Nyani Ngabu
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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.
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
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."If you don't stop lying about me, I'm going to have to start telling the truth about you."
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.
Sasa mtu mzima anaumbuliwa LIVE?!! KwikwikwiiiSenator 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.
Nyaniiii! My friend!! Tell Babu na watu wake waache kusema uongo maana wanazidi kuumbuka!
Sasa mtu mzima anaumbuliwa LIVE?!! Kwikwikwiii
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
Na huyu mume wake anaonekana kuwa na influence kubwa sana na anamtune vyema mke wake na remote control (not so subtle remote control!)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 governors 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.
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....
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?
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!
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