US Election Coverage 2008

[Susuviri]

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I wonder if that is true, maana huyu McCain ameshafanya gaffe nyingi sana lakini media imekuwa ikimsamehe wanajua bado ni yule Maverick wa 2000. Lakini slowly wameanza kuamka.
Alafu umesikia on CNN jinsi McCain alivyom-throw under the bus Carly Fiorna kwa ajili ya comment zake?

"Top McCain-Palin official Carly Fiorina is facing criticism from some within the campaign for a day of what they call 'very Biden-like' comments," CNN reports, "after the former Hewlett-Packard CEO told two separate interviewers that neither member of the Republican ticket would be capable of running a company."

Indeed, the daggers seemed out for Fiorina among the McCain aides that spoke to CNN.

A top McCain official contacted by CNN said, on condition on anonymity, "No big deal, but not how you get on the surrogate all-star team. Very Biden-like."

"This campaign source said Fiorina would be discouraged from additional media interviews.

Another top campaign adviser was far less diplomatic.

"Carly will now disappear," this source said. "Senator McCain was furious." Asked to define "disappear," this source said, adding that she would be off TV for a while - but remain at the Republican National Committee and keep her role as head of the party's joint fundraising committee with the McCain campaign.

Fiorina was booked for several TV interviews over the next few days, including one on CNN. Those interviews have been canceled.

 

[Ab-Titchaz]

McCain amamemtoa from Press interviews maana japokua amesema ukweli, nadhani
imewauma sana...coming from there own.This will surely be an interesting week.

 

[Susuviri]

McCain amamemtoa from Press interviews maana japokua amesema ukweli, nadhani
imewauma sana...coming from there own.This will surely be an interesting week.

Ab-Titchaz, nadhani wiki hii iko interesting maana bila kupenda the Republicans have been fored back to the issues and unfortunately hii financial meltdown can betraced back directly to them and the Bush administration. Na ukisikiliza vyema wamejaribu kutupia lawama the deomcrats in Congress and Senate lakini Democrats wanatumia sababu that htey didn't have overwhleming majority so there was gridlock. Hii inaweza kuwasaidia sana Democrats pia kwenye congressional elections and that is why they are now going tougher on McCain.
At the end of the day as long as the focus is on the economy, McCain will slip in the polls. But if they succeed in derailing the Democrats like they dod with lipstick, then again the focus is on personalities. But I also believe the media is starting to pay attention, so no more free rides for McCain and Palin!

 

[Hofstede]

Ee bwana msekia Explosions kwenye US Embassy Sana'a Yemen?. Kweli hawa GOPers watafanya kila njia mwaka huu kubakia WH. Yaani walianza Georgia baada ya kuona imetulia na kuwapatia Georgia kifuta machozi cha $1Billion baada ya kuwata wachokoze nyuki Russia kum-benefit babu, Leo hii baada ya kubanwa kwenye Uchumi wameleta new headline. Not this time, not this time. fear mongering won't work.

 

[Susuviri]

Ee bwana msekia Explosions kwenye US Embassy Sana'a Yemen?. Kweli hawa GOPers watafanya kila njia mwaka huu kubakia WH. Yaani walianza Georgia baada ya kuona imetulia na kuwapatia Georgia kifuta machozi cha $1Billion baada ya kuwata wachokoze nyuki Russia kum-benefit babu, Leo hii baada ya kubanwa kwenye Uchumi wameleta new headline. Not this time, not this time. fear mongering won't work.

Nimesikia!! Lakini mi naona kama si kitu kibaya kwa Democrats kwani inathibitisha kwamba AlQaeda wameshindwa kuwakamata and they are getting more dangerous by the day. Also kumbuka huko Iraq ni kila siku kwa hiyo wamarekani nao wamekuwa sugu sana.
BUt honestly sidhani kama Republicans wana uwezo wa ku-orchestrate explosions, but with these people you never know.......

 

[Hofstede]

Nimesikia!! Lakini mi naona kama si kitu kibaya kwa Democrats kwani inathibitisha kwamba AlQaeda wameshindwa kuwakamata and they are getting more dangerous by the day. Also kumbuka huko Iraq ni kila siku kwa hiyo wamarekani nao wamekuwa sugu sana.
BUt honestly sidhani kama Republicans wana uwezo wa ku-orchestrate explosions, but with these people you never know.......

Lets hope hawawezi ku-orchestrate explosions but the failure to detect it or prevent seems like ignorance which gave chance for this mess to benefit themselves. Because there is no US Casualties i hope it's not a big deal to US- election, but will give Mccain a break from Dems offence, I hope he will seize it and talk tough but that will not help him much.

 

[BAK]

Mrosso, naona wewe ni Obama supporter mwenzetu! Great! Lakini mimi siko tayari kufungua champagne just yet, na sitegemei landslide victory for Obama at this point kwa sababu just like last week was a bad wek for Obama, this week is bad for McCain but overall the race is tight. Obama's volunteers are busy canvassing and the battle will be fought on the ground not in the air (i.e. TV and radio and media in general). Sasa hivi spin ni nyingi sana katika media - honestly on both sides - so huwezi ku-judge kwa kusema eti wanahabari wamesema McCain had a bad day or week.

Susuviri, hawana sera hawana chochote statement yao kubwa ni "With your votes we are going to shake things up ni Washington" Na kweli wanaweza kushinda pamoja na kuwa hawastahili kabisa kupata hata 40% ya total votes.

 

[Ab-Titchaz]

Ab-Titchaz, nadhani wiki hii iko interesting maana bila kupenda the Republicans have been fored back to the issues and unfortunately hii financial meltdown can betraced back directly to them and the Bush administration. Na ukisikiliza vyema wamejaribu kutupia lawama the deomcrats in Congress and Senate lakini Democrats wanatumia sababu that htey didn't have overwhleming majority so there was gridlock. Hii inaweza kuwasaidia sana Democrats pia kwenye congressional elections and that is why they are now going tougher on McCain.
At the end of the day as long as the focus is on the economy, McCain will slip in the polls. But if they succeed in derailing the Democrats like they dod with lipstick, then again the focus is on personalities. But I also believe the media is starting to pay attention, so no more free rides for McCain and Palin!

Susuviri,

mwanzoni mwa hii Kampeni, McCain alisema kua the thing will be about issues
but personalities...at that time he was taunting his military credentials. But as fate would have it, hii meltdown has forced issues back on the table.

Bush can be directly tied to the mortgage meltdown,by a speech he gave talking about the fact that his administration would do everything in its power
to put minorities in houses.The mortgage companies in turn saw it as presidential decree which assured them of a bailout if things went wrong...then they went on a rampage giving every Tom,Dick and Harry loans
to buy houses.Mtu hana historia ya a steady income anapewa loan kununua
nyumba za nguvu.Wakati wa malipo ulipofika ikawa mambo ya ahadi na back payments.Eventually the majority couldn't keep up and started defaulting on their payments.The effect was devastating as we can see now.

Guess what though, Bush,like he said, has bailed out the 2 major mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac..(washkaji zake).Sasa pia wana-bail out AIG... a private farm.Imagine its raising eyebrows maana watu wanasema "why are they using taxpayers money to bail out a private firm which has
been siphoning money from the public through insurance premiums?".

Look at that closely and you see a win-win situation for the CEO's of these companies.Merrill Lynch wenyewe ni hefty contributors to Mcsame's campaign.Yaani kwa ufupi ni wamoja tu!

 

[Susuviri]

Susuviri,

mwanzoni mwa hii Kampeni, McCain alisema kua the thing will be about issues
but personalities...at that time he was taunting his military credentials. But as fate would have it, hii meltdown has forced issues back on the table.

Bush can be directly tied to the mortgage meltdown,by a speech he gave talking about the fact that his administration would do everything in its power
to put minorities in houses.The mortgage companies in turn saw it as presidential decree which assured them of a bailout if things went wrong...then they went on a rampage giving every Tom,Dick and Harry loans
to buy houses.Mtu hana historia ya a steady income anapewa loan kununua
nyumba za nguvu.Wakati wa malipo ulipofika ikawa mambo ya ahadi na back payments.Eventually the majority couldn't keep up and started defaulting on their payments.The effect was devastating as we can see now.

Guess what though, Bush,like he said, has bailed out the 2 major mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac..(washkaji zake).Sasa pia wana-bail out AIG... a private farm.Imagine its raising eyebrows maana watu wanasema "why are they using taxpayers money to bail out a private firm which has
been siphoning money from the public through insurance premiums?".

Look at that closely and you see a win-win situation for the CEO's of these companies.Merrill Lynch wenyewe ni hefty contributors to Mcsame's campaign.Yaani kwa ufupi ni wamoja tu!

I agree, na nilifurhi kusikia Obama akiwavalia njuga akisema no bailouts. Pia Biden kazungmzia ile golden parachutes za CEO in fact huyo mama Carly Fiorna naye si ndo yalimkuta kule HP? Sijui alikuja lipwa yale mamilioni? BUt how come I heard that Fannie and Freddie were not bailed out just loans were guaranteed. Hii AIG wanadai kwamba ni largest insrance company my question is wasinge-bail out ingekuwaje kwa wananchi wa kawaida? Maana naona wao ndo wangeumia! Hata hivyo nilifurahi kuona Lehmann Brothers walilazimika kutafuta wawekezaji wapya.
Still economically Marekani iko katika hai mbaya sana na mi nadhani mpaka November vitu vingi sana vitafumuka. Kuna mtu ambaye alipost kwa pseudonym lakini mwezi July alitabiri vyote hivi baada tu ya Bearn Sterns! Watu wakasema ni mshabiki wa Obama ndo maana. Sasa hivi watu wanamwomba arudi kule Daily Kos aendelee kutoa utabiri wake!! Yeye ni expert na alisema ukiangalia quarterly reports zao utaona that these banks are all in trouble.
Another question is how much of this can they pin on McCain because he is slippery as well. I like the way walivyoonyesha that Phil Gramm his advisor ndo amehusika na ile Act iliyofungua mlango kwa uozo na chaos hii. But Democrats and Obama campaign need to keep hammering at this point, ili kuwakumbusha watu hawa Republicans hawafai kabisaaaa.

 

[Bonnie1974]

..game,

..kwa waliosikiliza hotuba yake ya shukrani baada ya ushindi na kuona wafuasi wake wakimshangilia,wataelewa kuwa america needs change and is going to vote for it!

..tupo tulio na shaka kwamba wenye kushika mambo huko kwa watemi wa dunia wanaweza mhujumu!ila america is craving for change and is more united now than before!

..simply,jamaa ame-transcend color!

Certain,he has transcended color.

 

[Susuviri]

Certain,he has transcended color.

He has tried to transcend color and to a certain extent he has succeeded but it is a fact that it is only among a certain age group and income. His appeal to blue collar workers is not the real issue as some put, because " blue collar workers" is code name for rednecks. Sasa wale ni kaaaazi kwelikweli.

 

[Masanja]

He has tried to transcend color and to a certain extent he has succeeded but it is a fact that it is only among a certain age group and income. His appeal to blue collar workers is not the real issue as some put, because " blue collar workers" is code name for rednecks. Sasa wale ni kaaaazi kwelikweli.

Susu wengine tulikuwa tumejizuia kucomment mpaka baada ya uchaguzi ndo tusherehekee ushindi wa jaluo lakini hali inavyokwenda inatufanye wengi tuanze kupanic. Honestly speaking NAANZA KUOGOPA kwamba Democrats May lose this thing-Again! Na wasi wasi wangu mkubwa ni hawa older mamas backers wa Hillary na evangelicals..Dems need to really work on this group. What I see MacCain aliwapiga bao dems kwa nomination ya Palin and whether we like it or not, Dems were not prepared for that woman. and as a conventional wisdom might confirm, irrespective ya madudu ya huyu mama uwezekano wa older women kumpa kura huyu mama ni mkubwa sana.

Perhaps people might say that economic melt down might sway voters, but as once said..all politics is local. Watu wangekuwa wanavote kwa kuangalia real issues na hali halisi ya maisha, Iam sure Obama angekuwa mbele kwenye polls. For any serious analyst, these polls arent good for Dems. Not at all! MacCain bwana has challenged people over and over...Mara nyingi sana anakuwa written off..only to emerge as a winner and this November sintoshangaa Dems wakikosa hii kitu.

Iam really very worried na dems come November. What I see Iraq is no longer an issue, its a bread and butter na hapo ndo Dems are good at, but so far the trend doesnt assure me that Dems will be in the WH come November leave alone changing electoral map! Anyway mlioko huko..endeleeni kufanya yale yaliyo katika uwezo wenu. But let Jaluo change his strategies..otherwise we are likely to see another tragedy on the eve of election night..watu wakilia..na this year tutalia wengi!

Sijui kwa nini..lakini uchaguzi wowote US ambao unamuweka mbele any Dem candidate kwa less than 5% una end up kwa republicans...Lets hope this year things will be different!


Kila lakheri Susu. I hope we really get dems in the WH!

 

[Susuviri]

Susu wengine tulikuwa tumejizuia kucomment mpaka baada ya uchaguzi ndo tusherehekee ushindi wa jaluo lakini hali inavyokwenda inatufanye wengi tuanze kupanic. Honestly speaking NAANZA KUOGOPA kwamba Democrats May lose this thing-Again! Na wasi wasi wangu mkubwa ni hawa older mamas backers wa Hillary na evangelicals..Dems need to really work on this group. What I see MacCain aliwapiga bao dems kwa nomination ya Palin and whether we like it or not, Dems were not prepared for that woman. and as a conventional wisdom might confirm, irrespective ya madudu ya huyu mama uwezekano wa older women kumpa kura huyu mama ni mkubwa sana.

Perhaps people might say that economic melt down might sway voters, but as once said..all politics is local. Watu wangekuwa wanavote kwa kuangalia real issues na hali halisi ya maisha, Iam sure Obama angekuwa mbele kwenye polls. For any serious analyst, these polls arent good for Dems. Not at all! MacCain bwana has challenged people over and over...Mara nyingi sana anakuwa written off..only to emerge as a winner and this November sintoshangaa Dems wakikosa hii kitu.

Iam really very worried na dems come November. What I see Iraq is no longer an issue, its a bread and butter na hapo ndo Dems are good at, but so far the trend doesnt assure me that Dems will be in the WH come November leave alone changing electoral map! Anyway mlioko huko..endeleeni kufanya yale yaliyo katika uwezo wenu. But let Jaluo change his strategies..otherwise we are likely to see another tragedy on the eve of election night..watu wakilia..na this year tutalia wengi!

Sijui kwa nini..lakini uchaguzi wowote US ambao unamuweka mbele any Dem candidate kwa less than 5% una end up kwa republicans...Lets hope this year things will be different!


Kila lakheri Susu. I hope we really get dems in the WH!

Actually Msanja mkuu, hauko peke yako katika hofu hiyo, many democrats (top) pia wana hofu. kumbuka kwamba Palin alipoongea katika convention Obama raised 10 milion in 24 hours!!! Wengi wamehofu in case this crazy old man and crazy Miss Alaska get into the White House. Actually there's plenty of good news lakini akina Obama pia hawataki kuitangaza sana kwa sababu wanataka watu waendelee kudonate and volunteer. Hata hivyo Palin amepoteza umaarufu in the past 3 days na ataendelea kupoteza umaarufu katika kipindi hiki wakati watu wako busy na uchumi.

By the end of her first 15 minutes in the spotlight--which included her speech at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul--Palin existed mostly as an idea: a frontier supermom who'd triumphed over adversity (the Ol' Boys Club, the "liberal media"). Palin spent her first week reading from a teleprompter and avoiding questions from the press--and the public--so as not to sully this positive first impression.The polls reflected the early success of her strategy. In the three days after Palin joined Team McCain--Aug. 29-31--32 percent of voters told the pollsters at Diageo/Hotline that they had a favorable opinion of her; most (48 percent) didn't know enough to say. (The Diageo/Hotline poll is conducted by Financial Dynamics opinion research; it's the only daily tracking poll to regularly publish approval ratings.) By Sept. 4, however, 43 percent of Diageo/Hotline respondents approved of Palin with only 25 percent disapproving--an 18-point split. Apparently, voters were liking what they were hearing. Four days later, Palin's approval rating had climbed to 47 percent (+17), and by Sept. 13 it had hit 52 percent. The gap at that point between her favorable and unfavorable numbers--22 percent--was larger than either McCain's (+20) or Obama's (+13).

But then a funny thing happened: Palin seems to have lost some of her luster. Since Sept. 13, Palin's unfavorables have climbed from 30 percent to 36 percent. Meanwhile, her favorables have slipped from 52 percent to 48 percent. That's a three-day net swing of -10 points, and it leaves her in the Sept. 15 Diageo/Hotline tracking poll tied for the smallest favorability split (+12)** of any of the Final Four. Over the course of a single weekend, in other words, Palin went from being the most popular White House hopeful to the least.

Pia timu yao inaonekana wana message zinazogongana na hawajui wanalosema. McCain contradicts McCain. Kuna study imeonyesha 60% of the top several hundred economists interviewed preferred Obama over McCain. So not to worry, these are ebbs and flows of Campaign, lakini pia ni vyema kuwa cautious maana kumbuka Obama amefanya tendo la kihistoria na ni mara ya kwanza kwa mtu mweusi kuwa on the Ticket at all na he is running on top of the ticket (siyo VP). So there are Americans who are not only uncomfortable but are not ready. lakini naamini hapo walipofikia wamarekani they are really ready for CHANGE: common sense will win in the end na hawawezi kumweka kibabu katika Jumba Jeupe.

 

[Hofstede]

Susu

Mi naamini maneno yako, kuna uwezekano mkubwa kuwa Media wanacheza na polls kuvutia more ads, kwani huu ni msimu wa mavuno. Mfano two days ago Gallup polls ilikuwa Obama 45% - 47% McCain.

Today Obama 47% - 45% McCain. hii inaonyesha kuwa Uchaguzi huu ni wa Mabadiliko na tutarajie lolote Nov. 4, Ila the real change ticket will prevail.

 

[Icadon]

Haya naona convention bounce imeshaanza kunywea jaluo analeade by two points...NM upo hapo?

Masanja karibu sana, hatujakusikia siku nyingi, Iraq imetulia Afghanistan imecharuka inarudisha argument ya Obama ya kuwa angeweka wapiganaji wengi Afghanistan na sio Iraq....Hii attack ya US embassy in Yemen imeprove kuwa Al Qaeda bado wako active. though kuna official mmoja on monday alisema hawana nguvu sana kama miaka ya nyuma.

 

[Icadon]

Hehe looks like the gloves are off sasa ni mwendo wa smackdown tuu

“If you want to understand the difference between how Senator McCain and I would govern as president, you can start by taking a look at how we’ve responded to this crisis,”

“This is what happens when you see seven years of incomes falling for the average worker while Wall Street is booming, and declare—as Senator McCain did earlier this year—that we’ve made great economic progress under George Bush,”

“That is how you can reach the conclusion—as late as yesterday—that the fundamentals of the economy are strong.”

We just woke up to news of financial disaster, and this morning he said the fundamentals of our economy are still strong. Senator McCain, what economy are you talking about?”-Barack Obama in Golden, CO Sept 16th

 

[YNIM]

Hehe looks like the gloves are off sasa ni mwendo wa smackdown tuu

"If you want to understand the difference between how Senator McCain and I would govern as president, you can start by taking a look at how we've responded to this crisis,"

"This is what happens when you see seven years of incomes falling for the average worker while Wall Street is booming, and declare-as Senator McCain did earlier this year-that we've made great economic progress under George Bush,"

"That is how you can reach the conclusion-as late as yesterday-that the fundamentals of the economy are strong."

We just woke up to news of financial disaster, and this morning he said the fundamentals of our economy are still strong. Senator McCain, what economy are you talking about?"-Barack Obama in Golden, CO Sept 16th

...mie nilisema lakini huko awali, kwamba Obama hatokubali kusukumwa na kuwa swift boated kama alivyofanyiwa Gore au Kerry!! kuanzia sasa thru Nov 4 ni mawe tu, babu Makopo lazima "acheue"!!! win or lose, itakuwa ni battle ambayo ita-hadithiwa miaka kwa miaka ijayo!! GOBAMA, yay!

"So let's take a look at John's conversion here," Biden added later. "Something happened on the road to Damascus; John fell off his horse, but he got back up on the same horse." Joe Biden, akielezea jinsi Makopo alivyoflipflop juu ya financial markets meltdown.

 

[Susuviri]

...mie nilisema lakini huko awali, kwamba Obama hatokubali kusukumwa na kuwa swift boated kama alivyofanyiwa Gore au Kerry!! kuanzia sasa thru Nov 4 ni mawe tu, babu Makopo lazima "acheue"!!! win or lose, itakuwa ni battle ambayo ita-hadithiwa miaka kwa miaka ijayo!! GOBAMA, yay!

"So let's take a look at John's conversion here," Biden added later. "Something happened on the road to Damascus; John fell off his horse, but he got back up on the same horse." Joe Biden, akielezea jinsi Makopo alivyoflipflop juu ya financial markets meltdown.

Huwa namsikiliza sana Biden and despite the doomsayers and worriers, Biden is a GREAT attackdog. he does it with humour and always charming. Kila siku ananichekesha na comparison zake and I can see the reaction from the crowd that he connects so well with him. Wanapenda kumwita gaffe machine but his bluntness is good, and he is a great attackdog! Go Obama/Biden

 

[YNIM]

Huwa namsikiliza sana Biden and despite the doomsayers and worriers, Biden is a GREAT attackdog. he does it with humour and always charming. Kila siku ananichekesha na comparison zake and I can see the reaction from the crowd that he connects so well with him. Wanapenda kumwita gaffe machine but his bluntness is good, and he is a great attackdog! Go Obama/Biden

Oooh nice, kumbe na wewe unaona ninachokiona!! kwakweli huo mfano wa "on the road to Damascus" unachekesha sana na ndio ukweli wenyewe!!

Kusema ile kweli mie sasa nimeacha kuangalia major news channel except for KO's Countdown...sasa napata report zangu toka kwa Daily Show( Jon Stewart), Colbert Report, News Hour, Bill Maher, SNL na late night shows za kina Reno na Letterman....nataka kucheka zaidi, just enjoying the season!!!

 

[Koba]

..polls sasa zime turn to Obama advantage,nasikia lipstick leo kaenda NY kwenye rally kupata experience kwa kukutana na foreign leaders,kweli nimeamini GOP is a big joke,Kerry na Gore walishindwa kujua GOP ni nothing short ya mafia wakafikiri wanadeal na wastaarabu na wakakaa kimya kumbe ni mafia watupu,this time politics za Chicago zitawamaliza GOP...ngoja awaendeshe mpaka Nov 4th warudi kwao Alaska kula moose soup!