US Election Coverage 2008

[Rev. Kishoka]

Hata Obama hawezi kupata magic number ya 2025...so what's your point?

Candidate with most votes takes it all not special seats (viti maalumu kama CCM)!

 

[William J. Malecela]

WASHINGTON - Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean urged Florida and Michigan party officials to come up with plans to repeat their presidential nominating contests so that their delegates can be counted.

1. Kama nilivyotabiri, hizi juu wakuu sio good news kwa Jaluo.

2. Jaluo kuwa mgombea mwenza, itakuwa over yaani mwisho wake, maana katika hiyo miaka minne wazugnu watamtafuta mpaka watampata na noma, maana mkumbuke kuwa wazungu sasa hivi wanajiuliza huyu Jaluo mweusi amefikiaje kuwasumbua hivi na hana hata criminal rekodi?

3. I mean uchaguzi haujaisha ndio kwanza umeanza, lakini nina-smell noma tupu huko mbele ya safari kwa Jaluo!

 

[KadaMpinzani]

obama kuwa mgombea mwenza sidhani kama atakubali maana anajua BILL will be sucking up all the air na kujambajamba ovyo ndani ya oval office, kwanza picha haziendi !

obama akikubali kuwa VP basi amekwisha kabisa, otherwise akatae na asubiri 2012 iwapo atashindwa mwaka huu!!

 

[Icadon]

I think spin zote na matumaini yote ya kupata nomination kwenye primaries yanaishia hapa...fate zao hawa ziko mikononi mwa super delegates.
Najua mawhities sasa hivi wamenuna tuu inakuwaje mweusi anawasumbua hivi.

By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 29 minutes ago

Hillary Rodham Clinton won't catch Barack Obama in the race for Democratic delegates chosen in primaries and caucuses, even if she wins every remaining contest.

But Obama cannot win the nomination with just his pledged primary and caucus delegates either, according to an analysis by The Associated Press.

That sets the stage for a pitched battle for support among "superdelegates," the party and elected officials who automatically attend the convention and can support whomever they choose.

Two months into the voting, Obama can claim the most delegates chosen by voters.

Clinton can claim victories in most of the big states.

What should a superdelegate do? Unsurprisingly, the two campaigns have different takes on that question.

"It is very difficult to see any scenario that Hillary Clinton would get the nomination in a way that doesn't rip the party apart," said Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle, an Obama supporter. "I think that it would be a terrible mistake for the Democrats to not accept the will of the people who have turned out in primaries and caucuses."

Clinton spokesman Doug Hattaway said Obama's lead in pledged delegates is "hardly a mandate."

"Some superdelegates will go with (the) pledged delegate count, but many will go with the candidate they think can win," Hattaway said. "We have a very compelling case to make on that front, given that we're winning general election swing states, must-win states and must-win constituencies."

Clinton won three out of four primaries this week, giving her campaign a much-needed boost after a month of defeats.

But she picked up only 12 more delegates than Obama, leaving him with a 140-delegate lead among those won in primaries and caucuses. There are only 614 delegates available in the remaining contests, meaning Clinton would have to win about 62 percent of the them to overtake Obama, according to the AP analysis.

That's nearly impossible, given the way Democrats award delegates proportionally.

Consider this: Clinton posted a big win in the Ohio primary Tuesday, beating Obama by about 10 percentage points. Her take: nine more delegates than him in the Buckeye State.

In the Texas primary, Clinton's margin of victory was smaller, about 3 percentage points, and her net gain was smaller, too: four more delegates than Obama. Obama could wipe out most or all of that advantage if early returns showing him winning in the Texas caucuses hold up. Final results won't be available until the party's county conventions at the end of month.

The message to be taken from Clinton's victories, again, depends on which campaign is doing the spinning.

"In order to have a plausible path to the nomination, they needed to score huge delegate victories and cut into our lead," Obama campaign manager David Plouffe said in an e-mail to supporters. "They failed."

Clinton's campaign pointed to her earlier victories in states like New Jersey, New York and California, and they questioned why Obama couldn't win in Texas and Ohio on Tuesday.

"We think she can bring Ohio in a general election," said Harold Ickes, a chief strategist for Clinton. "We are not sure (Obama) can do that."

The biggest remaining primary is in Pennsylvania, which will have 158 delegates at stake on April 22.

Clinton's team is optimistic about her chances there. She'll be campaigning hard in the state, as will Ed Rendell, Pennsylvania's popular governor, who is an enthusiastic supporter.

Obama is expected to win the Wyoming caucuses Saturday and the Mississippi primary next Tuesday, but Clinton is competing in both states to hold down his delegate accumulation. Her advisers acknowledge their past system of focusing on certain states and largely ignoring others — particularly those holding caucuses — was a mistake and helped Obama build a significant lead among pledged delegates.

Obama has won nominating contests in 27 states and territories, giving him the lead in pledged delegates, 1,360 to 1,220. Even if he wins every remaining pledged delegate — including 33 that haven't been awarded from previous races — he will fall short of the 2,025 needed to secure the Democratic nomination.

That's where the superdelegates come in, the nearly 800 party and elected officials who will decide the nomination if both candidates stay in the race.

Clinton leads in endorsements from superdelegates, 242 to 209. But that lead has shrunk in the past month. Since an AP survey the week of Super Tuesday, Obama has added 53 superdelegates, while Clinton has had a net loss of one.

In the overall race for the nomination, Obama has 1,569 delegates, to 1,462 for Clinton, according to the latest AP tally.

The lobbying of superdelegates has been fierce, with at least six Clinton superdelegates switching to Obama. So far, none of Obama's superdelegates has strayed, at least not publicly.

David Parker, an undecided superdelegate from North Carolina, said he has been pressured by both sides to endorse. He offered some insight on how the outcome of the primaries and caucuses would influence his vote.

"In a fairly tight race — 35-50 votes — I think superdelegates have got a green light to vote how they want," Parker said. "If Obama's out there at 150, that's a red light, and I don't think the superdelegates have much business subverting the will of voters."

But, he added, "Every once in a while some people run red lights."

___

Associated Press writers Beth Fouhy in Washington, Scott Bauer in Madison, Wis., and Mike Baker in Raleigh, N.C., contributed to this report.

 

[Nyani Ngabu]

NN,

Unaonaje hii idea kwamba kama watu wanampenda Obama na kidogo wako na wasiwasi kuhusu uzoefu wake basi wanaweza kumpa nafasi mama halafu yeye ndio atamchagua Obama kwa mgombea mwenza wake?

That will be awesome...

 

[Nyani Ngabu]

Candidate with most votes takes it all not special seats (viti maalumu kama CCM)!

So what's the point of having these super delegates?

 

[KadaMpinzani]

mwaka wa jana (2007) january (obama alitangaza kugombea urais feb-2007) kama kuna mtu angeulizwa swali je obama angefikia hatua ya kusumbua political machine ambayo imekuwa established for more than 35 years kama hillary sidhani kama watu wangekuwa na hoja za matumaini yoyote juu ya obama ! na ndio maana hata hillary mwenyewe aliamua kuoverspend pesa zake nyingi na kuamua kununua donuts za $ 1,300 na ushee akidhani kwamba ikifita SUPER TUESDAY obama atakuwa mahututi, but guess what ! hillary alikuwa akijiongopea mnoooo, na hadi sasa hivi ishajulikana kwamba hata republicans wenyewe kumshinda obama itakuwa game tight, na sasa nini wanachoamua kufanya, kumpigia debe hillary na kumkandia obama (kwa kujificha) kumbe nia zao ni kwamba hillary awe nominee then waanze kumshushia ukoko aliouficha miaka yote hiyo !

Na kumbukeni kwamba katika siasa (in my opinion) za marekani hakuna watu wabaya, yaani tena EVIL kama Rush Limbaugh na Karl Rove, hawa watu ni wa kuogopwa sana tena sana !

 

[KadaMpinzani]

So what's the point of having these super delegates?

iwapo weak candidate atakuwa amechaguliwa, then super delegates wana uwezo wa kum-over turn ( ina maana chama hakiwaamini wapiga kura) ila kasheshe ya mwaka huu naona hakuna weak candidate isipokuwa tu hillary ana kama lori nne za uchafu ambao republican wanasubiri kwa hamu wamshushie iwapo atakuwa nominee !

na hadi hivi sasa obama katoa almost $135,000 kwa superdelegates ili wamchague wakati clinton katoa almost $115,000 ili achaguliwe ! YAANI DEMS. WANAIJUA TAKRIMA YA KULEEEEEEEEEEEEEE nyumbani !

 

[Icadon]

Kada, its good to see you around...lol umenichekesha kuwa Dems wanajua Takrima..kuna siku nilikuwa naangalia CNN walikuwa wanamuoji yule Super delegate mdogo kuliko wote walizungumzia kiasi ambacho hawa candidates wametoa kwa other super delegates...

Naona NAFTA imekuwa NAFTA sasa, soma kipande hapa chini

Brodie told reporters that the Clinton campaign had called the Canadian embassy in Washington to tell officials to take her anti-NAFTA rhetoric "with a grain of salt," said local media

 

[KadaMpinzani]

nafikri hata mie niliangalia, na ndio maana akina Donna Brazile (baadhi yao) walisema kwamba superdelegates, itakuwa mchezo wa backroom deal, *yaani hapa mchezo wa pesa na kuahidiana vyeo iwapo utamchagua either one*..kwamba watajitoa kwenye hiyo ishu ya usuper delegate !!

uzuri ni kwamba, yoyote yule anaweza kuwa super-delegate kama kweli utakuwa the so called "jamaa wa chama".

huyu hillary inaelekea amekasirika sana na ishu nzima ya NAFTA, na ukweli ni kwamba mumewe ndiye aliyepush ule uozo na yeye alikuwa aki-ride tu, na nadhani ndio maana katika kuiepuka alikuwa HASEMI directly kwamba haisapoti NAFTA maana anajua watu wangemstrip off experience anayoclaim kuwa nayo wakati HANA !

kila anapotamka neno experience nasikia kichefuchefu maana huyu anti ni mbabaishaji !

 

[Sam]

What's wrong with being Muslim? Kwa nini huyu Obama akiambiwa yeye ni muislamu anaanza kuweweseka na kukasiria? What's wrong with being Muslim? Mimi nilikuwa najua Islam ni dini ya haki na kweli. Mara oohh baba yangu alikuwa mkristo akabadilisha dini kuwa muislamu.. eti if you at at the facts sijawahi kuwa muislamu. WTF. Umezaliwa na baba muislamu na umetunzwa na baba muislamu hapo ulipofika ni kwa sababu ya matunzo mazuri ya kiislamu kama Malcom X. Nadhani njia nzuri ya yeye kujitetea ni kuelimisha jamii kuwa there is nothing wrong with being Muslim. Louis Farrakhan alimu-endorse akadaie eti ema-denounce his endorsement? WTF. Just because he is the president of Nation of Islam? Eti niliapa kwa biblia ya familia..who cares? what's wrong with your future president?

 

[KadaMpinzani]

hapo ^, elewa kwamba saa nyingine inabidi mtu uchukue precautions, saa nyingine pia itabidi ukubali kosa hata kama hujakosa ili "utimize" haja yako, sasa we never know what the man, obama, really is ! acheni kwanza amalize haja yake "kugombea urais" then maswali hayo ya msingi ndio yangefaa yaulizwe !

 

[Sam]

Mmh nimetoa hii kwenye website ya Nation of Islam

.....................................................
What The Muslims Believe
.....................................................

1. WE BELIEVE In the One God whose proper Name is Allah.

2. WE BELIEVE in the Holy Qur'an and in the Scriptures of all the Prophets of God.

3. WE BELIEVE in the truth of the Bible, but we believe that it has been tampered with and must be reinterpreted so that mankind will not be snared by the falsehoods that have been added to it.

4. WE BELIEVE in Allah's Prophets and the Scriptures they brought to the people.

5. WE BELIEVE in the the resurrection of the dead--not in physical resurrection--but in mental resurrection. We believe that the so-called Negroes are most in need of mental resurrection; therefore they will be resurrected first.

Furthermore, we believe we are the people of God's choice, as it has been written, that God would choose the rejected and the despised. We can find no other persons fitting this description in these last days more that the so-called Negroes in America. We believe in the resurrection of the righteous.

6. WE BELIEVE in the judgment; we believe this first judgment will take place as God revealed, in America...

7. WE BELIEVE this is the time in history for the separation of the so-called Negroes and the so-called white Americans. We believe the black man should be freed in name as well as in fact. By this we mean that he should be freed from the names imposed upon him by his former slave masters. Names which identified him as being the slave master's slave. We believe that if we are free indeed, we should go in our own people's names--the black people of the Earth.

8. WE BELIEVE in justice for all, whether in God or not; we believe as others, that we are due equal justice as human beings. We believe in equality--as a nation--of equals. We do not believe that we are equal with our slave masters in the status of "freed slaves."

We recognize and respect American citizens as independent peoples and we respect their laws which govern this nation.

9. WE BELIEVE that the offer of integration is hypocritical and is made by those who are trying to deceive the black peoples into believing that their 400-year-old open enemies of freedom, justice and equality are, all of a sudden, their "friends." Furthermore, we believe that such deception is intended to prevent black people from realizing that the time in history has arrived for the separation from the whites of this nation.


If the white people are truthful about their professed friendship toward the so-called Negro, they can prove it by dividing up America with their slaves.

We do not believe that America will ever be able to furnish enough jobs for her own millions of unemployed, in addition to jobs for the 20,000,000 black people as well.

10. WE BELIEVE that we who declare ourselves to be righteous Muslims, should not participate in wars which take the lives of humans. We do not believe this nation should force us to take part in such wars, for we have nothing to gain from it unless America agrees to give us the necessary territory wherein we may have something to fight for.

11. WE BELIEVE our women should be respected and protected as the women of other nationalities are respected and protected.

12. WE BELIEVE that Allah (God) appeared in the Person of Master W. Fard Muhammad, July, 1930; the long-awaited "Messiah" of the Christians and the "Mahdi" of the Muslims.

We believe further and lastly that Allah is God and besides HIM there is no god and He will bring about a universal government of peace wherein we all can live in peace together.


--I guess
13. Change we can BELIVE in'

 

[KadaMpinzani]

Mmh nimetoa hii kwenye website ya Nation of Islam

.....................................................
What The Muslims Believe
.....................................................

1. WE BELIEVE In the One God whose proper Name is Allah.

2. WE BELIEVE in the Holy Qur'an and in the Scriptures of all the Prophets of God.

3. WE BELIEVE in the truth of the Bible, but we believe that it has been tampered with and must be reinterpreted so that mankind will not be snared by the falsehoods that have been added to it.

4. WE BELIEVE in Allah's Prophets and the Scriptures they brought to the people.

5. WE BELIEVE in the the resurrection of the dead--not in physical resurrection--but in mental resurrection. We believe that the so-called Negroes are most in need of mental resurrection; therefore they will be resurrected first.

Furthermore, we believe we are the people of God's choice, as it has been written, that God would choose the rejected and the despised. We can find no other persons fitting this description in these last days more that the so-called Negroes in America. We believe in the resurrection of the righteous.

6. WE BELIEVE in the judgment; we believe this first judgment will take place as God revealed, in America...

7. WE BELIEVE this is the time in history for the separation of the so-called Negroes and the so-called white Americans. We believe the black man should be freed in name as well as in fact. By this we mean that he should be freed from the names imposed upon him by his former slave masters. Names which identified him as being the slave master's slave. We believe that if we are free indeed, we should go in our own people's names--the black people of the Earth.

8. WE BELIEVE in justice for all, whether in God or not; we believe as others, that we are due equal justice as human beings. We believe in equality--as a nation--of equals. We do not believe that we are equal with our slave masters in the status of "freed slaves."

We recognize and respect American citizens as independent peoples and we respect their laws which govern this nation.

9. WE BELIEVE that the offer of integration is hypocritical and is made by those who are trying to deceive the black peoples into believing that their 400-year-old open enemies of freedom, justice and equality are, all of a sudden, their "friends." Furthermore, we believe that such deception is intended to prevent black people from realizing that the time in history has arrived for the separation from the whites of this nation.


If the white people are truthful about their professed friendship toward the so-called Negro, they can prove it by dividing up America with their slaves.

We do not believe that America will ever be able to furnish enough jobs for her own millions of unemployed, in addition to jobs for the 20,000,000 black people as well.

10. WE BELIEVE that we who declare ourselves to be righteous Muslims, should not participate in wars which take the lives of humans. We do not believe this nation should force us to take part in such wars, for we have nothing to gain from it unless America agrees to give us the necessary territory wherein we may have something to fight for.

11. WE BELIEVE our women should be respected and protected as the women of other nationalities are respected and protected.

12. WE BELIEVE that Allah (God) appeared in the Person of Master W. Fard Muhammad, July, 1930; the long-awaited "Messiah" of the Christians and the "Mahdi" of the Muslims.

We believe further and lastly that Allah is God and besides HIM there is no god and He will bring about a universal government of peace wherein we all can live in peace together.


--I guess
13. Change we can BELIVE in'

kijana,
plz naomba ufute huu ushuzi wako bana, maana sasa ni kinyaa kupita kiasi !
kwanza ni misleading arguments zilizopo hapo juu, bila ya kupoteza muda na space, plz naomba ufute huo upupu !

 

[Koba]

kada achana na huyo misinformed,anachojua ni copy & paste chochote anachookota...hana hoja kazi yake ni kuja hapa kumsifia Nyani tuu.

 

[Game Theory]

Barack Obama rides a tricycle during
his childhood in Hawaii. (Photo
courtesy of Maya Soetoro-Ng)

The 1960 high school yearbook
photo of Stanley Ann Dunham,
Barack Obama's mother. She
attended Mercer Island High
School in Washington.

THE DUNHAMS: precocious, self-assured Stanley Ann (left);
her impetuous father, who named his only child after himself;
her mother, Madelyn, the quiet, firm influence in the home.
Old friends say they see flashes of them all in Stanley Ann's
son, Sen. Barack Obama. (Photo courtesy of Maya Soetoro-Ng)

Chip Wall, a Mercer Island High School classmate of Barack
Obama's mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, says: "She was not
a standard-issue girl of her times. ... She wasn't part of the
matched-sweater-set crowd." (Tribune photo by Chuck Berman)

Susan Blake, a Mercer Island High School friend of Barack
Obama's mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, says of her
classmate, "Hers was a mind in full tilt." (Tribune photo
by Chuck Berman)

A young Barack Obama is shown
with his mother, Ann, in Hawaii
shortly after his father, Barack
Obama Sr., left the two to pursue
his studies at Harvard. Barack's
mother was given the name
Stanley Ann Dunham because
of her father's strong desire to
have a son. (Photo courtesy of
Maya Soetoro-Ng / March 23,
2007)

Barack walks along Waikiki Beach
shortly before he and his mother
moved from Hawaii to Indonesia
to live with her second husband,
Lolo Soetoro, in 1967. (Photo
courtesy of Maya Soetoro-Ng /
March 23, 2007)

Barack Obama Sr., a native of
Kenya, met his future wife while
they were students at the
University of Hawaii. In 1963,
he essentially abandoned his
family to continue his studies
at Harvard. (Photo courtesy
of Maya Soetoro-Ng / March
23, 2007)

At their home in Jakarta, Ann Dunham poses in this undated
photo with her second husband, Lolo Soetoro, their daughter,
Maya, and Barack Obama. (Photo courtesy of Barack Obama)

Children play at Jakarta’s Elementary School Menteng No. 1,
where Barack Obama was a student in 1970-71. (Getty/AFP
photo by Sonny Tumbelaka / March 23, 2007)

Barack poses with his mother, Ann,
half sister, Maya, and maternal
grandfather Stanley Dunham in
Hawaii in the early 1970s after the
family returned from Indonesia.
Neighbors remember the close
relationship between young Barack
and his grandfather. (Photo
courtesy of Maya Soetoro-Ng /
March 23, 2007)

Barack Obama Sr. poses with his son in the Honolulu airport
during Obama Sr.'s only visit to see his son while he was
growing up in Hawaii. Young Barack was in the 5th grade
when the photo was taken. (Photo courtesy of Barack
Obama / March 23, 2007)

A page from Barack Obama's senior yearbook features his
personalized message to family, friends and teammates.
(Photo from The Oahuan yearbook / March 23, 2007)

In 1979, Barack played for the
Punahou School varsity basketball
team his senior year when the
squad captured the state high
school championship. Although
he was not a starter, he was
an adept long-range shooter,
earning the nickname "Barry
O'Bomber" from his teammates.
(Photo from The Oahuan, the
yearbook of Punahou School
/ March 23, 2007)

Barack Obama poses with the Hawaii high school champs in
this 1979 yearbook photo. Obama, known as Barry then, is
in the top row, far right. The others pictured are identified
as: Front row: Greg Ramos, manager; Chris McLachlin, head
coach; Dan Moore, manager. Second row: Matt Hiu, Alan
Lum, Tom Topolinski, Darin Mauerer, Dan Hale, John Kamana.
Third row: Darryl Gabriel, Boy Eldredge, Greg Orme, Larry
Tavares and Jason Oshima. (Photo from The Oahuan
yearbook / March 23, 2007)

A senior year photo of Keith Kakugawa
from the 1977 edition The Oahuan year
book of Punahou School. In Barack
Obama's autobiography "Dreams from
My Father," he described his friendship
with an angry young man named "Ray"
who railed against the racisim of their
elite prep school. "Ray" was later revealed
to be a pseudonym for Kakugawa. (Photo
from The Oahuan yearbook / March 23, 2007)

An undated photo shows Keith Kakugawa,
a forrmer high school classmate of Barack
Obama whom he called "Ray" in his memoir
"Dreams from My Father," during one of his
stints in the California prison system.
(California Department of Corrections photo
/ March 23, 2007)

Barack Obama shakes hands during his graduation ceremony
from Punahou School in 1979. While in his early teens, Obama
chose to stay at the school and live with his grandparents
after his mother decided to move back to Jakarta, Indonesia.
(Photo courtesy of Barack Obama / March 23, 2007)

Barack Obama hugs his younger half
sister Maya at his high school
graduation. (Photo courtesy of Maya
Soetoro-Ng / March 23, 2007)

At his high school graduation, Barack Obama gets a hug from
his grandmother Madelyn as his grandfather Stanley beams.
His maternal grandparents raised Obama in Hawaii while his
mother was living in Indonesia. (Photo courtesy of Maya
Soetoro-Ng / March 23, 2007)

Students at Punahou School in downtown Honolulu hang out
in the campus quad between classes. (Tribune photo by
Chuck Berman / March 23, 2007)

While a student in the late 1970s, Barack Obama carved his
name in the pavement outside the cafeteria of Punahou School.
A representative of the school said she believes "King" was
written by another student. (Tribune photo by Chuck Berman /
March 23, 2007)

Punahou School teacher Pal Eldredge stands in front of the
Castle, where he taught Barack Obama's 5th-grade class.
(Tribune photo by Chuck Berman / March 23, 2007)

Alan Lum stands next to the Oct. 23, 2006, Time magazine
cover featuring his former classmate. Lum is a 2nd-grade
teacher at Punahou School and displays the cover in his
classroom. (Tribune photo by Chuck Berman / March 23, 2007)

 

[Game Theory]

Maya Soetoro-Ng, Barack Obama's half sister, teaches her
Education in American Society class at the University of
Hawaii. (Tribune photo by Chuck Berman / March 23, 2007)

Barack Obama poses at Columbia University in New York City
during a visit by his grandparents Stanley and Madelyn
Dunham. (Photo courtesy of Maya Soetoro-Ng / March 23,
2007)

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Barack Obama with his grandmother, Sarah Hussein Obama, in
Africa

Barack Obama walks with his grandmother
Sarah Hussein Obama at his father's house
in Nyongoma Kogelo village, western Kenya,
in Aug. 2006


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Chicago Sun Times
September 9, 2007
BY SCOTT FORNEK Political Editor

She's really his step-grandmother, but Barack Obama calls her "Granny."

Sarah Hussein Onyango Obama's face was "smooth and big-boned, with sparkling, laughing eyes," Obama wrote in Dreams From My Father of his first visit with her. "She hugged Auma and Roy as if she were going to wrestle them to the ground, then turned to me and grabbed my hand in a hearty handshake."

Sarah Obama was the third wife of Obama's paternal grandfather, Hussein Onyango Obama.

But Barack Obama Jr.'s own father treated Sarah Obama as his natural mother after his biological mother, Akumu, left when her husband moved her and his other wives to another part of Kenya.

Sarah Obama was just 16 when she married Obama's grandfather, an older man who was her father's friend. Arranged marriages and obedience to husbands -- enforced by beatings, if necessary -- were the plight of Kenyan women of her generation, she explained in Obama's book.

" 'Our women have carried a heavy load,' " she says in the book. " 'If one is a fish, one does not try to fly -- one swims with other fish. One only knows what one knows. Perhaps if I was young today, I would not have accepted these things. Perhaps I would only care about my feelings, and falling in love. But that's not the world I was raised in. I only know what I have seen. What I have not seen doesn't make my heart heavy.' "


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Said Hussein Obama

Said Hussein Obama
Barack Obama's uncle


. . . Another shows him seated near a tiny grass thatched house with his uncle, Said Hussein Obama in 1987.

A wedding picture of the young Barack also features prominently in his grandmother's album. Said Hussein Obama, who communicates with his now prominent nephew on the phone and through e-mail, says he remembers him as a young humble man when he came to Nyangoma Kogalo village in 1987 to do research for his autobiography.

"While he could afford to rent a car to criss-cross Nyanza Province as he gathered material on his father, the young man, in his 20s then, squeezed into matatus [taxi buses]... that was his way of knowing the people," Said Hussein Obama says.

- Excerpt from US election makes waves in Kenya, BBC News, Friday, 20 August, 2004. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3581746.stm

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From Vanity Fair
April 2008 Issue

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http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/03/obama_slideshow200803

Two-year-old Barack Hussein
Obama in Honolulu, Hawaii, in
1963. From Polaris.

Barack and his ninth-grade class at Punahou School in 1976. His maternal
grandparents arranged for him to receive a scholarship to the prestigious
Honolulu school. Obama says his grandmother (who became the first female
vice president of the Bank of Hawaii) "injected" into him "a lot of that very
midwestern, sort of traditional sense of prudence and hard work."
Courtesy of Punahou School.

Barack with fellow members of Ka Wai Ola, a literary
magazine at Punahou, in a photo from the Oahuan
yearbook. Barack hid his deepest feelings from the
wealthy world around him at the school, which had
been founded for the children of white missionaries,
in 1841, but he let some of them show in his writing.
Courtesy of Punahou School.

Barack's senior yearbook photo. He signed one friend's
yearbook with a squiggly cartoon of a mound protruding
from the edge of the paper, and the words: "MY AFRO
STICKIN' UP OVER THE TOP AGAIN." Courtesy of
Punahou School.

The newly elected first black president of the Harvard Law Review,
February 1990. His ambitions growing, Obama ran for president during
his second year at Harvard Law. "I probably figured I would practice
law for a while but then be part of some large-scale community-rebuilding
effort," he says. "I don't think at that point that I was absolutely focused
on politics." By Steve Liss/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images.

Michelle Robinson and Barack Obama on their wedding
day, October 18, 1992, with Michelle's mother, Marian
Robinson, at left, and Barack's mother, Ann Dunham.
From Polaris.

 

[Susuviri]

Hizi picha na story zi ziwekwe zaid kwenye blogs na media to answer the question: Who is Barack Obama? Watu wengi in the US ni wavivu wa kusoma na hawako tayari kusoma vitabu vya Barack kuelewa who he is.
Hii stori itawafanya wamarekani waone kumbe ni mwenzao!
Thanks GT, great job!

 

[Masanja]

This race is very interesting to watch!

Unajua wengi wetu especially in the fourth world we have always had this belief that politics is a fair game especially in the western world! Kumbe wapi!

Kwa kweli Jaluo hii kitu ikienda kuamliwa na superdelegates basi mchezo utakuwa mchafu mno na sijui atatoka vipi huko maana atakutana na wazoefu........itakuwa yale ya hapa kwetu "Kamati ya Chama" wanakuengua hata kama una kura nyingi za maoni.

Labda niulize: is it possible by any means for BO kupata magic number bila kwenda Denver kwenye Convention?

Its now or never! I really doubt kama BO akikosa sasa hivi anaweza hata kupewa chansi na wanachama 2012. Maana democrats will hardly forgive him. Na ofcourse new blood itakuwa imeshaingia ambayo BO can hadly compete with! If you loose you cant get momentum again!

Ila sasa huyu jamaa na yeye awe mwanasiasa aache kuuza sura tuu.... Huwezi kuniambia eti matangazo ya siku tatu pale Texas ndo yalimkosesha ushindi...sasa kama hawezi kuwithstand his attack za mama..ndo ataweza za akina Rush kweli? jamani kwa wanaomsupport huyu bwana inabidi wamshauri..uraisi sio ukatibu kata....... you have to go through hell to come out of the furnace! Linapokuja swala la top job ulimwenguni........politics of hope zinakuwa na small chances..Awe serious na yeye araise legimitate questions kuhusu resume ya mama Otherwise......he has along way to walk! Ila ajitahidi. Mama anapigika tuu...ni swala la kujua apige wapi.

Mpaka August? mengi tutayaona na kuyasikia......And Obama should have known better, she was fighting the Clintons who are no politicians by chance. They are career politicians..So he better become real!

Anyway anything is possible in politics, If I could see yesterday Bush dancing with McCain....

 

[Susuviri]

Not to worry at all, Masanja!
In fact hii issue ya kuwaruhusu Michigan na Florida kurudia election is not a bad thing because it might actually help one of them reach their target. Mi naona kabisa kwamba Jaluo ata-make it, what is happening now is posturing - if you get my gist!
Superdelegates wamesha-hint wengi kwamba wataangalia nani anaongoza kwenye pledged delegate na popular vote. Na what Jaluo has to do is just do what he does best. No way Mama atamfikia hata akishinda states zote zinazobaki kwa sababu it is a proportionate allotation wa delegates.
Lakini ya Mungu mengi... mi nadhani tuendelee kuangalia ....