US Election Coverage 2008

Tusubiri leo Joe Biden atasema nini gaffe-wise....

The Note: Amid Silliness, Races Takes a Pause

Cue the serial condemnations: It's unfair, dirty, nasty, despicable politics. We all hate it, and it has no place in a presidential campaign.

It also just might work.

Team McCain is in over-the-top outrage mode -- shocked, offended, and aghast at the sexism, ageism, fill-in-the-blank-ism being directed at John McCain and Sarah Palin, real and (more than slightly) imagined.

Good luck keeping track of all the indignities (and the McCain campaign would prefer that you didn't try to keep score).

"Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign launched a broadside against Sen. Barack Obama yesterday, accusing him of a sexist smear, comparing his campaign to a pack of wolves on the prowl against the GOP vice presidential pick, charging that the Democratic nominee favored sex education for kindergartners, and resurrecting the comments of the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.," Jonathan Weisman and Peter Slevin write in The Washington Post.

McCain seems content to have the race focus on personality and process -- not, heavens forbid, actual real issues. "Another day. Another roll in the mud," writes the New York Daily News' Michael Saul.

By making discredited and untrue claims about Obama -- and pretending that outrageous, offensive things are being widely circulated about Palin by the Obama campaign -- Team McCain is pushing the limits of its claim to an open, honest, positive campaign.

"I just can't wait for the moment when John McCain -- contrite and suddenly honorable again in victory or defeat -- talks about how things got a little out of control in the passion of the moment," Time's Joe Klein writes. "Talk about putting lipstick on a pig."

"Tactically, it is clear, and it has been frequently noted, that McCain learned well the lessons from his last run in 2000," ABC's Andy Fies writes. "McCain may want to keep Bush at a distance . . . but not his tactics."

"McCain's campaign called Obama's ‘disturbing,' ‘desperate,' ‘offensive,' and ‘disgraceful.' Obama's campaign fired back with ‘pathetic, ‘perverse,' ‘dishonorable,' and ‘shameful,' " The Boston Globe's Scott Helman reports. "Though McCain has more often been the aggressor, the back-and-forth -- to borrow a recent McCain campaign description of Obama running mate Joe Biden -- has reached ‘a new low.'

The Note: Amid Silliness, Races Takes a Pause

Cue the serial condemnations: It’s unfair, dirty, nasty, despicable politics. We all hate it, and it has no place in a presidential campaign.

It also just might work.

Team McCain is in over-the-top outrage mode -- shocked, offended, and aghast at the sexism, ageism, fill-in-the-blank-ism being directed at John McCain and Sarah Palin, real and (more than slightly) imagined.

Good luck keeping track of all the indignities (and the McCain campaign would prefer that you didn’t try to keep score).

“Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign launched a broadside against Sen. Barack Obama yesterday, accusing him of a sexist smear, comparing his campaign to a pack of wolves on the prowl against the GOP vice presidential pick, charging that the Democratic nominee favored sex education for kindergartners, and resurrecting the comments of the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.,” Jonathan Weisman and Peter Slevin write in The Washington Post.

McCain seems content to have the race focus on personality and process -- not, heavens forbid, actual real issues. “Another day. Another roll in the mud,” writes the New York Daily News’ Michael Saul.

By making discredited and untrue claims about Obama -- and pretending that outrageous, offensive things are being widely circulated about Palin by the Obama campaign -- Team McCain is pushing the limits of its claim to an open, honest, positive campaign.

“I just can't wait for the moment when John McCain -- contrite and suddenly honorable again in victory or defeat -- talks about how things got a little out of control in the passion of the moment,” Time’s Joe Klein writes. “Talk about putting lipstick on a pig.”

“Tactically, it is clear, and it has been frequently noted, that McCain learned well the lessons from his last run in 2000,” ABC’s Andy Fies writes. “McCain may want to keep Bush at a distance . . . but not his tactics.”

“McCain's campaign called Obama's ‘disturbing,’ ‘desperate,’ ‘offensive,’ and ‘disgraceful.’ Obama's campaign fired back with ‘pathetic, ‘perverse,’ ‘dishonorable,’ and ‘shameful,’ ” The Boston Globe’s Scott Helman reports. “Though McCain has more often been the aggressor, the back-and-forth -- to borrow a recent McCain campaign description of Obama running mate Joe Biden -- has reached ‘a new low.’

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WELL.........BUT IT ONLY TOOK OBAMA 2 YEARS IN THE SENATE TO SEE THAT THE THE COUNTRY WAS IN BAD SHAPE AND IT TOOK McCAIN WHAT 23 YEARS TO FIGURE IT OUT.

Nyambala said:

WELL.........BUT IT ONLY TOOK OBAMA 2 YEARS IN THE SENATE TO SEE THAT THE THE COUNTRY WAS IN BAD SHAPE AND IT TOOK McCAIN WHAT 23 YEARS TO FIGURE IT OUT.

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It's not as bad you guys want everybody to believe. Geeez...if it was that bad, how come people still want to come here? You yourself are still here...why not go back to your country then? Puh-lease...give me a break...

Bubu ataka kusema said:

SV, mimi nasema kweli tu. Sasa hivi kuna tofauti kubwa katika kampeni za McSame Na Obama. Kwa McSame yaani unaona watu walivyokuwa na motisha wa kutisha tofauti kati ya sasa na kabla ya Convention yao ni kama usiku na mchana, kwenye kampeni za Obama nako unaona watu wamenywea. Hata political analysts wanasema hivyo kwamba ndani ya chama cha Democratics watu wameanza kuhoji kama watairudisha WH chini ya miliki yao na halafu VP anaposema chaguo zuri lilikuwa ni Hillary na siyo yeye basi hali ndiyo inazidi kuwa mbaya. Tusubiri siku 54 ni nyingi mno kwenye uchaguzi, chochote kinaweza kutokea lakini ukweli ni kwamba kwa sasa hivi mambo si mazuri kwa Obama. Kumbuka pia nilisema hapa JF kwamba amefanya makosa kumchagua Biden hata kabla ya opinion polls hazijaanza kwenda kombo kwa Obama.

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Bubu, I appreciate you honesty, na hata Nyani anajua pamoja na ushabiki wote, lakini mwisho wa siku this is politics, no hard feelings, mkuu.
Ila naomba niseme kuwa the most important ni kwamba so many things can happen. Mimi nadhani kuna panic hapa in the Democratic ranks except for the Obama hard core team who have insight to the campaign. Sasa watu hawajui kinachoendelea and kila moja anataka ghafla kuwa campaign manager.
I am not an insider either so I will not pretend that I know, but taking cue from the primaries, nadhani Obama's team is rapid response team. They learn fast from their mistakes. Ndo maana nilisema hii lunch ya Obama na Clinton leo ambapo walikubali cease fire na Rethugs, si bure.

The assault came a day before the seventh anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, when McCain and Obama are scheduled to appear together at Ground Zero during a mutually declared truce. That cease-fire is not likely to last long. With the airwaves already filling up with some of the most negative imagery of the campaign, Obama aides hinted that they would save their toughest counterpunch until after Sept. 11.

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Tumalize Sept 11th respecting the dead of the terrorist attack and then tomorrow is another day!

Nyani!!!! Mbona Bill O'Reilly amemponda Babu aka Mzee wa Gasolina na Pitbull with Lipstick????

Bill O'Reilly led off tonight's episode of The Factor with a pointed critique of the latest small-minded content of the news cycle, criticizing the McCain campaign both in terms of character and tactics, slagging the media for pressing the story senselessly, and largely absolving Obama - though perhaps with faint praise: his "Obama doesn't like confrontation" statement seems out of joint with last week's insistence that the Illinois Senator was "tough" and "not a wimp."

Nevertheless, O'Reilly very clearly stipulated that there was no evidence that Obama intended to make any sort of sexist remark.

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Has Obama charmed O'Reilly?????? Kwikwikwiii

Susuviri said:

Nyani!!!! Mbona Bill O'Reilly amemponda Babu aka Mzee wa Gasolina na Pitbull with Lipstick????

Has Obama charmed O'Reilly?????? Kwikwikwiii

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Where have you been? Don't you know that Bill O claims to be "independent"...I don't believe him but that's what he says.....so tries to put on this facade that he is an independent by criticizing both parties equally....

But I still think he's a right winger....

Nyani McCain said:

Where have you been? Don't you know that Bill O claims to be "independent"...I don't believe him but that's what he says.....so tries to put on this facade that he is an independent by criticizing both parties equally....

But I still think he's a right winger....

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Mi nadhani waliwasha ile big bang collider under the earth jana na ime-create a paralell universe!! Hahaaaa! We, mjukuu wake McCain, si ulisema unamhusudu sana O'Reily na huwa anasema ukweli, sasa leo unamruka?

Susuviri said:

Mi nadhani waliwasha ile big bang collider under the earth jana na ime-create a paralell universe!! Hahaaaa! We, mjukuu wake McCain, si ulisema unamhusudu sana O'Reily na huwa anasema ukweli, sasa leo unamruka?

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Nah...I'm a ditto head...huge Rush Limbaugh fan, huge Sean Hannity fan....O'reilly...so-so.....

Is Hillary more qualified than Biden to be VP?

Nyani McCain said:

Nah...I'm a ditto head...huge Rush Limbaugh fan, huge Sean Hannity fan....O'reilly...so-so.....

Is Hillary more qualified than Biden to be VP?

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Ishu hii nimeaddress above. Ie about Biden - HIllary, sitaki kurudiarudia. Lakini nilitaka kukwambia in the spirit of 9/11 and brotherhood, I condemn what my fellow Obama supporters did to you Babu yesterday:

PHILADELPHIA - Republican presidential candidate John McCain cut short his first public appearance without running-mate Sarah Palin after chanting supporters of Democratic rival Barack Obama interrupted his speech.

After lunching with a roundtable of women at Philadelphia’s Down Home Diner, McCain shook hands with supporters and strode up to a podium to deliver a statement. But as he spoke, chants of “Obama, Obama, Obama” filled the room.

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Poleni sana! that was uncalled for na Babu yako alionewa kwa kweli!

Susuviri said:

Ishu hii nimeaddress above. Ie about Biden - HIllary, sitaki kurudiarudia. Lakini nilitaka kukwambia in the spirit of 9/11 and brotherhood, I condemn what my fellow Obama supporters did to you Babu yesterday:


Poleni sana! that was uncalled for na Babu yako alionewa kwa kweli!

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Hamna ustaarabu nyie....ndio maana huwaga mnashindwa chaguzi za uraisi...

Nyani McCain said:

Hamna ustaarabu nyie....ndio maana huwaga mnashindwa chaguzi za uraisi...

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Duh mkuu, leo hasira za nini? Mi naendeleakurespect ceasefire, maana ndo nimeshtuka kumbe 9/11 hiyo. Kwa hiyo PEACE, mkuu. Leo namfagilia tu Obama, simpondi Babu yako na mwenza wake.

mchongoma said:

...ni Coincidence au pre-planned?

...leo ni 9/11 memorial, tunaonyeshwa Unseen footage ya POW Maccain, kwenye all major Tv stations worlwide.

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Sorry, sijakuelewa.....

Susuviri said:

Duh mkuu, leo hasira za nini? Mi naendeleakurespect ceasefire, maana ndo nimeshtuka kumbe 9/11 hiyo. Kwa hiyo PEACE, mkuu. Leo namfagilia tu Obama, simpondi Babu yako na mwenza wake.

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Vipi gaffe ya Biden....gaffe-o-meter yetu iko off the charts.....

Halafu gaffe radar yangu inaniambia atatoa ingine katika siku 2 zijazo.....lol

Nyani McCain said:

Vipi gaffe ya Biden....gaffe-o-meter yetu iko off the charts.....

Halafu gaffe radar yangu inaniambia atatoa ingine katika siku 2 zijazo.....lol

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Leo nakupa thanks na hai kibao, ili ujue niko katika ceasefire! kwikwikwi

A picture tells a thousand words, so its been said...hebu angalia jinsi babu wa kizungu alivyo red all over his pale skinned face huku mishipa imemtoka utadhani anavuta pumzi yake ya mwisho duniani! Ama kweli huyu kizee wa watu hawezi kabisa ku-survive a whole term in office.

Still he is better looking than your three sons and yourself....kwikwikwiiiiiii