US Election Coverage 2008

[Susuviri]

Fireworks only on the screen not live kama kwa Obama!!!! kwikwikwikwiii 😀 I am only in bed maana nilikuwa na sumbuliwa na usingizi but I wanted to return the courtesy to my dear friend Nyani.... drill here and now, good night and good luck

 

[Nyani Ngabu]

Nyani hamna choreography na ile flag in teh background inawafanya waonekana kama sisimizi!! nasubiri confetti na balloons

Hahahahahahaaaa.....haya umeziona confetti na baloons? Umefurahi sasa?

 

[Nyambala]

This is one of the most boring acceptance speeches in history!!!!!!!!!

 

[Icadon]

jamani mimi naomba huyu Sarah Palini aendelee kutukana tuu maana the more matusi the more money Ching Ching

Barack Obama's campaign for president has raised $10 million since Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin spoke Wednesday night, the campaign announced, calling it a "one-day record."

Palin, the governor of Alaska, launched harsh attacks on Obama, accusing him of being two-faced and a political lightweight with no significant legislative accomplishments.

"Coverage of the Palin attacks on the news this evening just pushed us over $10 million," Obama spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in an e-mail to reporters Wednesday night.

The Republican Party announced earlier in the day it had raised $1 million in the wake of Palin's speech.

 

[Koba]

...damn,kama hii speech ndio angekuwa ametoa Obama tungekuwa tunasubiri inauguration ya MCbush na Pundits wanajaribu kuwa nice kwa babu makopo maana anatia huruma tuu!

 

[Rev. Kishoka]

Talk about community organizer..

Commentary: GOP shouldn't knock community organizers

• <LI class=cnnhiliteheader>Story Highlights
• Roland Martin: Republicans are emphasizing the theme of "country first"
• Martin: Wednesday night's speeches took jabs at community organizers
• Yet civil rights activists and other organizers have accomplished a lot, he says
• Martin: GOP should beware of deriding organizers who can get out the vote

By Roland Martin
CNN Contributor
Editor's Note: Roland S. Martin, a nationally syndicated columnist and Chicago-based radio host, is the author of "Listening to the Spirit Within: 50 Perspectives on Faith" and "Speak, Brother! A Black Man's View of America." Please visit his Web site.
(CNN) -- The Republicans have made it clear where their focus is this week with their convention slogan, "Country First."
With the abundance of flags, chants of "U.S.A., U.S.A." and tributes to those in the military, they have been laying it on thick.
Sen. John McCain has often talked about the need for Americans to dedicate themselves to service, namely military, and he is on the money.
But a line of attack that was used consistently last night by former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, and later by Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, tried to call into question whether community organizers put their country first.
Palin focused on the issue, mainly to criticize the Obama campaign for offering up his community organizing work opposite her experience as mayor.
But when you examine Giuliani's dismissive tone -- and the subsequent laughter by the Republicans in the XCel Energy Center -- regarding the community organizer jabs, the Democrats could have an opening.
After praising Palin's speech, I said as much, and that they can expect the Obama-Biden camp to seize on that point. This morning, I read an e-mail from Obama campaign manager David Plouffe, who incorporated the community organizer argument into a fundraising appeal.
Republican operatives I talked to said the lines were brilliant and that community organizers don't play to the GOP's strength.
I disagree. And so do the many folks who have sent me angry e-mails. They include white Republicans, black Democrats, people from Small Town, U.S.A., and Big City, America.
At a time when Americans are losing their homes to foreclosure, folks are trying to get by after layoffs, people are struggling with lack of healthcare, and we're facing pressing environmental issues, it's ludicrous to slam the little man and woman who isn't asking the government for handouts, but is doing what they can to make their neighborhood and city better.
I think of my parents. As a child growing up in the Clinton Park neighborhood in Houston, Texas, my parents were just regular folks trying to raise their five children (sounds like Gov. Sarah Palin). They were always present at our local elementary school (sounds like Gov. Sarah Palin) and were heavily involved in our church.
But our neighborhood was dying. Drugs were ravaging it. Older homeowners were dying and their children didn't want to live there, so they began renting to people who really didn't care. We saw abandoned homes, weeded lots, no sidewalks, a park falling into disrepair, and a senior citizen center shuttered.
So they joined several others neighbors and decided to form a civic club. Others called them crazy for trying to advance their ideas, but they didn't give up.
They enlisted their children in passing out flyers and putting up signs, notifying folks of the monthly meetings. A few folks showed up, but they kept going.
And going. And going. And going.
After months, and then years, we began to see progress: Stepped up police patrols and crack houses raided by the Houston police, DEA and FBI. Abandoned houses torn down. Weeded lots cut. More heavy trash pickup days. New streetlights. New sidewalks. New sewer pipes. A refurbished park.
Bottom line, these average, low- to middle-income people didn't have political power. They focused on people power. They organized a community to take action. iReport.com: Is Palin really ready to start an experience debate?
So when Rudy Giuliani and Palin mock community organizers, they don't just toss a barb at Sen. Barack Obama, they demean Reginald and Emelda Martin. They degrade the women who fought for their rights. They disrespect the labor activists and immigrant worker activists like Cesar Chavez.
They dismiss those in the civil rights movement -- folks from small town America who were sick and tired of being sick and tired. They thumb their noses at the Nelson Mandelas of the world who want a better life for their children.
It would have been perfectly fine for Giuliani and Palin to say that Obama's community organizing days didn't amount to enough experience to be president.
But when you openly laugh and mock those hard-working Americans who are in the trenches every day, then you really don't care about "Country First" or service.
Will this be a major deal or a ripple? Likely the latter. But the one thing I know about community organizers is that they know how to organize communities. And if the McCain-Palin ticket wants to win, they best not slap those folks they need for voter registration drives and systems to get folks to the polls.
Community organizers are always told they can't do something or are dismissed as meaningless.
Yet they often have the last laugh.
Rudy Giuliani, Sarah Palin and John McCain might want to remember that.

 

[Rev. Kishoka]

"City of Wasilla Alaska it so small, there are no professional hookers, it has volunteers" David Letterman!

 

[Rev. Kishoka]

My dear friend Nyani,

Where was the Reagan firepower? the speech might have been nice and have substance, but the deliverance was utterly poor! No wonderhe sounded boring and people were dozing!

 

[Susuviri]

Nyani nimetumiwa hii picha!!!
"We will help Illi...ill...illiterate people read" - JOhn McCain, acceptance speech 2008.
My dear friend, charity starts at home, teach your supporter to SPELL

 

[Susuviri]

My dear friend Nyani,

Where was the Reagan firepower? the speech might have been nice and have substance, but the deliverance was utterly poor! No wonderhe sounded boring and people were dozing!

Nyani WAKE UP!!!! Fight! Fight!!
Rev. nadhani our dear friend Nyani amelala!! Unajua alipomaliza speech babu usingizi olepole ulififia kumbe ile speech ilikuwa kama lullaby! 😀

 

[Susuviri]

Koba, REv. YNIM, Nyambala, ile nyumba in the bacground of Babu's speech ni ya nani? naona Nyani kalala!

 

[The Truth]

Unajua, put aside ushabiki, I think Paulina is much better than Babu Makopo! She may be a light weight, but she impressed last night with few things as a political analyst!

Her audience was the right audience the middle American, blue colar and average joes and unfortunatelly for us camp Obama, it is an audience that Obama is severely struggling to capture.

She spoke of something it is easily absorbed by this group who sometimes I wonder if what they care is simply about them and not about their neighbor!

If the elections were about vice presidents, she could have pulled an upset, however these scandals that are now emerging to the suprise of McCain himself, will cost their ticket!

The irony here is all the "scandals" the democrats and the mass media uncover about Sarah Palin tend to be things that make her more endearing to her supporters. That tells me that democrats and the mass American media are out of touch with mainstream America.

Back to Obama and why he does not seem to gain track with middle America. The obvious answer would be his race but I do not think that is the main reason. The problem is Obama has NOTHING in common with these people. Not his background and certainly not how he lives. Even though George Bush came from a privileged background, he was viewed by this voting block as someone they can identify with. Someone they could sit down and drink a beer with. Not Obama. He does not have this appeal because it is not who he is. No matter how hard he tries to appeal to this base he comes of as a phony because he insults them by saying they are clinging to their guns and religion.

 

[Steve Dii]

The irony here is all the "scandals" the democrats and the mass media uncover about Sarah Palin tend to be things that make her more endearing to her supporters. That tells me that democrats and the mass American media are out of touch with mainstream America.

Back to Obama and why he does not seem to gain track with middle America. The obvious answer would be his race but I do not think that is the main reason. The problem is Obama has NOTHING in common with these people. Not his background and certainly not how he lives. Even though George Bush came from a privileged background, he was viewed by this voting block as someone they can identify with. Someone they could sit down and drink a beer with. Not Obama. He does not have this appeal because it is not who he is. No matter how hard he tries to appeal to this base he comes of as a phony because he insults them by saying they are clinging to their guns and religion.

....The Truth, hiyo ilikuwa metaphor. And what will you say pale Palin aliposema kuwa vita vya Iraq ni vita kutoka 'mbiguni?'

....btw, who are the mainstream Americans in the current political turmoil?

 

[The Truth]

Talk about community organizer..

I think if you were applying to a school or writing a resume/CV for a job, community organizer would listed under "extracurricula activies" not under work experience. It is something people do on the side to serve others (nothing to diminish the title of a community organize) but you can't seriously compare that to being a governor or any other real job for that matter.

 

[Icadon]

The irony here is all the "scandals" the democrats and the mass media uncover about Sarah Palin tend to be things that make her more endearing to her supporters. That tells me that democrats and the mass American media are out of touch with mainstream America.

Back to Obama and why he does not seem to gain track with middle America. The obvious answer would be his race but I do not think that is the main reason. The problem is Obama has NOTHING in common with these people. Not his background and certainly not how he lives. Even though George Bush came from a privileged background, he was viewed by this voting block as someone they can identify with. Someone they could sit down and drink a beer with. Not Obama. He does not have this appeal because it is not who he is. No matter how hard he tries to appeal to this base he comes of as a phony because he insults them by saying they are clinging to their guns and religion.

Jibu la upuuzi wako hili hapa


Barack Obama's campaign for president has raised $10 million since Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin spoke Wednesday night, the campaign announced, calling it a "one-day record."

 

[The Truth]

....The Truth, hiyo ilikuwa metaphor. And what will you say pale Palin aliposema kuwa vita vya Iraq ni vita kutoka 'mbiguni?'

Are you asking what do I personally think of her statement about the Iraq war or what will the political ramifications of that statement?

....btw, who are the mainstream Americans in the current political turmoil?

Mainstream Americans aren't defined just by their politics. It is their values, they way of life, their views of life in general, where they live that define.

 

[YNIM]

Koba, REv. YNIM, Nyambala, ile nyumba in the bacground of Babu's speech ni ya nani? naona Nyani kalala!

mie sikuangalia speeches za Palin wala Makopo..sipendi GOP kupita kiasi! Wakati Makopo lina ongea mie nilikuwa naangali Frasier.....

 

[The Truth]

Jibu la upuuzi wako hili hapa


Barack Obama's campaign for president has raised $10 million since Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin spoke Wednesday night, the campaign announced, calling it a "one-day record."

I think that means Sarah Palin has irritated enough liberal Democrat bowel movements in one speech to a point they are digging deeper in their pockets for Obama. I am not sure if Obama has attracted new supporters to give him $10 million or rather it his usual supporters digging deeper in their pockets. Either way Palin's speech seems to have given a major case of diarrhea.

 

[Steve Dii]

Are you asking what do I personally think of her statement about the Iraq war or what will the political ramifications of that statement?

....ndiyo, kama unaweza ukajibu fanya hivyo tafadhali.

Mainstream Americans aren't defined just by their politics. It is their values, they way of life, their views of life in general, where they live that define.

.....can time and population determine who is mainstream American? if so, who are the currently mainstream Americans?

 

[Rev. Kishoka]

The irony here is all the "scandals" the democrats and the mass media uncover about Sarah Palin tend to be things that make her more endearing to her supporters. That tells me that democrats and the mass American media are out of touch with mainstream America.

Back to Obama and why he does not seem to gain track with middle America. The obvious answer would be his race but I do not think that is the main reason. The problem is Obama has NOTHING in common with these people. Not his background and certainly not how he lives. Even though George Bush came from a privileged background, he was viewed by this voting block as someone they can identify with. Someone they could sit down and drink a beer with. Not Obama. He does not have this appeal because it is not who he is. No matter how hard he tries to appeal to this base he comes of as a phony because he insults them by saying they are clinging to their guns and religion.

Raj Patel the Condor Dragon,

I will have to be objective and agree with you on this.

To be fair, I think sometimes the Democrats forgets the roots and their backgrounds as soon as they cross the negro/redneck/blue colar threshold.

Once they are on the other side of the river, they become super elitist and it is hard for them to identify themselves with their ancestry and tradition.

Classic example on this was Al Gore and John Kerry who are whites! Same syndrome seems to approach Obama, being a highly educated, outspoken but also has cross the common man threshold.

The unfortunate of Democrats, bill Clinton pulled a stunner because Bush the Daddy screwed up and Dole was weak (or was also weakened by Ross). Until the Democrast can start resemble the lower middle class, rural America which carries a bulk of votes, things will always go against them as an Institution and Political party and not individual candidate!