Nyani Ngabu
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Maneno meeeengi vitendo hewa....
Maneno meeeengi vitendo hewa....
vitendo gani!!?......... Jonathan Alter wa Newsweek anaita kwa Hillary kujitoa na ku-endorse Obama kabla ya March 4!!! kimsingi anampa pa kutokea @least gracefully maana otherwise billary watakuwa wameumbuka kupita kiasi! what??
ile mie niliona live kwenye harball....what happened ni kwamba chris mathwes alimkamata jamaa off guard na ile tabia yake ya kuulizwa swali, halafu kabla hujajibu anaku-cut off!!! jamaa sio pro, kwahiyo ndio ikawa vile!!! big deal. Unakumbuka ile words brawl ya Chris na Zell Miller??, Zell Miller akasema "get off my face"!! kuna uwekano haikuwa imepangwa jamaa kuulizwa lile swali, hivyo hakuwa kajiandaa. It was dirty journalism from Chris.
Yes napenda MSNBC, na show yangu kubwa ni "countdown" by Keith Oberman....unaweza ku-guess why!! LOL.
Hahahahaha....Ican't stand Keith Olberman...
Zell Miller is the man....alimshikisha adabu Chris
Hapa nyumbani kwangu sasa hivi CNN na MSNBC marufuku...
Maombo yote Sean Hannity....halafu umesikia kuhusu pastor wa Obama?
Obama ni msomali?
Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., right, is dressed as a Somali Elder by Sheikh Mahmed Hassan, left, during his visit to Wajir, a rural area in northeastern Kenya, near the borders with Somalia and Ethiopia in this file photo from Aug. 27, 2006. The garb was presented to Obama by elders in Wajir. Obama's estranged late father was Kenyan and Obama visited the country in 2006, attracting thousands of well-wishers.
(AP Photo)
Obama looks awfully ridiculous in that picture....eeewwwww...
Clinton's communications team, led by Howard Wolfson, is not leaving Drudge to the Republicans. Five current and former Democratic officials said Clinton has on her side the closest thing her party has ever had to Rhoades [a GOP leaker to Drudge] in Tracy Sefl, a former Democratic National Committee official. The officials said that Sefl had established a friendly relationship with Drudge and that Clinton's campaign often worked quietly through her to open a line of communication with Drudge.
Tracy Sefl is a Vice President in the Public Affairs practice of The Glover Park Group. At GPG, she advises a range of clients including labor unions, policy groups, and Fortune 500 corporations. She brings particular communications expertise to issue advocacy campaigns and Presidential politics, as well as elite messaging for corporate executives.
Prior to joining GPG, Ms. Sefl launched and directed communications and research for the national advocacy group Wal-Mart Watch. There, she helmed a successful campaign to make emergency contraception available in Wal-Mart's U.S. pharmacies and garnered international media attention for studies on Wal-Mart wage and policy issues. She has advised progressive groups on judicial nominees, served as research director for a national women's rights group, and was a charter member of the American University Young Women Leaders Board. During the 2004 presidential campaign, she served as an advisor to the Chairman Terry McAuliffe of the Democratic National Committee and conducted rapid response in the Kerry-Edwards war room. She remains an advisor to McAuliffe and helped direct the national earned media campaign for his New York Times best-selling memoir.
Asked by ABC News on Monday if she gave the photo to the DrudgeReport, Sefl, who is vice president at the Glover Park Group, said, "no."
Like Wolfson, she could not speak for all Clinton campaign associates.
Asked if she has contacted the DrudgeReport to seek a correction to its claim that the Clinton campaign is the source of the photo, she said, "No comment."
Nyie naona u-pundit umeshawashinda mnaendekeza ushabiki tu, ngoja niende zangu Real Clear Politics!
On the stump, Sen. John McCain often cites his work tackling the excesses of disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff as evidence of his sturdy ethical compass.
A little-known document, however, shows that McCain may have taken steps to protect his Republican colleagues from the scope of his investigation.
In the 2006 Senate report concerning Abramoff's activities, which McCain spearheaded, the Arizona Republican conspicuously left out information detailing how Alabama Gov. Bob Riley was targeted by Abramoff's influence peddling scheme. Riley, a Republican, won election in November 2002, and was reelected in 2006.
In a December 2002 email obtained by the Huffington Post -- which McCain and his staff had access to prior to the issuance of his report -- Abramoff explains to an aide what he would like to see Riley do in return for the "help" he received from Abramoff's tribal clients.
An official with the Mississippi Choctaws "definitely wants Riley to shut down the Poarch Creek operation," Abramoff wrote, "including his announcing that anyone caught gambling there can't qualify for a state contract or something like that."
The note showed not only the reach of Abramoff, but raised questions about Riley's victory in what was the closest gubernatorial election in Alabama history.
And yet, despite the implications of the information, McCain and the Senate Indian Affairs Committee sat on the controversial portion of the email. According to an official familiar with the investigation, McCain also subsequently refused to make the email public after the report was released.
There was a brief footnote in the report that quoted William Worfel, former vice chairman of the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana, saying that Abramoff told the chief of a Mississippi tribe to spend $13 million "to get the governor of Alabama elected to keep gaming out of Alabama so it wouldn't hurt ... his market in Mississippi."
But Riley's name and the details of what was being asked of him were not mentioned once in the 373-page document.
Indeed, as the Associated Press noted in 2006, McCain stayed deliberately agnostic as to Riley's involvement. "The committee headed by Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, used the ellipses and did not give the full quotation," the AP said of Worfel's quote. "It also did not say in its report whether it thought the comment was fact or fiction."
Officials with Riley's office pointed to a statement from the Choctaw tribe alleging that reports of their contributions to Riley were "outlandish and patently false." As for the governor's opposition to gambling, Riley's press secretary said he has "consistently [opposed gambling] before he decided to run for governor and since. Anyone who would suggest his long-standing opposition to gambling is tied to anything other than personal conviction would be mistaken."
McCain's campaign did not return request for comment. For critics, however, the senator's decision not to include the email in his report underscores not only a glaring shortcoming of his investigation, but also a chink in his political veneer. Indeed, they claim, the Arizona Republican often takes overt steps to protect Republican colleagues from his anti-corruption dragnets.
"Although Sen. McCain has long bragged of his role in the Abramoff investigation, he let Tom DeLay and the other members of Congress who were doing Abramoff's bidding completely off the hook. The sole exception was Rep. Bob Ney, who served time in prison," Melanie Sloan, Executive Director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics In Washington told the Huffington Post recently. "Sen. McCain knew what his colleagues were up to, he chose to take the easier path and give them a free pass."
Faced with this criticism in the past, McCain has claimed that it was not his responsibility to "involve ourselves in the ethics process [of senators]." Others have defended McCain by pointing out that the committee approved the report by a bipartisan 13-0 vote.
But it is hard to ignore the political consequences of not exposing the Abramoff-Riley connection.
Just prior to the 2002 election, word leaked that federal prosecutors in Alabama -- appointed by President Bush -- were investigating allegations that then Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman had offered a state-appointed position in exchange for money to help an education program. Siegelman ultimately lost to Riley by less than 3,000 votes.
"It obviously didn't help," said Dr. Sam Fisher, a political science professor at the University of South Alabama, of the leaks. "And there were certain ethical issues about how that was done. It was definitely a close race and giving a close race any negative thing can make a difference."
That Riley had taken a position favored by Abramoff, whether coincidentally or not, wasn't known at the time. While Abramoff's aide, Michael Scanlon (a former aide to Riley), gave $100,000 to Riley's campaign, Riley had previously opposed gambling in the state. In the late 1990s, he signed a fundraising letter lobbying against the building of a casino within Alabama. "We need your help today," the letter, which reflected another Abramoff objective, read, "to prevent the Poarch Creek Indians from building casinos in Alabama."
Siegelman soldiered on after the 2002 loss, running again for governor against Riley in 2006. By then, the extent of Riley's connection to Abramoff was still unknown. Moreover, Siegelman was still under investigation for allegations of bribery. The inquiry, detailed in an extensive 60 Minutes report last night, raised many ethical red flags, mainly over political interference from the Bush administration, specifically Karl Rove. On June 22, McCain issued his Senate report without mentioning Riley's name. And one week later, Siegelman was convicted without the Abramoff email ever being made public.
"If you had a document that showed something that had not been reported about the financial reports and the direct expectations for that money," said a source familiar with the case, "that certainly would have called into attention the government's case against Siegelman."
Obama ni chaguo la Mungu kama alivyokuwa Kikwete na hamna haja yoyote ya kampeni. Wamwapishe mambo yaishe. Obama Obama Obama Obama....
Obama ni chaguo la Mungu kama alivyokuwa Kikwete na hamna haja yoyote ya kampeni. Wamwapishe mambo yaishe. Obama Obama Obama Obama....
John McCain backtracked Monday from his earlier comment that he could lose the presidential race over the Iraq war.
On Monday morning, McCain had told reporters that if he can't convince the American people the United States is succeeding, "then I lose. I lose," according to the Associated Press.
"We quickly retracted that," McCain later said of the comment. "I was not allowed to retract it, obviously. I don't mean that I'll quote lose.' I mean that it's an important issue in the judgment of the American voters.
"I hope that that clarifies, it's not often that I retract a comment. I retracted the finality of that statement. I think the issue of the war in Iraq we all know is important to the American people and will be a major factor in their determining who they are going to support in the election in November," he said.
McCain also told CNN's Dana Bash that "I think that clearly my fortunes have a lot to do with what's happening in Iraq. And I'm proud of that because Sen. Clinton and Sen. Obama said we will not succeed militarily and we have."