US Election Coverage 2008

mwanamama said:

Hizi picha nimeziona kwa Michuzi. Sasa kwa kiwango alichofikia Obama sasa hivi sidhani kama ni sahihi yeye kuonekana akiwa katika Diaper, Hata kama hizi picha zinaonyesha maisha ya kweli ya Obama akiwa kama mtu wa kawaida. Ikumbukwe kuwa yeye sasa hivi anaangaliwa na dunia nzima kama vile mtu anayetaka ku-set a record in the world. Kwa ushauri wangu kama kuna mtu anamfahamu Michuzi au kama Michuzi mwenyewe yupo humu naomba aziondoe basi haswa hizi zenye kuonyesha mapengo na hii aliyovaa diaper. Just giving him some respect.

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Hizo Dipers Hazina shida, it is a reality of life, kuwa Obama alikuwa mdogo, akawa mkubwa. Si dhambi kujulikana kuwa sisi ni kina nani na tumetoka wapi. Mgombea urais sio Mungu! NI binadamu kama binadamu wengine. Bush ni binadamu kama wengine, Kikwete ni binadamu kama wewe na mimi. Ndio maana mzee Mwinyi anaenda zake town siku hizi akiwa kajivalia ndala na shati kachomolea utafikiri form one wa Azania enzi hizo!

Unanikumbusha nilipokuwa shule ya msingi rafiki yangu alimpenda msichana, sasa siku moja alikuwa na mawazo sana, nikamuuliza vipi mbona mawazo mengi, akaniambia dah, nawaza hapa kama "Clara" huwa nae anaenda haja kubwa kama sisi!? Nikamuuliza kwa nini, akadai.. msichana mzuri kama huyu ni ngumu kuamini kama akienda kujisaidia anatoka uchafu!!!! NIkimuangalia usoni jamaa hacheki yuko sereous....
nikajua huyu design milembe inamuita!!

We are just natural beings, cheo, pesa, majina hayabadilishi hilo. Tutaheshimika na kuthaminiwa kwa yale yajazayo mioyo yetu, na yale tunayoyatamka, na tunavyoishi mbele za watu, na mchango wetu kwa ujumla kwenye jamii. Kila mtu anafahamu kuwa tumezaliwa kama binadamu wengine na hatujashushwa kutoka kwenye sayari nyingine. Tukipata nafasi yoyote hapa duniani ni muhimu sana kumshinda shetani ili tusitamani kuabudiwa kama miungu ya kolelo.

See, this guys is not all what he's cracked up to be....


DE PERE, Wis. - Top advisers to Hillary Rodham Clinton accused Democratic rival Barack Obama of plagiarism Monday, the latest effort by her campaign to undermine the Illinois senator's credibility.

Clinton communications director Howard Wolfson, during a conference call with reporters, pointed to a speech Obama delivered at a Democratic Party dinner in Wisconsin Saturday that lifted lines from an address given last year by his friend, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick.

The Associated Press reported in January that Obama had borrowed ideas and speech points from Patrick, often without attribution. But with Obama now leading in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, Clinton's campaign is using this example in an attempt to chip away at the premise of his candidacy.

The passage in question from Obama's speech addressed the power of oratory, and he used it to rebut Clinton's oft-repeated charge that he is long on rhetoric and short on policy specifics.

"Don't tell me words don't matter," Obama told the Wisconsin audience. "'I have a dream' — just words? 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal' — just words? 'We have nothing to fear but fear itself' — just words? Just speeches?"

Patrick used similar language during his 2006 governor's race to push back on similar charges from his GOP opponent.

"'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal' — just words? Just words?" Patrick said. "'We have nothing to fear but fear itself' — just words? 'Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.' Just words? 'I have a dream' — just words?"

Clinton's campaign posted video clips on YouTube to illustrate the similarities in Obama's and Patrick's speeches.

The charges came a day before Wisconsin's presidential primary, where polls indicate a tight race between the two. The contest featured the first negative television ads of the campaign — from Clinton, criticizing Obama for refusing to debate her in the state before the primary.

A day earlier, Wolfson criticized Obama for backing away from a pledge to accept public funding if he is the Democratic nominee, saying Obama had engaged in a pattern of walking away from promises.

Monday, Wolfson said the two matters were related.

"If you ask voters to judge you on the basis of promises and you break them, or on the basis of rhetoric and you lift it, there's not much else there," he said.

The accusations momentarily put Obama on the defensive and distracted from a tour in Ohio where he hoped to focus on the economy.

At a news conference, Obama acknowledged trading ideas with Patrick and said he and the Massachusetts governor occasionally had borrowed language from each other. Obama said he probably should have credited Patrick but said the oversight didn't indicate a pattern of deception.

"I've written two books, wrote most of my speeches. So I think putting aside the question ... in terms of whether my words were my own, I think that would be carrying it too far," Obama said.

He noted that Clinton occasionally had borrowed language from him.

"I really don't think this is too big of a deal," Obama said. "When Senator Clinton says 'It's time to turn the page' in one of her stump speeches or says she's 'fired up and ready to go,' I don't think that anybody suggests that she's not focused on the issues that she's focused on."

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NN,
hilo ndio tatizo kubwa sana la clinton campaign, badala ya ku-campaign wao wapo obseceed na kutafuta 'scandal' kummaliza obama.
obama na "caddilac-duvall" ni marafiki na political allies for a long time. patrick katumia maneno ya obama na vice versa is true!! infwact, obama katumia lines na words from patrick last year this time ktk campaign in roxbury!! sasa kama hili ni tatizo, why now???!!!
billary will do anything inorder to win!!! ndio maana mie siwapendi......politics za bush na karl rove kusema yule mccain's adopted daughter toka bangladesh ni mtoto wake wa nje aliyezaa na mtu mweusi......it costed mccain S. Carolina!! mama anataka kushinda kampeni kwa kutumia smear!! aibu!!.
Kesho kaa saa hii WS itakuwa ktk column ya Obama regardless ya jungu hili. Go Obama!!.

Hii nayo kiboko sasa kwani Gov wa Mass kalalamika kuwa maneno yake yameibiwa au basi tuu mama anataka kuchafua?

Icadon said:

Hii nayo kiboko sasa kwani Gov wa Mass kalalamika kuwa maneno yake yameibiwa au basi tuu mama anataka kuchafua?

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anataka kuchafua tu......ita backfire, stay tuned!!.
huwezi kuwa original siku hizi, naangalia nightly news with Brian Williams, ana run story ambayo bill na hilly wamesema maneno ya wengine bila attributions!! kwenye mazishi ya Colleta Scott King, hillary alitumia maneno ya bill ktk convetion ya '04 in boston bila attribution!!!???
wapo desperate big tyme to the point that wana-loss ile cool........billary will loss this years election for the democrats!! yes, I said so.

Icadon said:

Hii nayo kiboko sasa kwani Gov wa Mass kalalamika kuwa maneno yake yameibiwa au basi tuu mama anataka kuchafua?

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Sio lazima Deval alalamike....kwani kulikuwa na ugumu gani kwa Osama kutoa attribution? Akumbuke kuwa akija kuwa nominee GOP watatumia ammo kama hizi kummaliza kabisa. Nyie subirini tu. Huwezi hata kidogo ukamrahisishia kazi mpinzani wako mkuu (in this case GOP). Huyu jamaa ni mweupe. You have been warned.....

YournameisMINE said:

anataka kuchafua tu......ita backfire, stay tuned!!.
huwezi kuwa original siku hizi, naangalia nightly news with Brian Williams, ana run story ambayo bill na hilly wamesema maneno ya wengine bila attributions!! kwenye mazishi ya Colleta Scott King, hillary alitumia maneno ya bill ktk convetion ya '04 in boston bila attribution!!!???
wapo desperate big tyme to the point that wana-loss ile cool........billary will loss this years election for the democrats!! yes, I said so.

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Hillary alikuwa yuko kwenye funeral na sio kapmeni ya kisiasa....
Huyu jamaa mweupe....full of borrowed style....but no substance. Ndo maana sasa hivi hataki debate....lol

Nyani Ngabu said:

Hillary alikuwa yuko kwenye funeral na sio kapmeni ya kisiasa....
Huyu jamaa mweupe....full of borrowed style....but no substance. Ndo maana sasa hivi hataki debate....lol

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kaka,
acha mambo yako wewe, maneno ya mtu mwingine ni maneno ya mtu mwingine na haijalisha umeyasema wapi wala nini??
nani kakwambia funeral ya colleta scott king haikuwa ni campaign event??
hivi unajua mpaka sasa wameshafanya debate ngapi?? kuna hiyo inayokuja ya OH tuone nini itakacho badilisha.........mwisho wa hizi kampeni kutakuwa kumefanyika debates kama 20 hivi, je hizo ni kidogo??
ukiwa front runner na kuona huna faida ya ku-debate unahaki ya kusema no!! kumbuka Bush v/s Gore au Bush v/s Kerry.............hamna kipya hapa mzee, hii ni hadithi ya mfa maji!!!!.

YournameisMINE said:

kaka,
acha mambo yako wewe, maneno ya mtu mwingine ni maneno ya mtu mwingine na haijalisha umeyasema wapi wala nini??
nani kakwambia funeral ya colleta scott king haikuwa ni campaign event??hivi unajua mpaka sasa wameshafanya debate ngapi?? kuna hiyo inayokuja ya OH tuone nini itakacho badilisha.........mwisho wa hizi kampeni kutakuwa kumefanyika debates kama 20 hivi, je hizo ni kidogo??
ukiwa front runner na kuona huna faida ya ku-debate unahaki ya kusema no!! kumbuka Bush v/s Gore au Bush v/s Kerry.............hamna kipya hapa mzee, hii ni hadithi ya mfa maji!!!!.

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Hahahahahaha...wewe kweli ni kibaraka wa Osama. Hebu niambie basi hiyo funeral ya Colleta ilikuwa kampeni ya nani? We ulikuwa umealikwa kwa mjomba wako bichwa nini....? Maana unaongea kama umeshazimu mbili tatu vile....hahahahaha

....aisee jamaaa wamekomaaa na hiyo plagiarism....duuuhh.........lakini sioni ubaya kutumia usemi wa mwenzako as long as one must acknowledge kuwa amechukua msemo w afulani....the point is made......

kwa mara nyingine namuona Obama anakuwa moved na vijimaneno vya Mama.......tena aliposema "I have a dream" kuonyesha kuwa haina ubaya...as long as you make your point loud clear

...sidhani kama ni jambo baya...........thats my opinion

Kambi ya mama walivyolivalia hili swala njuka mpaka Wolfson amekaa kwenye maconference call , lakini hili tulilitegemea once you are a front runner kila kitu kitarushwa your way...

Forget the Kool-Aid: Obama's Support is Real

With Barack Obama's bandwagon picking up speed, Hillary Clinton's sympathizers have been pushing a new caricature of their opponent: the cultish figure who seduces the weak-kneed masses with vague and meaningless but oh-so-warm-feeling generalities.

"There was something just a wee bit creepy," Time's Joe Klein, a Bill and Hillary stalwart, recently wrote, "about the mass messianism…of (Obama's) Super Tuesday speech and the recent turn of the Obama campaign."

Alex Joseph, a student at Georgetown University who supports Clinton, boasted in a Slate column of his unique-for-his-generation ability to resist the siren Obama's call.

"At Georgetown," he informed us, "the Obama supporters—devotees? cultists?—are everywhere." Soma Zaidi hapa

Haya Gov Patrick ameelezea, lakini naona bado tuu kambi ya mama inataka kulivalia njuga hili swala


CHICAGO — Senator Barack Obama adapted one of his signature arguments — that his oratory amounts to more than inspiring words — from speeches given by Gov. Deval Patrick of Massachusetts during his 2006 campaign.

At a Democratic Party dinner Saturday in Wisconsin, Mr. Obama, of Illinois, responded to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, who has criticized him for delivering smooth speeches but says they do not amount to solutions to the nation’s problems, by ticking through a string of historic references.

“Don’t tell me words don’t matter,” Mr. Obama said, to applause. “ ‘I have a dream’ — just words? ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal’ — just words? ‘We have nothing to fear but fear itself’ — just words? Just speeches?”

Mr. Patrick employed similar language during his 2006 governor’s race when his Republican rival, Kerry Healey, criticized him as offering lofty rhetoric over specifics. Mr. Patrick has endorsed Mr. Obama, and the two men are close friends.

“ ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal’ — just words? Just words?” Mr. Patrick said one month before his election. “ ‘We have nothing to fear but fear itself’ — just words? ‘Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.’ Just words? ‘I have a dream’ — just words?”

In a telephone interview on Sunday, Mr. Patrick said that he and Mr. Obama first talked about the attacks from their respective rivals last summer, when Mrs. Clinton was raising questions about Mr. Obama’s experience, and that they discussed them again last week.

Both men had anticipated that Mr. Obama’s rhetorical strength would provide a point of criticism. Mr. Patrick said he told Mr. Obama that he should respond to the criticism, and he shared language from his campaign with Mr. Obama’s speechwriters.

Mr. Patrick said he did not believe Mr. Obama should give him credit.

“Who knows who I am? The point is more important than whose argument it is,” said Mr. Patrick, who telephoned The New York Times at the request of the Obama campaign. “It’s a transcendent argument.”

David Axelrod, the chief strategist for Mr. Obama who also advised Mr. Patrick, said Sunday that Mr. Obama adapted the words from Mr. Patrick. Mr. Axelrod said that he did not write the words for either candidate.

“They often riff off one another. They share a world view,” Mr. Axelrod said. “Both of them are effective speakers whose words tend to get requoted and arguments tend to be embraced widely.”

The similarities from a passage of Mr. Obama’s speech on Saturday and in remarks that Mr. Patrick delivered on Oct. 15, 2006, were highlighted by a rival campaign that did not want to be identified. Clips of both speeches are archived on the Web site YouTube.com.

In their fight for the Democratic nomination, Mrs. Clinton has sought to turn one of Mr. Obama’s attributes — his oratory — against him by warning voters that his elevated language does not necessarily mean that he will deliver on his promises. “Speeches don’t put food on the table,” she told voters last week in Ohio, arguing that she offers solutions, not just rhetoric.

As Mr. Obama responded last week, his voice rose several decibels.

“It’s true that speeches don’t solve all problems,” he said. “But what is also true if we cannot inspire the country to believe again, it doesn’t matter how many policies and plans we have.”

Icadon said:

......................The point is more important than whose argument it is,” ...................”

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.........absolutely!!!!

“It’s true that speeches don’t solve all problems,” he said. “But what is also true if we cannot inspire the country to believe again, it doesn’t matter how many policies and plans we have.”

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Very strong!

Icadon said:

Haya Gov Patrick ameelezea, lakini naona bado tuu kambi ya mama inataka kulivalia njuga hili swala


CHICAGO — Senator Barack Obama adapted one of his signature arguments — that his oratory amounts to more than inspiring words — from speeches given by Gov. Deval Patrick of Massachusetts during his 2006 campaign.

At a Democratic Party dinner Saturday in Wisconsin, Mr. Obama, of Illinois, responded to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, who has criticized him for delivering smooth speeches but says they do not amount to solutions to the nation’s problems, by ticking through a string of historic references.

“Don’t tell me words don’t matter,” Mr. Obama said, to applause. “ ‘I have a dream’ — just words? ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal’ — just words? ‘We have nothing to fear but fear itself’ — just words? Just speeches?”

Mr. Patrick employed similar language during his 2006 governor’s race when his Republican rival, Kerry Healey, criticized him as offering lofty rhetoric over specifics. Mr. Patrick has endorsed Mr. Obama, and the two men are close friends.

“ ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal’ — just words? Just words?” Mr. Patrick said one month before his election. “ ‘We have nothing to fear but fear itself’ — just words? ‘Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.’ Just words? ‘I have a dream’ — just words?”

In a telephone interview on Sunday, Mr. Patrick said that he and Mr. Obama first talked about the attacks from their respective rivals last summer, when Mrs. Clinton was raising questions about Mr. Obama’s experience, and that they discussed them again last week.

Both men had anticipated that Mr. Obama’s rhetorical strength would provide a point of criticism. Mr. Patrick said he told Mr. Obama that he should respond to the criticism, and he shared language from his campaign with Mr. Obama’s speechwriters.

Mr. Patrick said he did not believe Mr. Obama should give him credit.

“Who knows who I am? The point is more important than whose argument it is,” said Mr. Patrick, who telephoned The New York Times at the request of the Obama campaign. “It’s a transcendent argument.”

David Axelrod, the chief strategist for Mr. Obama who also advised Mr. Patrick, said Sunday that Mr. Obama adapted the words from Mr. Patrick. Mr. Axelrod said that he did not write the words for either candidate.

“They often riff off one another. They share a world view,” Mr. Axelrod said. “Both of them are effective speakers whose words tend to get requoted and arguments tend to be embraced widely.”

The similarities from a passage of Mr. Obama’s speech on Saturday and in remarks that Mr. Patrick delivered on Oct. 15, 2006, were highlighted by a rival campaign that did not want to be identified. Clips of both speeches are archived on the Web site YouTube.com.

In their fight for the Democratic nomination, Mrs. Clinton has sought to turn one of Mr. Obama’s attributes — his oratory — against him by warning voters that his elevated language does not necessarily mean that he will deliver on his promises. “Speeches don’t put food on the table,” she told voters last week in Ohio, arguing that she offers solutions, not just rhetoric.

As Mr. Obama responded last week, his voice rose several decibels.

“It’s true that speeches don’t solve all problems,” he said. “But what is also true if we cannot inspire the country to believe again, it doesn’t matter how many policies and plans we have.”

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Hillary plagiarizes Obama

http://www.youtube.com/v/_8f9aN2uSpo&rel=1


http://www.youtube.com/v/rweVOO-fhug&rel=1

Nyani Ngabu said:

Hahahahahaha...wewe kweli ni kibaraka wa Osama. Hebu niambie basi hiyo funeral ya Colleta ilikuwa kampeni ya nani? We ulikuwa umealikwa kwa mjomba wako bichwa nini....? Maana unaongea kama umeshazimu mbili tatu vile....hahahahaha

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siwezi kukushawishi zaidi juu ya hilo la kampeni msibani, kwani sadly upo blind sided!!!

tungi bado, me, myself and I we're in a heated debate, juu ya kupata tungi usiku huu!!! kwahiyo acha ku-smear, nipo sober!.

BRAZAMENI said:

Hillary plagiarizes Obama

http://www.youtube.com/v/_8f9aN2uSpo&rel=1


http://www.youtube.com/v/rweVOO-fhug&rel=1

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....Mkuu BRAZAMENI..........wooww you got her....you got her......hahahahah "Yes We Can" & "We are Fired up and we are ready to Go"..........

the bottom line ni kuw ahakuna ubaya kama unaona misemo fulani inakufanya point zako zinakuwa loud and Clear.....period

Ogah said:

....Mkuu BRAZAMENI..........wooww you got her....you got her......hahahahah "Yes We Can" & "We are Fired up and we are ready to Go"..........

the bottom line ni kuw ahakuna ubaya kama unaona misemo fulani inakufanya point zako zinakuwa loud and Clear.....period

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Hahahaha...hizo phrase mbona ni za kawaida kabisa? Kila siku watu mi nawasikia wakisema..I'm fired up' and 'ready to go'...sasa Mama hapo kakopi nini? Osama yeye kakopi kipande kizima cha spichi ya gavana hadi matamshi na inflection...that is so wrong. You don't copy even the delivery....geeez!!

One other thing about those Clinton events yesterday: The woman is not at all bashful about stealing from her rivals. Between the two events, I counted six rhetorical turns I've heard other candidates employ: She talked about goals "I hope will bring our country together," a la Barack Obama. In response to a question about excessive partisanship, she talked about how she's not running to be president of the states that voted for Democrats, she's running to be president of the United States. This closely resembles Obama's "I don't want to pit red America against blue America. I want to be the President of the United States of America." She said she didn't want to be part of the first generation of Americans that didn't leave the country better off than when they inherited it, which recalls John Edwards's line about how we don't want to be the first generation of Americans whose children do worse in life than they did. She talked about how, if video stores can keep track of their tapes and DVDs, surely we can keep track of people here on visas, many of whom overstay them and become illegal immigrants. I've heard Edwards make the same point, except he explicitly cites Blockbuster. She argued that our young men and women in Iraq are doing everything we ask of them; it's the Bush administration and the Iraqi government who are letting them down. Edwards has argued that our soldiers have done everything we've asked of them; it's our government that's letting them down. Finally, she made the point that opposing comprehensive immigration reform is tantamount to supporting amnesty, because it allows the present situation to continue. I've heard John McCain make the same point.

Why she makes a big deal out of it while she does the same thing?

Hivi kwa nini kaka Barack anaonekana kukwepa debates na dada Hillary? Au ndio yaleyale ya JK wetu ya kukataa debates na akina Lipumba 2005?