US Election Coverage 2008

[DMussa]

Mnajua nyinyi washabiki wa Obama mna mchecheto sana. Kapata vikura sijui kumi...tayari mmeshaanza kushangilia ushindi.....

I had really hoped u'd come Nyani..... thanks for popin up!

I'm encouraged to know u still have hopes!! Keep praying for your babuuu!!

Go...Obama go.......

 

[Nyani Ngabu]

I had really hoped u'd come Nyani..... thanks for popin up!

I'm encouraged to know u still have hopes!! Keep praying for your babuuu!!

Go...Obama go.......

Babu will win this damn thing.....no question about about it.

I just got back from touring two polling stations in North DeKalb and I'm telling you Obama has no chance.....

 

[Hofstede]

Babu will win this damn thing.....no question about about it.

I just got back from touring two polling stations in North DeKalb and I'm telling you Obama has no chance.....

You are trying to vent emotions by transmitting yours to us, this thing even Babu knows he has no chance, the only hope remains "he's thinking white voters are recists and will vote for him because he's white". They gona prove him wrong today.

 

[Nyani Ngabu]

You are trying to vent emotion by transmitting yours to us, this thing even Babu knows he has no chance, the only hope remains "he's thinking white voters a recist and will vote for him because he's white". They gona prove him wrong today.

Look at this rigamarole!! But I've come to expect it from you....

 

[Hofstede]

Look at this rigamarole!! But I've come to expect it from you....

You'll get the meaning later, after your Babu starts blinking 100times a minute with mouth open !!!!

 

[Mama]

and tongue out, Mctongue.

 

[Ab-Titchaz]

Obama is casting his vote as we speak at Hyde Park near his home.
He looks good, bright eyed and confident. He is there with Michelle,
Sasha and Maliyah.After here we are headed to Indiana for a final
push rally in a red State then we will be back in Chicago to monitor
the results as they trickle in.

 

[Ab-Titchaz]

Joe Biden, his wife Jill and his Mother(91yrs) are casting their vote in Wilmington,DE.

 

[Ab-Titchaz]

Vijijini wanasubiri updates...

Sarah Hussein Obama, grandmother to U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama, attends special prayers for the U.S. elections at Nyangoma Kogelo shopping centre, 430 km west of Nairobi on Tuesday

Kenyan relatives of U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama attend a media briefing in Nyangoma Kogelo village, 430 km west of Nairobi on Monday. Nyangoma Kogelo is the Obama family's ancestral village

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[Rev. Kishoka]

Nyani Ngabu,

Kibabu kimeshindwa kulala kinaenda kufanya kampenisiku ya Uchaguzi, hiyo ni desparation ya hali ya juu! Si atulie basi maana yeye ni Maverick tuone kama atashinda?

Meanwhile miye naimba ule wimbo wa Busta Rhymes/Diddy "Pass me Kavwasiye, Nyani send my Kavwasiye, Pass me Kavwasiye'...

 

[Nyani Ngabu]

Nyani Ngabu,

Kibabu kimeshindwa kulala kinaenda kufanya kampenisiku ya Uchaguzi, hiyo ni desparation ya hali ya juu! Si atulie basi maana yeye ni Maverick tuone kama atashinda?

Meanwhile miye naimba ule wimbo wa Busta Rhymes/Diddy "Pass me Kavwasiye, Nyani send my Kavwasiye, Pass me Kavwasiye'...

Kweli wewe umekunywa kool aid ya Obantu....kwa sababu umesahau kuwa Obantu ana "bonge" la rally Indianapolis...kama ana uhakika hivyo kwa nini anaenda kupiga kampeni huko...?

 

[BAK]

A vote on the future of the US - and so the world

Jonathan Freedland in Washington
The Guardian, Tuesday November 4 2008

'Americans are desperate for change' Link to this video Sometimes it felt as if this day would never come. But today, the 21 long months of the 2008 presidential campaign, a saga packed with higher drama than any contest in living memory, finally comes down to a straight choice.

By tonight, perhaps as many as 140 million Americans will have stepped inside a polling both, pulled back the curtain and made a quiet, private decision that will determine the course of the United States - and so the world - for the next four years.
The two candidates have tried to frame that choice in their own terms. For Barack Obama, it has been the same, perennial pitch that challengers have made since the dawn of democratic politics: the future versus the past, change versus more of the same.

Those were the battle lines he drew first against Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries, and the lines he was drawing even in the final lap of campaigning yesterday, as he tried to absorb the news of his grandmother's death and go ahead with rallies in Florida, North Carolina and Virginia: that the US could choose a new path with him, or a continuation of the Bush era with John McCain.

McCain's pitch has never been quite as clear. At first, he suggested that Americans would be deciding between an experienced warrior and an unseasoned novice. But experience became a hard message to sell once McCain had picked Sarah Palin, governor of Alaska for just 20 months, as his running mate. So he fell back on the traditional Republican arguments: weak vs strong abroad, big vs small government at home.

But those lines have grown blurred, not least because McCain has been the standard bearer of the party that blurred them. It's not easy to preach the message of small government when a Republican president has just spent $700bn on a partial nationalisation of the US banking system.

McCain fuzzed the lines himself, too, with a daily barrage of different messages cumulatively suggesting that the choice was between an all-American war hero and a strange, unrooted, quasi-celebrity socialist with dodgy friends and dubious loyalties.

In the final push, hitting seven cities in seven states yesterday, McCain found a focus at last. As if taking a leaf from the Tory playbook of 1992, he warned of a tax bombshell about to land on hard-working Americans. At every stop he has been invoking his human prop, Joe the Plumber, the everyman who, he warns, would pay more tax under Obama.

But the choice today is not only as the candidates have framed it, even in their final 30-second TV ads: one from Obama taunting McCain for winning the endorsement of Dick Cheney ("Boy, did he earn it") and a Republican ad featuring the Democratic candidate's former pastor, Jeremiah Wright, bellowing "God Damn America". The choice is also made up of elements the candidates don't always articulate explicitly. For these two men have fundamentally different attitudes to the rest of the world.

Obama urges engagement and dialogue "with our enemies as well as our friends". He stresses the importance of restoring America's standing abroad. McCain does not say so directly, but he casts the rest of the world as an essentially hostile arena, a vast "Out There", full of menaces that America has to stare down. In a spirited stump speech - "The Mac is back!" - delivered in Springfield, Virginia at the weekend, the only references to the world beyond US shores were to dictators, and to Obama's refusal to use the word "victory" when discussing American involvement in Iraq.

And so McCain inadvertently confirms Obama's presentation of him as the would-be bringer of a third Bush term. For McCain reveals no difference from the president in his view of the world. In his choice of advisers, in his disdain for diplomacy - always dismissed as glorified appeasement - he makes clear that, when it comes to foreign policy, today's choice really is between change and more of the same.

Obama says that's true of economics too, that McCain represents a continuation of the same "on-your-own" philosophy that has prevailed these last eight years. McCain insists that is unfair, that he has criticised Bush for letting spending get too high. But he does not offer a substantial alternative. In a late night rally at a high-school sports ground in Glen Allen, Virginia, Palin won cheers when she promised a "pro-growth plan" - but she never explained what this plan might include.

So, though they could not admit it during these tough times, the Republicans are indeed offering the same Bush formula of low taxes and unfettered free markets. On Saturday, Palin even repeated the old Reagan bromide, that "government is the problem, not the solution". Today Americans will have to decide whether that's true - or whether they are desperate for government to role up its sleeves and help them out.

Of course, there are other choices on offer, including one between America's demographic future and its past. Obama is the product of a mixed background, like increasing numbers of Americans. The US future, says one analyst, is not black or white, but brown, and Obama embodies that. McCain and party, meanwhile, still look - Palin apart - like a country club: old guys in blazers at the top, and white faces all around.

Finally, Americans can see in today's vote a choice between two different ways of doing politics - and not only between the sleek efficiency of the Obama machine and the often chaotic performance of the McCain team. For it is, in part, a referendum on a style of electioneering that has dominated ever since Richard Nixon ran for Congress in 1946 suggesting his opponent was not "one of us". McCain, who once disdained this brand of cultural warfare, in which any Democrat is cast as unpatriotic, elitist and less than a true American, has embraced it in 2008.

Whether it's his allies stressing Obama's middle name of Hussein, or Palin praising "pro-America" parts of the country, or McCain himself closing his speeches by declaring "I'm an American", as if his opponent is not, this year's Republican effort has been every bit as dirty as those of the past.

If voters reject McCain today they will also be rejecting that McCarthyite brand of politics, embracing Obama's insistence that, at a time when the problems facing America are so big, it makes no sense that its politics are so small.

This is what stands before Americans today. They can decide to see the world in a new light, full of potential partners as well as enemies, or remain in the Bush crouch of permanent warfare. They can decide it's time to address the gravest questions, or run from them, retreating into the same cultural spats that have dominated for at least 40 years. After 21 months of candidates debating and pundits yammering, it's time for the American people to speak.

 

[Njowepo]

Long live Obama

 

[Hofstede]

Karl Rove predicts Obama landslide in electoral college Obama 338 - 200 McCain

 

[Nyani Ngabu]

Karl Rove predicts Obama landslide in electoral college Obama 338 - 200 McCain

umeitoa wapi hii? halafu ni prediction tu na wala haina maana yoyote...

mimi nadhani huyu karl rove yuko overrated. mimi nimeprint hii prediction yake na nitaishikilia hadi matokeo yatangazwe tuone kama anajua kama anavyodhaniwa kujua....

 

[Yassin]

Kwangu mimi naona kwamba Obama ana uwezo wa 99% mpaka sasa wa kushoda na kama asiposhinda basi watakuwa wamempiga changa la macho kama alivyofanya bush sasa jamani tukae mkao wa kula na kusubiri majibu leo usiku nini kitatokea na nadhani pia kama mpaka sasa Obama anaongoza kama asipochaguliwa marekani kutachafuka sana tena sana uwakika ninao maana watu sasa hivi wanataka mabadiliko zaidi sio mambo ya kukaa kila ncho unakuwa na ugomvi nayo

N.K
Jamani tusifatilie sana mambo ya kukaa na kumjadili Obama na wenzake nadhani tunawaste time ya kutosha zaidi Pamoja.......

 

[Hofstede]

Kwangu mimi naona kwamba Obama ana uwezo wa 99% mpaka sasa wa kushoda na kama asiposhinda basi watakuwa wamempiga changa la macho kama alivyofanya bush sasa jamani tukae mkao wa kula na kusubiri majibu leo usiku nini kitatokea na nadhani pia kama mpaka sasa Obama anaongoza kama asipochaguliwa marekani kutachafuka sana tena sana uwakika ninao maana watu sasa hivi wanataka mabadiliko zaidi sio mambo ya kukaa kila ncho unakuwa na ugomvi nayo

N.K
Jamani tusifatilie sana mambo ya kukaa na kumjadili Obama na wenzake nadhani tunawaste time ya kutosha zaidi Pamoja.......

??????!!!!!!!!! where are you sir/madam?, sound like a Kenyan??

 

[Yo Yo]

Mguu wa Michelle,she is hotie

 

[Jasusi]

Nyani jumba hio mtaliota mwaka huu wewe na babu yako.Go Obama!

Hivi Nyani kishafunguliwa? Free Nyani, Free Nyani!

 

[Hofstede]

Thanks Nyani kwa kujua kuwa hata Obama anaweza kushinda, japo najua in few hours we will be together to congratulate the present elect ....