments. Frustrated at his lack of success, he left radio, and took a job selling tickets for the Kansas City Royals baseball team.
Limbaugh's radio career was revived by Norm Woodruff, a San Francisco radio executive who urged friends at Sacramento's KFBK to hire him at a time when he was essentially unknown in the radio business. Woodruff even took Limbaugh shopping for clothes, improving his appearance to make a better impression on KFBK brass. The station decided to take a chance, putting Limbaugh on in what had been Morton Downey, Jr.'s time slot. His ratings were better than Downey's, putting Limbaugh's career back on track. In telling the story of his success, Limbaugh occasionally mentions Woodruff's help, but he never mentions that Woodruff was openly gay, and died of AIDS in the 1980s.

Limbaugh's biggest break came in 1987, when the Federal Communications Commission repealed its Fairness Doctrine, a rule that had required radio and television stations to provide equal time to both sides of political debates. Freed from any requirement to air rebuttals to provocative opinions, Limbaugh's radio style suddenly looked much more profitable, and within months he left Sacramento and signed with the ABC Radio Network, which syndicated his show from New York. Limbaugh is now syndicated by Premiere Radio Networks, which is owned by Clear Channel Communications. He is heard on about 600 stations nationwide, with little room for further growth -- there is no major market area where his program cannot be heard. "Excellence In Broadcasting", which Limbaugh frequently cites as the name of his network, is part of his schtick, but EIB as an entity does not really exist.

When substituting for Pat Sajak in a 1990 episode of Sajak's ill-fated late night talk show, he was heckled and booed by the studio audience after he made anti-gay comments, until the auditorium was emptied, leaving Limbaugh to finish the show in front of hundreds of empty seats. He had his own half-hour syndicated TV show from 1992-96, produced by Republican operative and later CEO of Fox News Roger Ailes and filmed in front of studio audiences pre-screened to be friendly to his conservative perspectives.

Limbaugh backs conservative causes without any exceptions -- he supports capital punishment, opposes abortion, claims that global warming is a lie, etc. Callers are pre-screened; few who disagree with the host are allowed on the air. There are rare guests -- occasionally Vice President Dick Cheney or other Republican officials drop in for a interview. For three hours daily, five days a week, Limbaugh weaves his opinion with a sense of humor, sarcasm, and a confident voice that sounds accurate and authoritative, even if the facts he recites are often far from correct.

He has claimed, for example, that no-one was indicted in the Iran-Contra scandal (14 were), that America has more forest land now than in 1492 (according to US Forest Service estimates, about 250,000,000 acres have been cut), that 75% of Americans who earn minimum wage are teenagers on their first job (in reality, the vast majority of minimum wage workers are over the age of 20), on and on. He has also given occasional credence to fringe conspiracy theories, claiming, for example, that Vince Foster was murdered instead of committing suicide, and that the crime took place in an apartment leased to Hillary Clinton. Limbaugh has also accused German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer of being a member of Germany's Red Army Faction, a communist guerilla group blamed for more than 30 murders.

Limbaugh came to manhood in an era when the nation had a military draft for the Vietnam war. He avoided service by having his physician certify his medical unfitness due to an "inoperable pilonidal cyst" and "a football knee from high school." He played one year of varsity football in high school, and his coach, Ryland Meyr, said later he remembered no injuries to Limbaugh. Those who loathe Limbaugh sometimes describe his pilonidal cyst as "a boil on his butt", but that is an oversimplification. A pilonidal cyst is a chronic collection of pus or an abnormal draining passage leading to an abscess, located in the opening between the buttocks muscles. It is susceptible to infection, which can be dangerous on a war front, so severe pilonidal cysts have long been (and still are) legitimate grounds for exemption from military service. The peculiar thing is that Limbaugh denies he ever had a pilonidal cyst, dismissing it as "internet bull", though the record is plain.

But Limbaugh reaches ordinary Americans, because he sounds like an ordinary American. Sometimes he sounds like an ordinary working stiff, as he complains about the wealthy elite who control America: "All of these rich guys -- like the Kennedy family and Perot -- pretending to live just like we do and pretending to understand our trials and tribulations and pretending to represent us." Limbaugh's current contract pays him $45-million per year, and he has spoken of friends who make $180,000 per year and "don't consider themselves rich". He has said of the official poverty line, "$14,400 for a family of four? That's not so bad." Commenting on corporate outsourcing and layoffs, Limbaugh once wondered, "Why is it that whenever a corporation fires workers, it's never speculated that the workers might have deserved it?"

Limbaugh's impact on America has been huge. Talk radio was a very minor niche when his program was first syndicated, and stations that aired a conservative-tilted program almost invariably balanced that with a liberal-tilted program. Now, talk radio is almost exclusively conservative, and Limbaugh has spawned many imitators, including Sean Hannity, Michael Medved, and Tony Snow -- all of whom got early exposure guest-hosting on Limbaugh's program. In 1994, Limbaugh was widely credited as Republicans were elected to control of Congress, with several newly-elected Congressman openly calling themselves "the Dittohead caucus."

In his book The Way Things Ought To Be, Limbaugh wrote, "I believe that strong, wholesome family values are at the very core of a productive, prosperous, and peaceful society." So what are Limbaugh's family values? His first wife, Roxy Maxine McNeely, was a sales secretary at a Kansas City radio station. She was granted divorce under grounds of incompatibility after almost three years of marriage. His second wife, Michelle Sixta, was an usher at the Royals' ball park. They divorced after about five years. He met his third wife, aerobics instructor Marta Fitzgerald, through CompuServe's dating service, and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas performed their wedding ceremony. According to the Palm Beach Post, Limbaugh and Fitzgerald maintained separate houses during their marriage. She divorced Limbaugh at his request after ten years of marriage, at about the time Limbaugh began dating then-CNN anchor Daryn Kagan.

In 2003, Limbaugh was forced to resign as a football commentator at ESPN amid allegations of racism, after he said in a telecast that Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb was overrated, given "extra credit" because the league and the media wanted a black quarterback to be successful. So is Limbaugh a racist? On his show, he routinely pronounces "ask" and "asked" as "axe" and "axed", he routinely calls light-skinned African-Americans like Halle Berry and Barack Obama "Halfrican-Americans", he once told a black caller to "take that bone out of your nose and call me back", and he has asked, "Have you ever noticed how all newspaper composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson?"

When his comments are taken as offensive, Limbaugh seems to enjoy the added attention. Among his more famous lines, he described the abuse at Abu Ghraib, where prisoners were stacked naked, sexually taunted and beaten while blindfolded, as the equivalent of "hazing, a fraternity prank". He called 13-year-old Chelsea Clinton "the White House dog", and eulogized Kurt Cobain as "a worthless shred of human debris." In 2006, when it was revealed that Republican Congressman Mark Foley had sent sexually explicit emails to an underage Congressional page, Limbaugh was the first and one of the few media voices to announce the teenager's name. He also blamed the boy for leading the Congressman on, wondering on the air if "maybe the page is out there engaged in some kind of chicanery."

In 2001, Limbaugh announced on his radio program that he had been losing his hearing, and was "almost completely deaf." He then had a cochlear implant installed in his left ear, and said that his hearing was mostly restored. In 2003, responding to published reports that he was under investigation for purchasing illegal drugs, he announced that he had become addicted to prescription opiates such as oxycodone as a result of long-term back pain. Oxycodone is marketed under such familiar brand names as Percodan, Percocet, and OxyContin, and hearing loss is a well-established side effect of oxycodone addiction.

Limbaugh, of course, has always called for harsh penalties for drug abusers, arguing that "if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up." After admitting his own addiction, he took a month off his radio show to undergo rapid rehab. He then spent the next several years battling Florida investigators who sought his medical records to investigate him for "doctor shopping" -- the crime of obtaining the same prescription from more than one doctor, since Limbaugh's use of oxycodone had been far in excess of the amount any doctor would plausibly prescribe. Claiming a right to privacy, he was assisted in his courtroom appeals by the American Civil Liberties Union, a group he has often criticized before and after accepting their help. In a 2006 plea bargain, charges were dropped in exchange for Limbaugh's payment of $30,000, agreement to undergo 18 months of drug abatement therapy, and his agreement to submit to random drug testing.

In June 2006, Limbaugh had further drug problems when a bottle of Viagra was found in his luggage at the Palm Beach Airport. The prescription was not in Limbaugh's name, but no charges were filed against Limbaugh, who was returning from a vacation in the Dominican Republic with four male companions.

In October 2006, responding to television ads showing a shaky Parkinson's-afflicted Michael J. Fox pleading for voters to support candidates who would fund embryonic stem cell research over Republicans who oppose such research, Limbaugh said Fox was simply faking his symptoms. "He is exaggerating the effects of the disease," Limbaugh said. "He is moving all around and shaking and it's purely an act... This is really shameless of Michael J. Fox. Either he didn't take his medication or he's acting."

Since Limbaugh's Sacramento days, his show's theme song has been an endless bass-beating loop snipped from a 1984 song by The Pretenders, "My City Was Gone." The song, though, has potent and openly liberal lyrics, written by Chrissie Hynde to protest over-development: "I went back to Ohio / but my pretty countryside / had been paved down the middle / by a government that had no pride." Limbaugh never sought permission to use the music, never paid royalties, and Hynde, living in England, heard only occasionally about her song's hijacking. She had no comment until 1997, when Limbaugh answered a reporter's question about the song by explaining that it was "icing on the cake that it was [written by] an environmentalist, animal rights wacko and was an anti-conservative song. It is anti-development, anti-capitalist, and here I am going to take a liberal song and make fun of [liberals] at the same time." Upon reading that, Hynde had her representatives contact Limbaugh and demand payment. At Hynde's request, Limbaugh's royalty checks for using her song are now made payable to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).


Father: Rush H. Limbaugh, Jr. (lawyer, b. 26-Feb-1918, d. 8-Dec-1990)
Mother: Mildred Carolyn Armstrong ("Millie", b. 13-Oct-1925, d. 2-Mar-2000)
Brother: David Scott Limbaugh (lawyer, conservative political columnist, b. 11-Dec-1952)
Wife: Roxy Maxine McNeely (office worker, m. 24-Sep-1977, div. 10-Jul-1980)
Wife: Michelle Sixta Wennerholm (stadium usher, m. 1983, sep. 1988, div. 1990)
Wife: Marta Maranda Fitzgerald (aerobics instructor, b. 1959, m. 27-May-1994, sep. 2004)
Girlfriend: Daryn Kagan (journalist, together 2004-06
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...more of this stuff pls just to educate this low uninformed proudly ignorant Nyani makopo!
 
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Nyani this is 4u......It's like these guys take pride in being ignorant."-BO
 
Nyani McCain said:
Stupi..................
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..no, it's NOT!! sikiliza hiyo, halafu then mgonge Keith Olbermann uuone anavyofafanua zaidi...!! dogo, acha ushabiki hii idea hata Nascar, AAA na watu kibao wenye authority ktk mambo ya energy wanaikubali.
 
YournameisMINE said:
..no, it's NOT!! sikiliza hiyo, halafu then mgonge Keith Olbermann uuone anavyofafanua zaidi...!! dogo, acha ushabiki hii idea hata Nascar, AAA na watu kibao wenye authority ktk mambo ya energy wanaikubali.
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Oh okay....I guess thats what I need to do to not pay $3.50/ gallon......I didn't know...thanks
 
Nyani, I guess, not only has your babu ceded the experience argument but no more Reverend Wright coming up soon:
A campaign spokesman, Michael Goldfarb, distances Sarah Palin from Jews for Jesus founder David Brickner, who suggested in a sermon two weeks ago - with Palin in attendance - that terrorism in Israel is God's "judgment of unbelief" on Jews.

Tapper:

McCain-Palin campaign spokesman Goldfarb said that Brickner "was a guest at the church who Gov. Palin did not know would be speaking, and she does not share the views he expressed. She and her family would not have been sitting in the pews of the church if those remarks were remotely typical."

The pastor, Larry Kroon, told me that Brickner had been to the church once before, and in his introduction described Brickner as "a leader of Jews for Jesus, a ministry that is out on the leading edge in a pressing, demanding area of witnessing and evangelism" and closed the sermon without giving any sense anybody had said anything out of line.
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Naomba Sarah Palin aendelee kubaki kwenye ticket, maana nimeona Palin bounce FOR OBAMA, hahahaaaa
 
Susuviri said:
Nyani, I guess, not only has your babu ceded the experience argument but no more Reverend Wright coming up soon:

Naomba Sarah Palin aendelee kubaki kwenye ticket, maana nimeona Palin bounce FOR OBAMA, hahahaaaa
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Agreed.............
 
YournameisMINE said:
.....wewe kumbe ni katoto!! ebu soma ulichoandika ujione ni jinsi gani ulivyo mpumbavu!!
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What happened to your insecurity blanket "Bwahahahaha"? I am guessing that my assessment of your username were pretty spot on. I think I will start calling you "YournameisMWIZI" as it correctly portrays what you do and who you are.
 
Jasusi said:
David Paul Kuhn Tue Sep 2, 6:46 PM ET


Barack Obama met the 50 percent threshold for the first time Tuesday in the Gallup daily tracking poll, a symbolic hurdle that until now had eluded the Democratic nominee.
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The Gallup daily tracking poll has found that since the conclusion of the Democratic convention, Obama has risen 5 percentage points in the polls and now leads John McCain 50 percent to 42 percent. That represents a positive turn for Obama, after a couple of days in which he appeared to have peaked at the 49 percent mark while McCain was showing slight improvements.
The survey indicates that Obama’s overall post-Democratic National Convention bounce now appears to be roughly at par with the norm of past conventions. Though smaller than several of the sizable bounces of recent decades, the new polling suggests that perhaps the Democratic convention bounce has yet to subside.
While an improvement from 49 percent to 50 percent is statistically insignificant, the 50 percent mark holds significance for a party seeking to win its first majority since 1976, when Jimmy Carter won with 50.1 percent.
Polling will likely remain in flux until early next week, after the conclusion of the Republican National Convention. On Saturday, Gallup reported Obama was ahead by 8 percentage points. By Monday, that lead had shrunk to 5 points. Today it returned to 8.
Obama and McCain were evenly split at 45 percent prior to the Democratic convention, according to Gallup. Should Obama maintain a 5-point bounce in the polls, that would meet the 5- to 6-point norm earned by a typical party nominee, by Gallup’s measure, since 1964.
That also means, however, that Obama’s historic acceptance speech before more than 80,000 people at Invesco Field in Denver Thursday night, a political event seen by about 40 million television viewers, has not vaulted him above the norm of past nominees.
But Obama now has his firmest political footing of the campaign, according to the polls. Daily tracking polls by Gallup and Rasmussen Reports demonstrate that Obama has taken his greatest lead since the beginning of the general election in June when Obama clinched the Democratic nomination.
Rasmussen also recorded an uptick in Obama’s standing on Tuesday, and he now leads McCain 51 percent to 45 percent.
CBS News reported Monday that Obama is ahead in its poll, 48 percent to 40 percent, a 3-point increase in Obama’s standing compared with its poll prior to the Democratic convention.
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The only way any poll would return 50% support for Obama is if it was conducted at the welfare line, prison, gay parade, public housing project, or any other non-mainstream America location. I am not saying Obama can't win (with the mass media fully behind him anything is possible), but these polls are pretty meaningless at this point. They only serve to influence the masses.

Important thing to note here is American presidential election is not a popularity contest. The winner doesn't neccesarily have to have more people voted for him. It is an electoral college contest. That's where Obama will hurt. He does not resonate with middle America. He insulted them by saying they cling to their guns and religions. These are who will decide the election. Obama had problem with this voting block during the primaries and I don't think he has improved anything.
 
US election: Conservative pundits caught criticising Palin

Two senior Republicans were unaware that microphones were still running after a TV interview

Elana Schor in Washington guardian.co.uk, Wednesday September 03 2008 23:15 BST

Two senior Republicans, unaware that microphones were still running after a TV interview, let loose today with harsh criticism of Sarah Palin as their party worked to defend its vice-presidential nominee.

A tape of the exchange between Republican strategist Mike Murphy - who worked for John McCain during the 2000 election - and conservative columnist Peggy Noonan quickly made the rounds on the internet, creating the latest in a series of Palin-related distractions.

When NBC news political director Chuck Todd asked rhetorically whether Palin is "the most qualified woman they could have turned to", the tape shows Noonan replying: "The most qualified? No! I think they went for this, excuse me, political bullshit about narratives."

She later added, "Every time the Republicans do that, because it's not where they live and it's not what they're good at, they blow it."

Noonan published a Wall Street Journal column earlier today that praised Palin as "powerful" and "a clear and present danger to the American left, and to the [Barack] Obama candidacy".

Murphy echoed Noonan's candid assessment, asking Todd on the live microphone, "You know what's really the worst thing about it? The greatness of McCain is no cynicism, and this is cynical."

The McCain campaign has stopped discussing the decision-making process that led to Palin's presence on the Republican ticket.

McCain advisers have accused the media of mounting a sexist campaign to discredit Palin, who served as a small-town mayor before her current 18-month service as Alaska governor.

But Murphy and Noonan were not the only Republicans to clash with McCain's message on Palin.

Meg Whitman, the national McCain campaign co-chairman, said today that she does not think media coverage of Palin has been sexist.

"I actually think it's completely fair for the media to vet Sarah Palin," Whitman told Fox news.
 
The Truth said:
What happened to your insecurity blanket "Bwahahahaha"? I am guessing that my assessment of your username were pretty spot on. I think I will start calling you "YournameisMWIZI" as it correctly portrays what you do and who you are.
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..bwahahahahahaha, assessment yako ilikuwa ni homerun, out of the ballpark, matter of fact kama ingekuwa ni San Fransisco basi mpira ungeokotwa kwa pacific huko, ingekuwa Boston basi labda "the green monster" pekeyake ndio ingesimamisha hahaha vinginevyo mpira ungeokotwa kwa Storrow Drive au I-90!! LOL...yaani umepatia kila kitu, lazima wewe utakuwa genius flani.

Mie nakubali jina jipya ulonipa, kwani nyie wahindi ndivyo mlivyo, kila mswahili nyie kwenu ni mwizi (wakati nyie ndio wezi)...lakini na mie pia nakupa jina jipya, kuanzia leo jina lako ni "The Lies."

Huyo CD Palin akimaliza njoo utupe stories hapa za pumba alizoongea. Bwahahahahahahahahaha, sasa kakojoe ukalale! OK?
 
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