US Election Coverage 2008

[Nyani Ngabu]

More than 70% of Americans are not happy with the direction of their country. More than 75% no longer support Iraq's invasion and they would like to see the end of that unnecessary war asap. Americans' economy is underperfoming in many areas. Usually in many western countries when citizens are unhappy with the performance of the party in power, they always take necessary action on the ballot box to punish that party, but it seems this year many are not ready to see a black person in the WH. IMO, that is a big shame and it shows America has a long way to go before it can elect a president from another race, but I am still hopeful that voters will do the right thing to punish and remove Republicans from WH

No, they elect the best qualified candidate. You don't vote just to punish somebody. You vote for what is best for you and the country.

 

[Susuviri]

FMES: I think it depends what you look for and how you interpret it. Ed Koch is a conservative turned recently Obama supporter. Palia sijamwona na sina data yake, lakini naomba niseme hivi what we are actually seeing is a discussion within the Democratic party about tactic. Obama hata wakati wa primary alikataa kabisa kutengeneza TV spot inayom-attack Hillary ingawa yeye alitengeneza ad ya 3 am call. Now some Democrats especially akina Bill Clinton na timu yake they believe that Obama has to hit back hard etc. But Plouffe and others on the Obama team are resisting. So that discussion is ongoing and I think that the conclusion has been to getting somewhat dirty because the McCain camp are REALLY dirty. but also they are employing 527s to do their jobs like Planned Parenthood etc.
Mimi naona ile interview ya Charles Gibson na Kisura was actually detrimental to the McCain camp and Gibbson amesifiwa kwa kuwa strict na mama. Sasa ukisema alishindwa kumbana huyu mama I think we didn't watch the same interview and didn't read the same critics. Kila moja amekubali that she is very lightweight and was repeating talking points without understanding. saying stupid things like She can see Russia from Alaska as foreign policy credentials. Blinking and staring when asked about Bush doctrine. Even conservative critics have come out outraged how unprepared she is! Like Ross Douthat from The Atlantic, Kristen Soltis from The Next Right, Rich Lowrey from The National Review Online. wote wamelaumu kuwa Palin is not ready na kawaaibisha GOP ambayo siku zote strength yake in all elections was that they are national security and foreign policy experts. They have given up the argument na wamebaki na personality tu.
Unajua FMES mkuu wangu, I am trying to tell you that apart from kile unachosikia CNN and Fixed News na mainstream media there are many other things at work. I can't force you to see the glass half full when you believe that it is half empty, lakini naomba nikuhakikishie kwamba Obama is on the right path, na eventually atashinda, the path to victory is not easy and straightforward. Asante na wikiendi njema!

 

[Susuviri]

Great quote from Lincoln that Obama has use today for John McCain:

"If you don't stop lying about me, I'm going to have to start telling the truth about you."

And that is what Obama camp is doing now telling the truth how computerilliterate McCain, he has hired lobbyists who run the show for him, and showing how McCain voted 80% with Bush i.e. more of the same! Bado 527s ambao wamem-attack Palin on environment, abortion etc. Jamani the game is getting interesting.

 

[Susuviri]

FYI mku FMES:

The race between John McCain and Barack Obama, for all the talk of a post-convention Republican surge and Democratic jitters, remains pretty much where it was a month ago and mirrors the presidential contest four years ago.

The national polls, taking into account the margin of error, show voters split between the candidates, with fewer than one in 10 still undecided.

The big change is a newly energized Republican base after McCain selected Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as a running mate. Democratic enthusiasm for Obama and his vice presidential nominee, Delaware Senator Joe Biden, was already high.

The template for this year is the 2004 campaign between President George W. Bush and Massachusetts Senator John Kerry. Obama has the lead in blue states -- those won by Kerry last time, according to surveys taken after the nominating conventions. McCain has a lead in most red states. A notable exception is Ohio, where polls differ over who is ahead.

``The trial heat may indeed be close, but many of the key measurements on which elections turn suggest that the Obama situation is far from deteriorating,'' pollster Peter Hart says. ``Presidential elections often revolve around a gut decision about how Americans feel about the candidate.''

Top Democrats say that while the presidential race might be narrowing, they are maintaining leads in at least four House races with incumbent Republicans.

 

[Susuviri]

Nyaniiii! My friend!! Tell Babu na watu wake waache kusema uongo maana wanazidi kuumbuka!

Senator John McCain has drawn some of the biggest crowds of his presidential campaign since adding Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to his ticket on Aug. 29. Now officials say they can't substantiate the figures McCain's aides are claiming.
McCain aide Kimmie Lipscomb told reporters on Sept. 10 that an outdoor rally in Fairfax City, Virginia, drew 23,000 people, attributing the crowd estimate to a fire marshal.

Fairfax City Fire Marshal Andrew Wilson said his office did not supply that number to the campaign and could not confirm it. Wilson, in an interview, said the fire department does not monitor attendance at outdoor events.

In recent days, journalists attending the rallies have been raising questions about the crowd estimates with the campaign. In a story on Sept. 11 about Palin's attraction for some Virginia women voters, Washington Post reporter Marc Fisher estimated the crowd to be 8,000, not the 23,000 cited by the campaign.

The McCain campaign said 10,000 people showed up at the Consol Energy Arena in Washington, Pennsylvania, home of the Washington Wild Things baseball team.

The campaign attributed that estimate, and several that followed, to U.S. Secret Service figures, based on the number of people who passed through magnetometers.

``We didn't provide any numbers to the campaign,'' said Malcolm Wiley, a spokesman for the U.S. Secret Service. Wiley said he would not ``confirm or dispute'' the numbers the McCain campaign has given to reporters.

Sasa mtu mzima anaumbuliwa LIVE?!! Kwikwikwiii

 

[BAK]

Nyaniiii! My friend!! Tell Babu na watu wake waache kusema uongo maana wanazidi kuumbuka!

Sasa mtu mzima anaumbuliwa LIVE?!! Kwikwikwiii

Huyu Mcsame sasa hivi keshavuka mstari wa kusema uongo na hii ikiendelea itakuwa ni mbaya sana kwake na furaha kwa dunia. Maana vyombo vya habari vimeshaanza kumhoji kila anaposema uwongo kuhusu Obama, Kisura Palin au kuhusu sera zake. Akianza kuwa defensive katika wiki saba zilizobaki kutetea uwongo basi basi anaweza kumrahisishia kazi Obama. Dunia haiko tayari kuona Republicans wanaendelea kumiliki WH kwa miaka mingine minne maana ni hatari kubwa kwa uchumi na amani duniani.

 

[BAK]

No, they elect the best qualified candidate. You don't vote just to punish somebody. You vote for what is best for you and the country.

Okay 🙂 and what is best for America and the whole World is Obama and not Mcsame who voted more than 90% for Kichaka's policies and will inherit most if not all of the same bad policies.

 

[Susuviri]

Huyu Mcsame sasa hivi keshavuka mstari wa kusema uongo na hii ikiendelea itakuwa ni mbaya sana kwake na furaha kwa dunia. Maana vyombo vya habari vimeshaanza kumhoji kila anaposema uwongo kuhusu Obama, Kisura Palin au kuhusu sera zake. Akianza kuwa defensive katika wiki saba zilizobaki kutetea uwongo basi basi anaweza kumrahisishia kazi Obama. Dunia haiko tayari kuona Republicans wanaendelea kumiliki WH kwa miaka mingine minne maana ni hatari kubwa kwa uchumi na amani duniani.

Bubu, hata mimi nakubali wacha azidi kusema uongo wake! Unfortunately ile sehemu uliyosema Dunia haiko tayari kuona Rethugs wanamiliki White House has one huge obstacle. The world has no vote in the US elections. It is the moose hunting, pitbulls with lipsticks who have the right to vote. (Also the latte sipping geeks and white Middle America like Iowans). Fareed Zakaria alishasema itabidi one electoral wapewe Rest of the World in the electoral college! Hahaaa.
But I think that majority of Americans pia wamechoka na Bush and his gang and their incompetence.

 

[Susuviri]

Okay 🙂 and what is best for America and the whole World is Obama and not Mcsame who voted more than 90% for Kichaka's policies and will inherit most if not all of the same bad policies.

Bubu, Nyani has vested interest in this election maana babu yake asiposhinda he cannot run again in 4 years time Labda Kisura but I have a feeling she will be lost entirely from the poltical radar once the Troopergate investigations are over.

 

[BAK]

Bubu, Nyani has vested interest in this election maana babu yake asiposhinda he cannot run again in 4 years time Labda Kisura but I have a feeling she will be lost entirely from the poltical radar once the Troopergate investigations are over.

Susuviri, Kisura na Babu yake wakipigwa mweleka na Obama sidhani kama Kisura ana ubavu wa kupambana na mikiki ya kuwania nafasi ya mgombea wa Republicans 2012. Atarudi Alaska kulea wajukuu maana binti kishapewa go ahead ya kutengeneza watoto.

 

[Susuviri]

Susuviri, Kisura na Babu yake wakipigwa mweleka na Obama sidhani kama Kisura ana ubavu wa kupambana na mikiki ya kuwania nafasi ya mgombea wa Republicans 2012. Atarudi Alaska kulea wajukuu maana binti kishapewa go ahead ya kutengeneza watoto.

Actually kuna theory nilisikia kwamba akina Mitt Romney ahawakutaka kuwa on the same ticket as Babu maana waliona tayari kwamba ni soo. nina uhakika in 2012 Romney atakuwa in the run! Na labda GOP watapata some better people than Dubya na huyu Babu mafix!
Have you heard the latest? Hawa Rethugs wamezid kusema uongo sasa media imewachoka na imeanza kuwapa vipande vyao. Now Palin camp admits hakutembelea Iraq kama walivyodai in the beginning! Hahaaa it's getting better all the time. Ile ya Ireland was a stop over! So actully she was in Kuwait and Germany (on army bases!) Proudly incurious - as The Economist pointed out!

 

[BAK]

Actually kuna theory nilisikia kwamba akina Mitt Romney ahawakutaka kuwa on the same ticket as Babu maana waliona tayari kwamba ni soo. nina uhakika in 2012 Romney atakuwa in the run! Na labda GOP watapata some better people than Dubya na huyu Babu mafix!
Have you heard the latest? Hawa Rethugs wamezid kusema uongo sasa media imewachoka na imeanza kuwapa vipande vyao. Now Palin camp admits hakutembelea Iraq kama walivyodai in the beginning! Hahaaa it's getting better all the time. Ile ya Ireland was a stop over! So actully she was in Kuwait and Germany (on army bases!) Proudly incurious - as The Economist pointed out!

Kisura anaumbuka kila kukicha. Mpaka hiyo November 4th watakuwa wamemwacha mtupu si ajabu hata huko Alaska wakamuomba ajiuzulu kabla ya muda wake.

 

[Nyani Ngabu]

Okay 🙂 and what is best for America and the whole World is Obama and not Mcsame who voted more than 90% for Kichaka's policies and will inherit most if not all of the same bad policies.

That's your opinion and you are entitled to it as others are entitled to theirs. You can't impose your opinion on others.

 

[Susuviri]

There's also an interesting article in New York Times that gives insight to Palin's modus operandi, very interesting and very devastating for GOP! I think the independent voters will take a second look at her much more closely! Especially about cronyism reminds everyone one of.... DUBYA and Darth Vader aka Cheney. Read it here is a taste of the article

WASILLA, Alaska — Gov. Sarah Palin lives by the maxim that all politics is local, not to mention personal.

So when there was a vacancy at the top of the State Division of Agriculture, she appointed a high school classmate, Franci Havemeister, to the $95,000-a-year directorship. A former real estate agent, Ms. Havemeister cited her childhood love of cows as one of her qualifications for running the roughly $2 million agency.

Ms. Havemeister was one of at least five schoolmates Ms. Palin hired, often at salaries far exceeding their private sector wages.

When Ms. Palin had to cut her first state budget, she avoided the legion of frustrated legislators and mayors. Instead, she huddled with her budget director and her husband, Todd, an oil field worker who is not a state employee, and vetoed millions of dollars of legislative projects.

And four months ago, a Wasilla blogger, Sherry Whitstine, who chronicles the governor’s career with an astringent eye, answered her phone to hear an assistant to the governor on the line, she said.

“You should be ashamed!” Ivy Frye, the assistant, told her. “Stop blogging. Stop blogging right now!”

Ms. Palin walks the national stage as a small-town foe of “good old boy” politics and a champion of ethics reform. The charismatic 44-year-old governor draws enthusiastic audiences and high approval ratings. And as the Republican vice-presidential nominee, she points to her management experience while deriding her Democratic rivals, Senators Barack Obama and Joseph R. Biden Jr., as speechmakers who never have run anything.

But an examination of her swift rise and record as mayor of Wasilla and then governor finds that her visceral style and penchant for attacking critics — she sometimes calls local opponents “haters” — contrasts with her carefully crafted public image.

Throughout her political career, she has pursued vendettas, fired officials who crossed her and sometimes blurred the line between government and personal grievance, according to a review of public records and interviews with 60 Republican and Democratic legislators and local officials.

Na huyu mume wake anaonekana kuwa na influence kubwa sana na anamtune vyema mke wake na remote control (not so subtle remote control!)

 

[Nyani Ngabu]

There's also an interesting article in New York Times that gives insight to Palin's modus operandi, very interesting and very devastating for GOP! I think the independent voters will take a second look at her much more closely! Especially about cronyism reminds everyone one of.... DUBYA and Darth Vader aka Cheney. Read it here is a taste of the article

Na huyu mume wake anaonekana kuwa na influence kubwa sana na anamtune vyema mke wake na remote control (not so subtle remote control!)

Oh no!! This it...it's over for McCain - Palin....

 

[Rev. Kishoka]

Oh no!! This it...it's over for McCain - Palin....

Nyani,

I am not sure if you are being sarcastict here or you really sense danger!

Ukisoma hiyo article ya NYT, Palin is just like Darth Vaader Dick Cheney, secrecy, cronysm and more!

 

[Rev. Kishoka]

I have to take my hat off Mzee Gasolina Makopo kwa kumchagua Palin!

Makopo has manage for the past 2 weeks to divert the attention from him and the association to Bush to Media and Pundits obsession with Palin.

While everyone is focusing on Palin and her demerits, McCain is cruising under the radar and democratgic message on Change, Economy and Anti-Bush is evaporating in thin air!

If Media could get it's s h i t together, McCain surge will slow

By the way Nyani, uliona ile orgy ya the View dhidi ya Makopo na Bibi yako?

 

[DAR si LAMU]

I have to take my hat off Mzee Gasolina Makopo kwa kumchagua Palin!

Makopo has manage for the past 2 weeks to divert the attention from him and the association to Bush to Media and Pundits obsession with Palin.

While everyone is focusing on Palin and her demerits, McCain is cruising under the radar and democratic message on Change, Economy and Anti-Bush is evaporating in thin air!

If Media could get it's shit together, McCain surge will slow

By the way Nyani, uliona ile orgy ya the View dhidi ya Makopo na Bibi yako?

..it's slowing down.

..wangekuwa wajanja zaidi wange-bank kwenye umaarufu wa ghafla wa palin kutoa mashambulizi ya sera na si ads chafu. halafu wasinge-whine kuhusu pigs and lipstick. wangewadharau dems kwa maneno cheap.

..wangehitaji pia kumweka sawa huyo mama yao awe na substance zaidi ya kuamini vita ndiyo inayo-solve kila kitu na ni mapenzi ya mungu.

..unajua, pamoja na kuwa upande wa dems [b'se bush has messed up big time,and this is threatening to bring down the world economy,of which i do mind big time] sijali sana nani anakuwa POTUS. marekani itaendelea kuwa nchi binafsi siku zote,no matter who is in control.

..point is, gop hawa wakishika basi mambo ndio yatakuwa hovyo kabisa. hasa huyo mama, bora hata babu. yani itakuwa balaa tupu.

..i'm watching!

 

[DAR si LAMU]

Actually kuna theory nilisikia kwamba akina Mitt Romney ahawakutaka kuwa on the same ticket as Babu maana waliona tayari kwamba ni soo. nina uhakika in 2012 Romney atakuwa in the run! Na labda GOP watapata some better people than Dubya na huyu Babu mafix!
Have you heard the latest? Hawa Rethugs wamezid kusema uongo sasa media imewachoka na imeanza kuwapa vipande vyao. Now Palin camp admits hakutembelea Iraq kama walivyodai in the beginning! Hahaaa it's getting better all the time. Ile ya Ireland was a stop over! So actully she was in Kuwait and Germany (on army bases!) Proudly incurious - as The Economist pointed out!

..hii inanikumbusha madai ya kuwepo kwa weapons of mass destruction in iraq, so the base for the war.

..uongo ndio mtaji wao. uzuri wake ni kwamba hao wanaopiga kura hawana tofauti na watanganyika wenzao.

 

[DAR si LAMU]

More than 70% of Americans are not happy with the direction of their country. More than 75% no longer support Iraq's invasion and they would like to see the end of that unnecessary war asap. Americans' economy is underperfoming in many areas. Usually in many western countries when citizens are unhappy with the performance of the party in power, they always take necessary action on the ballot box to punish that party, but it seems this year many are not ready to see a black person in the WH. IMO, that is a big shame and it shows America has a long way to go before it can elect a president from another race, but I am still hopeful that voters will do the right thing to punish and remove Republicans from WH

..bubu,

..well said, what a shame!