Mimi nawaonya: huu uchaguzi bado kabisa na hizi "polls" zisiwachuze. Kama mna imani na hizi "polls" jiulizeni ni kwa nini kuna idadi (asilimia) kubwa ya so called undecideds? I'm telling you guys, this election is not over yet......you are in for a long night on Nov.4th.....
Sure I did! You aint wrong! But I guess the landscape has irreversibly changed. In anyway I always identify myself as hard core democrat admirer and greatly subscribe to the policies of democrats, so whoever would have won the nomination, I guess I would have gone with him/her/it.
Perhaps you should know. In politics, there are NO permanent enemies/friends rather permanent interests. And definetely its a sign of maturity and health democracy when you see people who differed (like Hillary and BO, or Maccain and Bush in 2000), coming together and support each other, than dwelling on parochial and selfsih interests.
Finally I'm starting to REALLY believe that Obama will win, at the beginning I gave him 95% chance to loose in primaries now...everything has turned 180 degrees. ..I'm so proud of him
Mimi nawaonya: huu uchaguzi bado kabisa na hizi "polls" zisiwachuze. Kama mna imani na hizi "polls" jiulizeni ni kwa nini kuna idadi (asilimia) kubwa ya so called undecideds? I'm telling you guys, this election is not over yet......you are in for a long night on Nov.4th.....
Nyani my friend Nyani, I always say you are superb, "because they are just where babu yako wanted them to be". Wakibweteka watakuwa mdomo wazi Nov 5. Ni kweli huu uchaguzi bado mbichi kabisa na Obama is placing himself at the "Underdog" position, mpira dakika tisini. Ndiyo maana Obama kawapa mifano ya "New Hampshire kwenye Primary" na "Michigan 2004". There is no reason for premature celebration, I agree with you 150%
I never believed kwamba kuna siku Fox NUZ watakuwa in the tank for Obama. Jana usiku kwenye Factor, O'reilly alikuwa na heating converstation na conservative nut wing mwingine Laura Ingraham. Bill'O favoring Obama's side.
Just think about it for a minute, anyone who is in the tank for Obantu isn't shy to say so. Now for many folks it's kinda cool to say I'm voting for Obama. This is especially true with white folks.
I personally don't believe that there are still undecideds out there. These so called undecideds I'm sure they are for McCain otherwise what would make them be undecided at this point? We've had the conventions, the debates, and everything else. What else are they waiting for? Think about it people...think......On election day they will all break for McCain.....I'm telling you now and on Nov.5th you will be like Nyani said this.....mark my words
I agree with you, race is the biggest factor, in this election. these are those people who don't want to been see as racists in public but in private there are saying, "can't vote for a blackman", Given all conditions favouring Democrat's candidate this year, its true that if Obama was a white candidate this election should be over by now. On the otherside, those people might be unwilling to disappoint McCain now by staying undecided so that to give him more energy for campigning to sway more electorates. Lets wait and see, Is America the most racist nation in the world?.
Is America the most racist nation in the world?.
That is Research question to be answered on Nov 5. Don't rash into conlusion lets wait for empirical results firstAbsolutely not!
That is Research question to be answered on Nov 5. Don't rash into conlusion lets wait for empirical results first
Unaona sasa.....the whole entire elite mainstream media is in the tank for Obantu...even Fox.....now you see what we're up against. But the good thing is they (the pundits) don't get to decide this election.
Nyani, nafikiri these guys (right wing media) see that the "likelihood" of this election to tip on Obama's side is greater than that of McCain na hata ukisilizia "tone" ya hawa jamaa, kuanzia jana usiku kwenye O'reilly factor show, Hannity and Colmes, Fox and Friends, Scott Hennen, Dennis Miller, Bryan & the Judge, etc., tone imebadilika kabisa, they are not attacking Obama, its more civil sasa hivi. Hawa mwiti tena Radical, ama "socialist",
One thing I did note though ni kwamba...Fox News wanasema kwamba Obama is "angry" with them kutokana na pundits kama Sean Hannity walio make career zao kutokana na attacks on Rev. Wright na William Ayers na kuna mikakati inaendelea behind close doors kumaliza uhasama na kuweka mambo kwenye mstari.
By the way mliomuona McCain kwenye Letterman?
But you can't use the US general election to issue a verdict on whether the US is the most racist nation. So what are you saying...that Obama's win is inevitable and contrary to that it will be because of racism? If that's what you are insinuating then what's the point of John McCain contesting the election? They should just give it to Obama....let him be the president until he dies in office or until he decides to step down himself. No one should be allowed to challenge him. Whoever does and happens to win the whole country will be labeled racist. Obama, The One, The Messiah, The Lord can't lose this election. If he does it will be because of racism. Any white person out there who dares to challenge The Lord Barack of Obama is a racist pig. Hillary is a racist bitch. McCain is a racist pig. White America is racist if The Lord Barack of Obama loses this election.
NB: Where else in the world is the story of The Lord Barack of Obama even possible.....? Nenda Argentina ukagombee uraisi uone.....
Mmeona ile Dinner ya jana Obama na McCain, it was very funny, kama sio waoo vile.Nyani my friend Nyani, i didn't say that, i didn't predetermine the outcome of the reseach. What i said, is that this election is the most important research for the question. Winning or losing all are parts of the variables which can bring us into conclusion. If win very big or lose very big and vice versa can all be good parameters to be analysed. people will be asked why you vote for or against Obama and these are the inputs of the study. Don't take me out of context.
Mmeona ile Dinner ya jana Obama na McCain, it was very funny, kama sio waoo vile.
Mmeona ile Dinner ya jana Obama na McCain, it was very funny, kama sio waoo vile.
October 13, 2008
Op-Ed Columnist
Fire the Campaign
By WILLIAM KRISTOL
Its time for John McCain to fire his campaign.
He has nothing to lose. His campaign is totally overmatched by Obamas. The Obama team is well organized, flush with resources, and the candidate and the campaign are in sync. The McCain campaign, once merely problematic, is now close to being out-and-out dysfunctional. Its combination of strategic incoherence and operational incompetence has become toxic. If the race continues over the next three weeks to be a conventional one, McCain is doomed.
He may be anyway. Bush is unpopular. The media is hostile. The financial meltdown has made things tougher. Maybe the situation is hopeless and if it is, then nothing McCain or his campaign does matters.
But Im not convinced by such claims of inevitability. McCain isnt Bush. The media isnt all-powerful. And the economic crisis still presents an opportunity to show leadership.
The 2008 campaign is now about something very big both our future prosperity and our national security. Yet the McCain campaign has become smaller.
What McCain needs to do is junk the whole thing and start over. Shut down the rapid responses, end the frantic e-mails, bench the spinning surrogates, stop putting up new TV and Internet ads every minute. In fact, pull all the ads theyre doing no good anyway. Use that money for televised town halls and half-hour addresses in prime time.
And let McCain go back to what hes been good at in the past running as a cheerful, open and accessible candidate. Palin should follow suit. The two of them are attractive and competent politicians. Theyre happy warriors and good campaigners. Set them free.
Provide total media accessibility on their campaign planes and buses. Kick most of the aides off and send them out to swing states to work for the state coordinators on getting voters to the polls. Keep just a minimal staff to help organize the press conferences McCain and Palin should have at every stop and the TV interviews they should do at every location. Do town halls, do the Sunday TV shows, do talk radio and invite Obama and Biden to join them in some of these venues, on the ground that more joint appearances might restore civility and substance to the contest.
The hope for McCain and Palin is that they still have pretty good favorable ratings from the voters. The American people have by no means turned decisively against them.
The bad news, of course, is that right now Obamas approval/disapproval rating is better than McCains. Indeed, Obamas is a bit higher than it was a month ago. That suggests the failure of the McCain campaigns attacks on Obama.
So drop them.
Not because theyre illegitimate. I think many of them are reasonable. Obamas relationship to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright is, I believe, a legitimate issue. But McCain ruled it out of bounds, and hes sticking to that. And for whatever reason the public mood, campaign ineptness, McCains alternation between hesitancy and harshness, which reflects the fact that hes uncomfortable in the attack role the other attacks on Obama just arent working. Theres no reason to think theyre suddenly going to.
There are still enough doubts about Obama to allow McCain to win. But McCain needs to make his case, and do so as a serious but cheerful candidate for times that need a serious but upbeat leader.
McCain should stop unveiling gimmicky proposals every couple of days that pretend to deal with the financial crisis. He should tell the truth were in uncharted waters, no one is certain what to do, and no one knows what the situation will be on Jan. 20, 2009. But what we do know is that we could use someone as president whos shown in his career the kind of sound judgment and strong leadership well need to make it through the crisis.
McCain can make the substantive case for his broadly centrist conservatism. He can explain that our enemies wont take a vacation because the markets are down, and that its not unimportant that hes ready to be commander in chief. He can remind voters that even in a recession, the president appoints federal judges and that his judges wont legislate from the bench.
And he can point out that theres going to be a Democratic Congress. He can suggest that surely wed prefer a president who would check that Congress where necessary and work with it where possible, instead of having an inexperienced Democratic president joined at the hip with an all-too-experienced Democratic Congress, leading us, unfettered and unchecked, back to 1970s-style liberalism.
At Wednesday nights debate at Hofstra, McCain might want to volunteer a mild mea culpa about the extent to which the presidential race has degenerated into a shouting match. And then he can pledge to the voters that the last three weeks will feature a contest worthy of this moment in our history.
Hed enjoy it. And he might even win it.