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Showing posts with label John McCain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John McCain. Show all posts
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Tuesday, November 04, 2008
Uchaguzi Leo!
Leo mamilioni ya waMarekani wanapiga kura katika uchaguzi wa kihistoria. Huenda Mmarekani mweusi (Barack Obama) atashinda urais kwa mara ya kwanza katika historia ya nchi hii. Au huenda mzee kuliko marais (John McCain) wote atashinda na mwanamke (Sarah Palin) atakuwa wa kwanza kuwa makamu rais.
Tutajua matokeo jioni. Leo kila ukipita foleni za watu wanaongojea kupiga kura ni ndefu.
Mungu azidi kumlinda Barack Obama na familia yake!
Tutajua matokeo jioni. Leo kila ukipita foleni za watu wanaongojea kupiga kura ni ndefu.
Mungu azidi kumlinda Barack Obama na familia yake!
Monday, November 03, 2008
Friday, October 24, 2008
Kumbe Mwongo!
Ashley Todd aka. Jike JiongoHuyo mama wa kizungu alikuwa na njama ya kuchochea chuki kwa weusi na hasa Obama! Kama hamkusikia huyo mama kutoka Texas alidai kuwa alipokuwa Pittsburg, Pennsylvania alienda kwenye ATM kuchukua hela. Alidai kuwa mwanaume mweusi mwenye urefu wa futi 6.4 alimwimbia dola $60. Alipoona kuwa ana sticka kwenye gari lake iliyoandikwa McCain ndo yule mweusi alimpiga na kuchora 'B' kwenye shavu lake. Khaa! Uzuri polisi walisema wanachunguza madai yake, kwanza eti hakujua hiyo ATM ilipo.
Leo yule mama alikubali kuwa alisema uongo! Na ni bora kasema mapema maana wazungu wenye moyo wa kibaguzi tayari walikuwa na njama za kupiga weusi wenye bumper sticka za Obama na kuwauumiza.
Leo yule mama alikubali kuwa alisema uongo! Na ni bora kasema mapema maana wazungu wenye moyo wa kibaguzi tayari walikuwa na njama za kupiga weusi wenye bumper sticka za Obama na kuwauumiza.
Yaani John McCain na Sarah Palin walimpigia simu huyo mhuni na kumpa pole! Mbona wameaibika!
Kampeni ya McCain ilisema,
Kampeni ya McCain ilisema,
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Woman admits making up attack linked to McCain sticker, police say
(CNN) -- A woman who told police she was assaulted by a man angered about a John McCain bumper sticker on her car admitted she made up the report, the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, assistant police chief said Friday.
Police said the woman admitted making up the report she was attacked because of a John McCain sticker on her car.
The 20-year-old from Texas told investigators a man approached her Wednesday night at an ATM in Pittsburgh's East End, put a blade to her neck and demanded money, Pittsburgh Police Department public information officer Diane Richard said.
She said she gave him $60 and stepped away from him, Richard said.
She further said the man "punched her in the back of the head, knocking her to the ground, and he continued to punch and kick her while threatening to teach her a lesson for being a McCain supporter," according to a police statement.
The woman also told police her attacker "called her a lot of names and stated that 'You are going to be a Barack supporter,' at which time she states he sat on her chest, pinning both her hands down with his knees, and scratched into her face a backward letter 'B' on the right side of her face using what she believed to be a very dull knife."
At the time, Richard said, "We, the police, cannot substantiate this yet. This is what she told police."
The woman refused medical attention, Richard said, although she told the investigating officer she would see a doctor Thursday.
Richard said the woman described her alleged attacker as an African-American, 6 feet 4 inches tall with a medium build and short dark hair, wearing dark clothing and shiny shoes.
Before the revelation that the report was false, McCain spokeswoman Jill Hazelbaker said that McCain and running mate Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin "spoke to the victim and her family after learning about the incident."
The Obama campaign also had issued a statement wishing the woman a "speedy recovery."
Woman admits making up attack linked to McCain sticker, police say
(CNN) -- A woman who told police she was assaulted by a man angered about a John McCain bumper sticker on her car admitted she made up the report, the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, assistant police chief said Friday.
Police said the woman admitted making up the report she was attacked because of a John McCain sticker on her car.
The 20-year-old from Texas told investigators a man approached her Wednesday night at an ATM in Pittsburgh's East End, put a blade to her neck and demanded money, Pittsburgh Police Department public information officer Diane Richard said.
She said she gave him $60 and stepped away from him, Richard said.
She further said the man "punched her in the back of the head, knocking her to the ground, and he continued to punch and kick her while threatening to teach her a lesson for being a McCain supporter," according to a police statement.
The woman also told police her attacker "called her a lot of names and stated that 'You are going to be a Barack supporter,' at which time she states he sat on her chest, pinning both her hands down with his knees, and scratched into her face a backward letter 'B' on the right side of her face using what she believed to be a very dull knife."
At the time, Richard said, "We, the police, cannot substantiate this yet. This is what she told police."
The woman refused medical attention, Richard said, although she told the investigating officer she would see a doctor Thursday.
Richard said the woman described her alleged attacker as an African-American, 6 feet 4 inches tall with a medium build and short dark hair, wearing dark clothing and shiny shoes.
Before the revelation that the report was false, McCain spokeswoman Jill Hazelbaker said that McCain and running mate Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin "spoke to the victim and her family after learning about the incident."
The Obama campaign also had issued a statement wishing the woman a "speedy recovery."
Kwa habari zaidi someni:
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Ndugu weusi wa John McCain
Wadau, kama mnavyofahamu Senator John McCain anayegombea urais wa Marekani kupitia chama cha Republicans aliwahi kukana kuwa ana ndugu weusi. Aliwahi kusema hana ndugu mweusi hata moja na familia yake hawakuwa na watumwa! McCain anakataa lakini mbona ndugu zake wengine wanakubali kuwa wana ndugu weusi?
Kama mnaelewa historia ya utumwa hapa Marekani ni vigumu kwa wazungu ambao ndugu zao walikuja Marekani hapo zamani za kale kusema kuwa ndugu zao hawakuwa na watumwa. Labda kama walikuwa kwenye mikoa ya kaskazini hapa Marekani kama Massachusetts na New Hampshire. Wenye ndugu waliotoka kusini mwa Marekani lazima walikuwa na watumwa. Na hao watumwa walichukua majina ya ma slave masters wao.
Wiki hii CNN na magazeti mengine wamefichua siri yake. Sijui wale crackers wabaguzi watasema nini sasa! LOL! Kumbe mtu wao mweupe an ndugu weusi! Tuna cheka mpaka mbavu hatuna!
David Neiwart kutoka, "Crooks & Liars" kaandika:
"So it's perhaps not a surprise that, given the chance to banish that cloud by doing the human thing, the right thing, and embracing the black side of the McCain family, the Straight Talking Senator From Arizona chose essentially to run from them and hide. Because acknowledging them not only was too painful, but might prove too harmful to his chances of success in a political party predicated on white privilege.
Moreover, this also fits what we know about his reflexive predisposition on civil-rights matters. This is, after all, the guy who voted against a Martin Luther King holiday back in 1984."
Kwa habari zaidi someni:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122419511761942501.html?mod=article-outset-box
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977485037
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/barackobama/3232080/Descendents-of-slaves-owned-by-ancestors-of-John-McCain-will-vote-for-Barack-Obama.html
Kama mnaelewa historia ya utumwa hapa Marekani ni vigumu kwa wazungu ambao ndugu zao walikuja Marekani hapo zamani za kale kusema kuwa ndugu zao hawakuwa na watumwa. Labda kama walikuwa kwenye mikoa ya kaskazini hapa Marekani kama Massachusetts na New Hampshire. Wenye ndugu waliotoka kusini mwa Marekani lazima walikuwa na watumwa. Na hao watumwa walichukua majina ya ma slave masters wao.
Wiki hii CNN na magazeti mengine wamefichua siri yake. Sijui wale crackers wabaguzi watasema nini sasa! LOL! Kumbe mtu wao mweupe an ndugu weusi! Tuna cheka mpaka mbavu hatuna!
David Neiwart kutoka, "Crooks & Liars" kaandika:
"So it's perhaps not a surprise that, given the chance to banish that cloud by doing the human thing, the right thing, and embracing the black side of the McCain family, the Straight Talking Senator From Arizona chose essentially to run from them and hide. Because acknowledging them not only was too painful, but might prove too harmful to his chances of success in a political party predicated on white privilege.
Moreover, this also fits what we know about his reflexive predisposition on civil-rights matters. This is, after all, the guy who voted against a Martin Luther King holiday back in 1984."
Kwa habari zaidi someni:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122419511761942501.html?mod=article-outset-box
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977485037
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/barackobama/3232080/Descendents-of-slaves-owned-by-ancestors-of-John-McCain-will-vote-for-Barack-Obama.html
Tishio za Wazungu Wabaguzi
Wadau kama hamwamini kuwa kuna ubaguzi Marekani, hebu soma hii habari na usikilize jinsi weusi wanavyotukwanwa na wazungu wenye hasira.
Wanasema, "weusi wote wanyongwe, warudi Afrika, Weusi wasipate matibabu, eti kazi ya weusi ni kuzaa na kupokea welfare!"
Yaani hao wazungu wame-internalize maneno ya McCain na Palin. Wengine wansema eti, Barack Hussein Obama" Ni kweli hiyo ni jina la Obama lakini McCain na Palin wanasema jina lake kamili kusudi wamfananishe na Saddam Hussein. Hali inatisha. Na wanasema halahala Obama akishinda.
BOFYA HAPA:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/m.s.-bellows/anti-acorn-messages-threa_b_136222.html
Msikilize hiyo clip ya katikati utadhani ni mwaka 1960 kabla ya Civil Rights!
Hata hapa Boston, ofisi ya Acorn ilishambuliwa! Nashangaa kwa nini hakuna mtu aliyekamtwa!
Wanasema, "weusi wote wanyongwe, warudi Afrika, Weusi wasipate matibabu, eti kazi ya weusi ni kuzaa na kupokea welfare!"
Yaani hao wazungu wame-internalize maneno ya McCain na Palin. Wengine wansema eti, Barack Hussein Obama" Ni kweli hiyo ni jina la Obama lakini McCain na Palin wanasema jina lake kamili kusudi wamfananishe na Saddam Hussein. Hali inatisha. Na wanasema halahala Obama akishinda.
BOFYA HAPA:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/m.s.-bellows/anti-acorn-messages-threa_b_136222.html
Msikilize hiyo clip ya katikati utadhani ni mwaka 1960 kabla ya Civil Rights!
Hata hapa Boston, ofisi ya Acorn ilishambuliwa! Nashangaa kwa nini hakuna mtu aliyekamtwa!
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Ubaguzi Unazidi Marekani asante Uchochezi wa McCain/Palin
Wadau, tangu McCain/Palin waanze mikutano zenye ujumbe za kibaguzi, watu weusi wamejikuta wanapigwa na kunyanyaswa bila sababu. Hali hasa ni mbaya sehemu zinazowapendelea McCain na Palin. Watu alioenda kwenye mkutano wa Barack Obama walitoka na kukuta matairi ya magari yao yametobolewa. Pia weusi walioenda kupiga kura mapema walizomewa!
Mungu amlinde Barack Obama na familia yake. Pia atulinde sisi weusi tunaokaa Marekani.
Yaani hali ilivyo na huyo McCain alivyofanikiwa kuchochea ubaguzi, sijui kama Obama ataweza kushinda tena.
WHAT A SHAME AND DISGRACE! THE MCCAIN/PALIN CAMPAIGN HAS PREACHED RACISM AND BROUGHT OUT THE RACISTS EN MASSE! AND WORSE THEY HAVE NO SHAME! I DON'T HEAR McCAIN (McBUSH) TELLING THOSE EVIL DOERS TO STOP IT!
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McCain/Palin Supporters Slash Tires and Heckle Early Voters in North Carolina
October 20, 2008
Attendees at a Barack Obama rally Oct. 19 in Fayetteville, North Carolina, had their tires slashed apparently by supporters of John McCain and Sarah Palin. Following the rally, early Obama voters were heckled by McCain/Palin supporters outside at least one polling place in Fayetteville.
According to the Fayetteville Observer, some person or persons unknown slashed the tires of at least 30 vehicles parked outside Fayetteville's Crown Coliseum during the Oct. 19 Obama rally, leaving attendees including a single mother and her baby stranded and upset. At least four tow trucks had to be called for stranded vehicles at a cost upwards of $100 for each vehicle. One Obama supporter quoted in this report expressed the belief that the slashed tires were an effort to intimidate her and others like her, but insisted that she wouldn't be deterred from supporting Obama.
Following the rally, Obama supporters taking advantage of early voting were met by hecklers outside at least one Fayettevile polling place. Unlike the anonymous tire-slashers of earlier in the day, the hecklers outside this polling place left no doubt as to who they were and why they were there. As shown in two videos posted to the Washington Times, many of the hecklers were holding McCain/Palin campaign signs; and all were white while most of the voters they were heckling were black. Reporter Christina Bellantoni described the McCain/Palin forces here as "a group of loud and angry protesters who shouted and mocked the voters as they walked in" to vote, their shouts including the usual claims that Obama is a "socialist" or a "terrorist," and even that the voters themselves were "cheaters."
A report by the Institute for Southern Studies in Durham NC suggests that the heckling incident may be a violation of the Voting Rights Act of 1964, which states: "No person, whether acting under color of law or otherwise, shall intimidate, threaten, or coerce, or attempt to intimidate, threaten, or coerce any person for voting or attempting to vote, or intimidate, threaten, or coerce, or attempt to intimidate, threaten, or coerce any person for urging or aiding any person to vote or attempt to vote."
John McCain and Sarah Palin did not tell their supporters to slash the tires of Obama supporters or to heckle voters at a polling place. In view of their continued insistence on the use of fear and hate to manipulate voters, however, and in view of the similar types of hate-based behavior we have seen at McCain/Palin rallies across the United States, I would argue that McCain, Palin, and the GOP are as responsible for these acts as the perpetrators themselves. McCain and Palin need to be held accountable for the lynch-mob mentality they have knowingly cultivated among their supporters with their own divisive rhetoric
Mark C. Eades
http://www.mceades.com/
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Dead bear cub covered in Barack Obama posters found at University
Matthew Weaver and agencies guardian.co.uk,
Tuesday October 21 2008
A dead bear cub draped in Barack Obama posters has been found at the entrance to a university in North Carolina, police said today.
Police and wildlife officials are investigating the incident at the Western Carolina University.
Maintenance workers found the 34kg (75lb) bear cub in front of the administration building at the entrance to the campus.
It had been shot, and Obama posters were stapled together and placed over its head.
"Someone evidently was wanting to draw attention to the election," Tom Johnson, the chief of university police, told the Asheveille Citizen's Times newspaper.
"If we find out who they are, we'll make sure they'll get some attention themselves."
Leila Tvedt, a spokeswoman for the university, said the institution "deplores the inappropriate behaviour that has led to this troubling incident".
"We cannot speculate on the motives of the people involved, nor who those people might be," she added.
"Campus police are cooperating fully with authorities to investigate this matter."
University police asked state wildlife officials to remove the dead cub and help in the investigation.
The bear hunting season in North Carolina began last week.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5igVGB_hHJfX2Odof8OgJyEPkCLPwD93UJIT83
Mungu amlinde Barack Obama na familia yake. Pia atulinde sisi weusi tunaokaa Marekani.
Yaani hali ilivyo na huyo McCain alivyofanikiwa kuchochea ubaguzi, sijui kama Obama ataweza kushinda tena.
WHAT A SHAME AND DISGRACE! THE MCCAIN/PALIN CAMPAIGN HAS PREACHED RACISM AND BROUGHT OUT THE RACISTS EN MASSE! AND WORSE THEY HAVE NO SHAME! I DON'T HEAR McCAIN (McBUSH) TELLING THOSE EVIL DOERS TO STOP IT!
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McCain/Palin Supporters Slash Tires and Heckle Early Voters in North Carolina
October 20, 2008
Attendees at a Barack Obama rally Oct. 19 in Fayetteville, North Carolina, had their tires slashed apparently by supporters of John McCain and Sarah Palin. Following the rally, early Obama voters were heckled by McCain/Palin supporters outside at least one polling place in Fayetteville.
According to the Fayetteville Observer, some person or persons unknown slashed the tires of at least 30 vehicles parked outside Fayetteville's Crown Coliseum during the Oct. 19 Obama rally, leaving attendees including a single mother and her baby stranded and upset. At least four tow trucks had to be called for stranded vehicles at a cost upwards of $100 for each vehicle. One Obama supporter quoted in this report expressed the belief that the slashed tires were an effort to intimidate her and others like her, but insisted that she wouldn't be deterred from supporting Obama.
Following the rally, Obama supporters taking advantage of early voting were met by hecklers outside at least one Fayettevile polling place. Unlike the anonymous tire-slashers of earlier in the day, the hecklers outside this polling place left no doubt as to who they were and why they were there. As shown in two videos posted to the Washington Times, many of the hecklers were holding McCain/Palin campaign signs; and all were white while most of the voters they were heckling were black. Reporter Christina Bellantoni described the McCain/Palin forces here as "a group of loud and angry protesters who shouted and mocked the voters as they walked in" to vote, their shouts including the usual claims that Obama is a "socialist" or a "terrorist," and even that the voters themselves were "cheaters."
A report by the Institute for Southern Studies in Durham NC suggests that the heckling incident may be a violation of the Voting Rights Act of 1964, which states: "No person, whether acting under color of law or otherwise, shall intimidate, threaten, or coerce, or attempt to intimidate, threaten, or coerce any person for voting or attempting to vote, or intimidate, threaten, or coerce, or attempt to intimidate, threaten, or coerce any person for urging or aiding any person to vote or attempt to vote."
John McCain and Sarah Palin did not tell their supporters to slash the tires of Obama supporters or to heckle voters at a polling place. In view of their continued insistence on the use of fear and hate to manipulate voters, however, and in view of the similar types of hate-based behavior we have seen at McCain/Palin rallies across the United States, I would argue that McCain, Palin, and the GOP are as responsible for these acts as the perpetrators themselves. McCain and Palin need to be held accountable for the lynch-mob mentality they have knowingly cultivated among their supporters with their own divisive rhetoric
Mark C. Eades
http://www.mceades.com/
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Dead bear cub covered in Barack Obama posters found at University
Matthew Weaver and agencies guardian.co.uk,
Tuesday October 21 2008
A dead bear cub draped in Barack Obama posters has been found at the entrance to a university in North Carolina, police said today.
Police and wildlife officials are investigating the incident at the Western Carolina University.
Maintenance workers found the 34kg (75lb) bear cub in front of the administration building at the entrance to the campus.
It had been shot, and Obama posters were stapled together and placed over its head.
"Someone evidently was wanting to draw attention to the election," Tom Johnson, the chief of university police, told the Asheveille Citizen's Times newspaper.
"If we find out who they are, we'll make sure they'll get some attention themselves."
Leila Tvedt, a spokeswoman for the university, said the institution "deplores the inappropriate behaviour that has led to this troubling incident".
"We cannot speculate on the motives of the people involved, nor who those people might be," she added.
"Campus police are cooperating fully with authorities to investigate this matter."
University police asked state wildlife officials to remove the dead cub and help in the investigation.
The bear hunting season in North Carolina began last week.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5igVGB_hHJfX2Odof8OgJyEPkCLPwD93UJIT83
Monday, October 20, 2008
Mbaguzi na mpenda Madawa ya Kulevya Rush Limbaugh amtukana General Colin Powell
Mbaguzi Rush Limbaugh
Sijui kwa nini kuna watu hapa Marekani wanaomwambudu Rush Limbaugh. Huyo Limbaugh ni mbaguzi kupindukia na mlevi wa madawa ya kulevya. Hafichi kuwa hapendi watu weusi, lakini analipwa mamilioni ya dola kila mwaka kuwa na kipindi kwenye redio.
Jana, mara baada ya kusikia kuwa General Colin Powell, kampendekeza Barack Obama kuwa rais, Limbaugh alisema kuwa Powell alifanya hivyo kwa vile Obama ni mweusi mwenzake. Alisema hivyo ingawa Powell alitoa sababu nyingi za maana kutompendekeza John McCain, sababu moja ikiwa kuwa alimchagua Sarah Palin kuwa naibu wake na hana uwezo wa kuongoza nchi.
Sijui kwa nini huyo Rush Limbaugh hajapigwa na radi bado! Ana roho ya kishetani!
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Limbaugh defends comment about Powell
Posted: 01:55 PM ET
From CNN Ticker Producer Alexander Mooney
(CNN) - Conservative talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh Monday strongly defended his recent remark that Colin Powell endorsed Barack Obama largely because of race, and lashed out at members of the media and Democrats for appearing to take issue with his comment.
"So what if it's race?" Limbaugh said on his radio show. "Why is it so hard to admit that it's race.What's so problematic about admitting it?"
Limbaugh's original comments came in an email to Politico reporter Jonathan Martin Sunday, when the talk-radio host took issue with Powell's contention that his endorsement of the Illinois senator did not have anything to do with the color of his skin.
"Secretary Powell says his endorsement is not about race," Limbaugh wrote in the e-mail. "OK, fine. I am now researching his past endorsements to see if I can find all the inexperienced, very liberal, white candidates he has endorsed. I'll let you know what I come up with."
The comments immediately caused a stir on several Democratic blogs and an Obama campaign spokeswoman called them "disgusting." They were also heavily reported on several news programs Sunday night and Monday morning. But Limbaugh made clear Monday he is not backing down from them.
"I thought it should be about race," he said. "I thought you liberals thought this was a historic candidacy because finally we are going to elect a black guy.why hide behind this, why act like it's not about race?"
"This was all about Powell and race, nothing about the nation and its welfare," Limbaugh added. The talk radio host also criticized members of the media for not addressing his claim that Powell likely hasn't endorsed white candidates who, according to Limbaugh, have similar political leanings and experience as Obama.
"Just so you know, I haven't come up with any," he said. "I worked diligently on this on the airplane on the trip home from Green Bay yesterday. I can't find any of these inexperienced white liberals that Powell has endorsed."
In announcing his endorsement of Obama, Powell said his decision was not based solely on race, but added "I can't deny that it will be a historic event for an African-American to become president."
"Should that happen, all Americans should be proud - not just African-Americans, but all Americans - that we have reached this point in our national history where such a thing could happen," Powell said on NBC's Meet the Press Sunday. "It will also not only electrify our country, I think it'll electrify the world."
Jana, mara baada ya kusikia kuwa General Colin Powell, kampendekeza Barack Obama kuwa rais, Limbaugh alisema kuwa Powell alifanya hivyo kwa vile Obama ni mweusi mwenzake. Alisema hivyo ingawa Powell alitoa sababu nyingi za maana kutompendekeza John McCain, sababu moja ikiwa kuwa alimchagua Sarah Palin kuwa naibu wake na hana uwezo wa kuongoza nchi.
Sijui kwa nini huyo Rush Limbaugh hajapigwa na radi bado! Ana roho ya kishetani!
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Limbaugh defends comment about Powell
Posted: 01:55 PM ET
From CNN Ticker Producer Alexander Mooney
(CNN) - Conservative talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh Monday strongly defended his recent remark that Colin Powell endorsed Barack Obama largely because of race, and lashed out at members of the media and Democrats for appearing to take issue with his comment.
"So what if it's race?" Limbaugh said on his radio show. "Why is it so hard to admit that it's race.What's so problematic about admitting it?"
Limbaugh's original comments came in an email to Politico reporter Jonathan Martin Sunday, when the talk-radio host took issue with Powell's contention that his endorsement of the Illinois senator did not have anything to do with the color of his skin.
"Secretary Powell says his endorsement is not about race," Limbaugh wrote in the e-mail. "OK, fine. I am now researching his past endorsements to see if I can find all the inexperienced, very liberal, white candidates he has endorsed. I'll let you know what I come up with."
The comments immediately caused a stir on several Democratic blogs and an Obama campaign spokeswoman called them "disgusting." They were also heavily reported on several news programs Sunday night and Monday morning. But Limbaugh made clear Monday he is not backing down from them.
"I thought it should be about race," he said. "I thought you liberals thought this was a historic candidacy because finally we are going to elect a black guy.why hide behind this, why act like it's not about race?"
"This was all about Powell and race, nothing about the nation and its welfare," Limbaugh added. The talk radio host also criticized members of the media for not addressing his claim that Powell likely hasn't endorsed white candidates who, according to Limbaugh, have similar political leanings and experience as Obama.
"Just so you know, I haven't come up with any," he said. "I worked diligently on this on the airplane on the trip home from Green Bay yesterday. I can't find any of these inexperienced white liberals that Powell has endorsed."
In announcing his endorsement of Obama, Powell said his decision was not based solely on race, but added "I can't deny that it will be a historic event for an African-American to become president."
"Should that happen, all Americans should be proud - not just African-Americans, but all Americans - that we have reached this point in our national history where such a thing could happen," Powell said on NBC's Meet the Press Sunday. "It will also not only electrify our country, I think it'll electrify the world."
Kwa habari zaidi someni:
Friday, October 17, 2008
Baada ya Debate ya Alhamisi!!
Hii picha ilipigwa mara baada ya debate ya mwisho katika uchaguzi 2008.John McCain alikosea njia mara baada ya kupeana mikono na Barack Obama. McCain anafaa kuwa kwenye Saturday Night Live.
Monday, October 13, 2008
McCain na Palin Wamechochea Ubaguzi Marekani!
(pichani RACIST MONKEY MAN)Kwa kweli chuki na ubaguzi uliyotokea tangu wiki iliyopita hapa Marekani unatisha. Ule roho wa kibaguzi ambao watu walisema ulikufa bado upo ila watu walikuwa wanaizuia.
Maneno ya McCain na Palin yalichochea ubaguzi bila kupingwa mpaka watu wenye akili walishutuka na kumwambia McCain aache hiyo tabia yake chafu! Ndivyo Ijumaa McCain akajifanya kumkosoa bi kizee fulani wa Kizungu huko Minnesota aliposema kuwa Obama ni mwarabu. Hata jibu la McCain ilimaanisha kuwa waarbu si watu wema.
Jamani, hata Obama akishinda itabidi apambane na huo ubaguzi waliochochea McCain na Palin. Huyo kijana, Paul Crawford ameandika maoni mazuri sana lakini ina onyo kali, asante McCain wabaguzi watapania kumwua Obama!
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McCain/Palin incite hate toward Obama
Paul Crawford
I have not lived a very long life. But in my 23 years on this planet and in this country I have never witnessed such disgusting things from the American public as I have in the past week. Something is happening, and it's not politics as usual.
At various McCain-Palin campaign rallies this past week things have gotten out of hand. The campaign's strategy of bringing up Obama's associations with the 1960s political activist William Ayers has quickly rippled through the American public and brought to the surface something that has been hidden away for many years.
Widespread racial hatred is now so obvious that people are comfortable with publicly vocalizing their bitter racial hatred for Sen. Obama without the least bit of shame to hold them back.
Ever since Gov. Palin accused Sen. Obama of "palling around with terrorists," the people who used to hide their racist attitudes have lost all inhibitions.
McCain campaign rallies have taken on a lynch mob-like atmosphere that is reminiscent of a Confederate convention. Shouts of "terrorist," "traitor," "kill him," "off with his head," and numerous other disgusting and often racially motivated slurs that I won't repeat are all too common.
The fact that Sen. McCain and especially Gov. Palin let these comments go without a fierce scolding is a testament to the dirty, desperate, and appalling way in which they conduct themselves and their politics. I give a very small amount of credit to Sen. McCain for telling his supporters to be "respectful" of Obama and for saying that he is a "decent family man."
One must remember it is his campaign that began and still continues to fuel the vile hatred aimed at Sen. Obama.
It is extremely evident and worth noting that virtually 100 percent of McCain's campaign ads are negative attacks on Sen. Obama.
It is now quite obvious to me that Sarah Palin is not concerned one bit with women's issues, inequality, the middle class, or anything else having to do with the condition of our country.
Continued...
She shows an eager willingness to do or say anything that will serve to advance her own political career. She should be ashamed and anyone who views her as a heroic figure should quickly rethink their allegiance. They were misled by a well-orchestrated convention speech.
What did Sen. McCain think would happen when he tried to associate Sen. Obama with terrorists in a post-9/11 world? For the past seven years politicians, especially within the Republican Party, have used the fear of terrorism as a propaganda tool used to gain support for their own corrupt agendas, which includes two wars and numerous violations of our basic civil liberties.
Fear of terrorism, like fear of communism, has caused our government and many of our citizens to act extremely irrational. The McCain campaign prods this fear, sticking its fat finger into our open wound.
Most Americans have since recognized the political puppetry that played on their emotions. This majority doesn't buy into this "Obama equals terrorist" bull.
But McCain must have been aware of the considerable demographic of his supporters that are racists or have racist attitudes. He must have known that only the most gullible, ignorant, and uneducated citizens would buy into this rubbish. McCain has infuriated these people, given them a voice, and brought them together at his rallies with other likeminded bigots. It is sickening.
If and when Sen. Obama is elected our president, I will not be able to breathe easily knowing there are millions out there with these misguided views. Some of the most inspirational African American leaders the United States has ever known, including Martin Luther King Jr., Medgar Evers, and Malcolm X, along with numerous other lesser-known activists, have been the victims of racially motivated assassinations.
The hate is historically pervasive, shameful, and buried until the McCain campaign initiated it and now continues to fuel it.
If the McCain campaign thinks Sen. Obama should explain his connections with William Ayers, as they say is their intention, they have gone about it in a very irresponsible and convoluted way. They could have asked respectfully.
Instead, they connected Sen. Obama with a 1960s political activist who was never convicted of any crimes.
McCain and cohorts have put Ayers on trial, found him guilty, called him an unrepentant terrorist, and made it sound as if he and Sen. Obama are great friends with a secret plan to put the terrorists in power of our country.
They have convinced a sizable portion of their supporters that Sen. Obama cannot be trusted as our president.
If Sen. Obama is elected our president, there will be a large amount of people unwilling to accept his leadership and I'm afraid the fear and hate the McCain campaign has instilled in some of its supporters is irreversible and dangerous.
Maneno ya McCain na Palin yalichochea ubaguzi bila kupingwa mpaka watu wenye akili walishutuka na kumwambia McCain aache hiyo tabia yake chafu! Ndivyo Ijumaa McCain akajifanya kumkosoa bi kizee fulani wa Kizungu huko Minnesota aliposema kuwa Obama ni mwarabu. Hata jibu la McCain ilimaanisha kuwa waarbu si watu wema.
Jamani, hata Obama akishinda itabidi apambane na huo ubaguzi waliochochea McCain na Palin. Huyo kijana, Paul Crawford ameandika maoni mazuri sana lakini ina onyo kali, asante McCain wabaguzi watapania kumwua Obama!
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McCain/Palin incite hate toward Obama
Paul Crawford
I have not lived a very long life. But in my 23 years on this planet and in this country I have never witnessed such disgusting things from the American public as I have in the past week. Something is happening, and it's not politics as usual.
At various McCain-Palin campaign rallies this past week things have gotten out of hand. The campaign's strategy of bringing up Obama's associations with the 1960s political activist William Ayers has quickly rippled through the American public and brought to the surface something that has been hidden away for many years.
Widespread racial hatred is now so obvious that people are comfortable with publicly vocalizing their bitter racial hatred for Sen. Obama without the least bit of shame to hold them back.
Ever since Gov. Palin accused Sen. Obama of "palling around with terrorists," the people who used to hide their racist attitudes have lost all inhibitions.
McCain campaign rallies have taken on a lynch mob-like atmosphere that is reminiscent of a Confederate convention. Shouts of "terrorist," "traitor," "kill him," "off with his head," and numerous other disgusting and often racially motivated slurs that I won't repeat are all too common.
The fact that Sen. McCain and especially Gov. Palin let these comments go without a fierce scolding is a testament to the dirty, desperate, and appalling way in which they conduct themselves and their politics. I give a very small amount of credit to Sen. McCain for telling his supporters to be "respectful" of Obama and for saying that he is a "decent family man."
One must remember it is his campaign that began and still continues to fuel the vile hatred aimed at Sen. Obama.
It is extremely evident and worth noting that virtually 100 percent of McCain's campaign ads are negative attacks on Sen. Obama.
It is now quite obvious to me that Sarah Palin is not concerned one bit with women's issues, inequality, the middle class, or anything else having to do with the condition of our country.
Continued...
She shows an eager willingness to do or say anything that will serve to advance her own political career. She should be ashamed and anyone who views her as a heroic figure should quickly rethink their allegiance. They were misled by a well-orchestrated convention speech.
What did Sen. McCain think would happen when he tried to associate Sen. Obama with terrorists in a post-9/11 world? For the past seven years politicians, especially within the Republican Party, have used the fear of terrorism as a propaganda tool used to gain support for their own corrupt agendas, which includes two wars and numerous violations of our basic civil liberties.
Fear of terrorism, like fear of communism, has caused our government and many of our citizens to act extremely irrational. The McCain campaign prods this fear, sticking its fat finger into our open wound.
Most Americans have since recognized the political puppetry that played on their emotions. This majority doesn't buy into this "Obama equals terrorist" bull.
But McCain must have been aware of the considerable demographic of his supporters that are racists or have racist attitudes. He must have known that only the most gullible, ignorant, and uneducated citizens would buy into this rubbish. McCain has infuriated these people, given them a voice, and brought them together at his rallies with other likeminded bigots. It is sickening.
If and when Sen. Obama is elected our president, I will not be able to breathe easily knowing there are millions out there with these misguided views. Some of the most inspirational African American leaders the United States has ever known, including Martin Luther King Jr., Medgar Evers, and Malcolm X, along with numerous other lesser-known activists, have been the victims of racially motivated assassinations.
The hate is historically pervasive, shameful, and buried until the McCain campaign initiated it and now continues to fuel it.
If the McCain campaign thinks Sen. Obama should explain his connections with William Ayers, as they say is their intention, they have gone about it in a very irresponsible and convoluted way. They could have asked respectfully.
Instead, they connected Sen. Obama with a 1960s political activist who was never convicted of any crimes.
McCain and cohorts have put Ayers on trial, found him guilty, called him an unrepentant terrorist, and made it sound as if he and Sen. Obama are great friends with a secret plan to put the terrorists in power of our country.
They have convinced a sizable portion of their supporters that Sen. Obama cannot be trusted as our president.
If Sen. Obama is elected our president, there will be a large amount of people unwilling to accept his leadership and I'm afraid the fear and hate the McCain campaign has instilled in some of its supporters is irreversible and dangerous.
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Wabaguzi!
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MUNGU ATUNUSURU! Hao ndo waliompigia kura BUSH! Cheki maongezi ya hao wabaguzi laivu. Si ajabu walivyotoka huko walimtafuta mweusi wa kumnyonga!
McCain/Palin rallies si za kisiasa sasa. Ni KKK rallies! Hao maKKK ndo walio ua weusi kwa wingi hapa Marekani bila wasiwasi wa kuchukuliwa hatua yoyote ya kisheria!
MUNGU ATUNUSURU! Hao ndo waliompigia kura BUSH! Cheki maongezi ya hao wabaguzi laivu. Si ajabu walivyotoka huko walimtafuta mweusi wa kumnyonga!
McCain/Palin rallies si za kisiasa sasa. Ni KKK rallies! Hao maKKK ndo walio ua weusi kwa wingi hapa Marekani bila wasiwasi wa kuchukuliwa hatua yoyote ya kisheria!
Friday, October 10, 2008
McCain Palin Waendekeza Ubaguzi wa Rangi
Jamani hii habari inasikitisha sana tena mno. Lakini mnategemea nini kutoka hao wazungu ambao inaelekea watashindwa vibaya kwenye uchaguzi inayokuja.
Waandishi wa habri weusi walioko kwenye msafara wa wagombea urais wa Marekani kwenye tiketi ya Republican -McCain na Palin wanatukanwa na kuitwa N-word!
Watu wanasema wamwue Obama! Ndiyo! Wanasema wamwue, lakini McCain wala Palin hawajakosoa hao waliosema! Tayari weusi wamepigwa na kugongwa na magari na wazungu hao wenye hasira!
Na wanasema kuwa hali ya kibaguzi inakuwa mbaya zaidi kwenye mikutano ya Palin. Hii inatuambia nini jamani?
Ninawaomba tuzidi kumwombea Senator Barack Obama na familia yake maana hao wazungu wabaguzi wenye siasa kali ni hatari!
Waandishi wa habri weusi walioko kwenye msafara wa wagombea urais wa Marekani kwenye tiketi ya Republican -McCain na Palin wanatukanwa na kuitwa N-word!
Watu wanasema wamwue Obama! Ndiyo! Wanasema wamwue, lakini McCain wala Palin hawajakosoa hao waliosema! Tayari weusi wamepigwa na kugongwa na magari na wazungu hao wenye hasira!
Na wanasema kuwa hali ya kibaguzi inakuwa mbaya zaidi kwenye mikutano ya Palin. Hii inatuambia nini jamani?
Ninawaomba tuzidi kumwombea Senator Barack Obama na familia yake maana hao wazungu wabaguzi wenye siasa kali ni hatari!
Na ninatabiri huo chuki ukiendelea weusi watauliwa kwa wingi kwenye maeneo ya hao wabaguzi Obama akishinda! Na atashinda waanze kuzoea kuwa na raid mweusi!
OBAMA UBARIKIWE!
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Rage rising on the McCain Campaign Trail
-McCain-Palin supporters increasing their attacks on Obama during rallies
-Some supporters have yelled out "treason," "kill him" and "terrorist"
-McCain and Palin have not asked their supporters to calm their attack
- Obama says Friday: Anger and division are "not what we need right now"
(CNN) -- With recent polls showing Sen. Barack Obama's lead increasing nationwide and in several GOP-leaning states, some Republicans attending McCain-Palin campaign rallies have taken on a new emotion: Rage.
An angry supporter confronts Sen. John McCain at a rally in Wisconsin on Thursday.
1 of 2 "When you have an Obama, [House Speaker Nancy] Pelosi and the rest of the hooligans up there going to run this country, we have got to have our head examined. It's time that you two are representing us, and we are mad. So, go get them," one man told Sen. John McCain at a town hall meeting in Waukesha, Wisconsin.
It's almost a cry for help, with the GOP party faithful amazed McCain could possibly be losing.
"And we're all wondering why that Obama is where he's at, how he got here. I mean, everybody in this room is stunned that we're in this position," another man said at a rally.
"I'm mad. I'm really mad. And what's going to surprise you, it's not the economy. It's the socialists taking over our country," another man said. Watch more of the anger at the rallies »
CNN contributor David Gergen said that the negative tone of these rallies are "incendiary" and could lead to violence.
"There is this free floating sort of whipping around anger that could really lead to some violence. I think we're not far from that," he told CNN's Anderson Cooper on Thursday. "I really worry when we get people -- when you get the kind of rhetoric that you're getting at these rallies now. I think it's really imperative that the candidates try to calm people down."
Recently, McCain's campaign launched a string of new ads that question Obama's judgment and character.
The McCain campaign calls Obama "too risky for America" in a new Web ad that focuses on his political relationship with Bill Ayers, a founding member of the radical Weather Underground.
"Barack Obama and domestic terrorist Bill Ayers. Friends. They've worked together for years. But Obama tries to hide it," the announcer said in the 90-second ad.
The now-defunct Weather Underground was involved in bombings in the early 1970s, including attacks on the Pentagon and the Capitol. Obama was a young child at the time of the bombings.
Obama and Ayers, now a university professor, met in 1995, when both worked with a nonprofit group trying to raise funds for a school improvement project and a charitable foundation. CNN's review of project records found nothing to suggest anything inappropriate in the volunteer projects in which the two men were involved. CNN Fact Check: Is Obama 'palling around with terrorists'?
Quoted in The New York Times, Obama called Ayers "somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8."
At a rally Tuesday in Clearwater, Florida, Sarah Palin said Obama was being "less than truthful" about his ties to Ayers. "His own top adviser said they were 'certainly friendly.' ... I am just so fearful that this is not a man who sees America the way that you and I see America -- as the greatest source for good in this world," she said.
Palin told the crowd that she sees "a pattern in how our opponent has talked about one of his most troubling associations." Watch more of Palin's comments »
One member of the Palin audience in Jacksonville, Florida, Tuesday shouted out "treason." And at another rally in the state Monday, Palin's mention of the Obama-Ayers tie caused one member to yell out: "kill him" -- though it was unclear if it was targeted at Obama or Ayers.
At several recent rallies, Palin has stirred up crowds by mentioning the "liberal media." Routinely, there are boos at every mention of The New York Times and the "mainstream media," both of which are staples of Palin's stump speech.
Some audience members are openly hostile to members of the traveling press covering Palin; one crowd member hurled a racial epithet at an African-American member of the press in Clearwater, Florida, on Monday.
And at a McCain rally in New Mexico on Monday, one supporter yelled out "terrorist" when McCain asked, "Who is the real Barack Obama?" McCain didn't respond.
So far, neither Palin nor McCain have explicitly called on their supporters to tamper down the attacks. Watch as McCain ramps up his criticism of Obama »
On Friday, Obama touched on the rage found at recent McCain-Palin rallies, saying the "barrage of nasty insinuations and attacks" were a result of the Republican nominees failed economic ideas.
"They can run misleading ads, they can pursue the politics of anything goes. It will not work. Not this time. I think that folks are looking for something different this time. It's easy to rile up a crowd, nothing's easier than riling up a crowd by stoking anger and division. But that's not what we need right now in the United States. The times are too serious," Obama said at a rally in Chillicothe, Ohio.
But some anger found at McCain-Palin rallies is, however, directed at McCain. Watch analysts weigh in on the recent attacks »
"I am begging you, sir, I am begging you, take it to him," another supporter said to the Arizona senator at the Wisconsin rally.
McCain, however, seems torn. On one hand, he is going negative on the Ayers controversy.
"The point is, Sen. Obama said he was just a guy in the neighborhood. We know that's not true," he said at the rally in Wisconsin. "We need to know the full extent of the relationship because of whether Sen. Obama is telling the truth to the American people or not."
On the other hand, McCain is trying to focus on the economic downturn plaguing the country.
"But I also, my friends, want to address the greatest financial challenge of our lifetime with a positive plan for action," he added.
Also, the McCains said months ago they didn't want their son Jimmy -- a Marine serving in Iraq -- dragged into the campaign.
But on Thursday, Cindy McCain brought up her son.
She criticized the Illinois senator for voting against a bill to fund troops in Iraq, a regular line of attack from her husband's campaign.
"The day that Sen. Obama cast a vote not to fund my son when he was serving sent a cold chill through my body, let me tell you," she told a Pennsylvania crowd before introducing her husband and his No. 2.
The vote Cindy McCain is referencing came in May 2007, when Obama was one of 14 senators who voted against a war-spending plan that would have provided emergency funds for American troops overseas.
A CNN fact check deemed the charge that Obama voted against troop funding "misleading.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/10/mccain.crowd/index.html
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24476557-663,00.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/10/10/politics/horserace/entry4513591.shtml
OBAMA UBARIKIWE!
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Rage rising on the McCain Campaign Trail
-McCain-Palin supporters increasing their attacks on Obama during rallies
-Some supporters have yelled out "treason," "kill him" and "terrorist"
-McCain and Palin have not asked their supporters to calm their attack
- Obama says Friday: Anger and division are "not what we need right now"
(CNN) -- With recent polls showing Sen. Barack Obama's lead increasing nationwide and in several GOP-leaning states, some Republicans attending McCain-Palin campaign rallies have taken on a new emotion: Rage.
An angry supporter confronts Sen. John McCain at a rally in Wisconsin on Thursday.
1 of 2 "When you have an Obama, [House Speaker Nancy] Pelosi and the rest of the hooligans up there going to run this country, we have got to have our head examined. It's time that you two are representing us, and we are mad. So, go get them," one man told Sen. John McCain at a town hall meeting in Waukesha, Wisconsin.
It's almost a cry for help, with the GOP party faithful amazed McCain could possibly be losing.
"And we're all wondering why that Obama is where he's at, how he got here. I mean, everybody in this room is stunned that we're in this position," another man said at a rally.
"I'm mad. I'm really mad. And what's going to surprise you, it's not the economy. It's the socialists taking over our country," another man said. Watch more of the anger at the rallies »
CNN contributor David Gergen said that the negative tone of these rallies are "incendiary" and could lead to violence.
"There is this free floating sort of whipping around anger that could really lead to some violence. I think we're not far from that," he told CNN's Anderson Cooper on Thursday. "I really worry when we get people -- when you get the kind of rhetoric that you're getting at these rallies now. I think it's really imperative that the candidates try to calm people down."
Recently, McCain's campaign launched a string of new ads that question Obama's judgment and character.
The McCain campaign calls Obama "too risky for America" in a new Web ad that focuses on his political relationship with Bill Ayers, a founding member of the radical Weather Underground.
"Barack Obama and domestic terrorist Bill Ayers. Friends. They've worked together for years. But Obama tries to hide it," the announcer said in the 90-second ad.
The now-defunct Weather Underground was involved in bombings in the early 1970s, including attacks on the Pentagon and the Capitol. Obama was a young child at the time of the bombings.
Obama and Ayers, now a university professor, met in 1995, when both worked with a nonprofit group trying to raise funds for a school improvement project and a charitable foundation. CNN's review of project records found nothing to suggest anything inappropriate in the volunteer projects in which the two men were involved. CNN Fact Check: Is Obama 'palling around with terrorists'?
Quoted in The New York Times, Obama called Ayers "somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8."
At a rally Tuesday in Clearwater, Florida, Sarah Palin said Obama was being "less than truthful" about his ties to Ayers. "His own top adviser said they were 'certainly friendly.' ... I am just so fearful that this is not a man who sees America the way that you and I see America -- as the greatest source for good in this world," she said.
Palin told the crowd that she sees "a pattern in how our opponent has talked about one of his most troubling associations." Watch more of Palin's comments »
One member of the Palin audience in Jacksonville, Florida, Tuesday shouted out "treason." And at another rally in the state Monday, Palin's mention of the Obama-Ayers tie caused one member to yell out: "kill him" -- though it was unclear if it was targeted at Obama or Ayers.
At several recent rallies, Palin has stirred up crowds by mentioning the "liberal media." Routinely, there are boos at every mention of The New York Times and the "mainstream media," both of which are staples of Palin's stump speech.
Some audience members are openly hostile to members of the traveling press covering Palin; one crowd member hurled a racial epithet at an African-American member of the press in Clearwater, Florida, on Monday.
And at a McCain rally in New Mexico on Monday, one supporter yelled out "terrorist" when McCain asked, "Who is the real Barack Obama?" McCain didn't respond.
So far, neither Palin nor McCain have explicitly called on their supporters to tamper down the attacks. Watch as McCain ramps up his criticism of Obama »
On Friday, Obama touched on the rage found at recent McCain-Palin rallies, saying the "barrage of nasty insinuations and attacks" were a result of the Republican nominees failed economic ideas.
"They can run misleading ads, they can pursue the politics of anything goes. It will not work. Not this time. I think that folks are looking for something different this time. It's easy to rile up a crowd, nothing's easier than riling up a crowd by stoking anger and division. But that's not what we need right now in the United States. The times are too serious," Obama said at a rally in Chillicothe, Ohio.
But some anger found at McCain-Palin rallies is, however, directed at McCain. Watch analysts weigh in on the recent attacks »
"I am begging you, sir, I am begging you, take it to him," another supporter said to the Arizona senator at the Wisconsin rally.
McCain, however, seems torn. On one hand, he is going negative on the Ayers controversy.
"The point is, Sen. Obama said he was just a guy in the neighborhood. We know that's not true," he said at the rally in Wisconsin. "We need to know the full extent of the relationship because of whether Sen. Obama is telling the truth to the American people or not."
On the other hand, McCain is trying to focus on the economic downturn plaguing the country.
"But I also, my friends, want to address the greatest financial challenge of our lifetime with a positive plan for action," he added.
Also, the McCains said months ago they didn't want their son Jimmy -- a Marine serving in Iraq -- dragged into the campaign.
But on Thursday, Cindy McCain brought up her son.
She criticized the Illinois senator for voting against a bill to fund troops in Iraq, a regular line of attack from her husband's campaign.
"The day that Sen. Obama cast a vote not to fund my son when he was serving sent a cold chill through my body, let me tell you," she told a Pennsylvania crowd before introducing her husband and his No. 2.
The vote Cindy McCain is referencing came in May 2007, when Obama was one of 14 senators who voted against a war-spending plan that would have provided emergency funds for American troops overseas.
A CNN fact check deemed the charge that Obama voted against troop funding "misleading.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/10/mccain.crowd/index.html
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24476557-663,00.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/10/10/politics/horserace/entry4513591.shtml
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Wanawake wa Alaska wampinga Sarah Palin
Tumesikia habari kidogo tu kuhusu hao akina mama wanaompinga Palin huko Alaska. Yaani Republicans wanajitahidi kweli kuzima habari mbaya dhidi ya Sarah Palin ambaye ni makamu wa John McCain anayegombea kiti cha rais wa Marekani kupitia chama cha Republican. Sarah Palin ni mbumbumbu na ndo maana walimficha jana wakati akiongea na maraisi wa nchi za nje. Alisoma Community colleges na vyuo vikuu tano katika kipindi cha miaka sita.
Sarah Palin hajui mambo ya nchi za nje (foreign affairs), na navyomwona hajui hata mambo ya hapa Marekani na states 49 zaidi ya Alaska. Alipata passport yake ya kwanza mwaka jana tu. Alilazimishwa wanawake waliobakwa kulipia exams (testi za kuhakikisha ubakaji) zao huko hospitalini! Na ni ajabu, tangu ateuliwe hajafanya Press Conference (kuongea na waandishi wa habari) na hajibu maswali akiwa safarini lakini wanarushusiwa kumpiga picha. Khaa! Wanaficha nini?
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Psssst...pass it on!
[The] Alaska Women Reject Palin rally was to be held outside on the lawn in front of the Loussac Library in midtown Anchorage. Home made signs were encouraged, and the idea was to make a statement that Sarah Palin does not speak for all Alaska women, or men. I had no idea what to expect.
The rally was organized by a small group of women, talking over coffee. It made me wonder what other things have started with small groups of women talking over coffee. It's probably an impressive list. These women hatched the plan, printed up flyers, posted them around town, and sent notices to local media outlets. One of those media outlets was KBYR radio, home of Eddie Burke, a long-time uber-conservative Anchorage talk show host. Turns out that Eddie Burke not only announced the rally, but called the people who planned to attend the rally "a bunch of socialist baby-killing maggots," and read the home phone numbers of the organizers aloud over the air, urging listeners to call and tell them what they thought. The women, of course, received some nasty, harassing and threatening messages.
I felt a bit apprehensive. I'd been disappointed before by the turnout at other rallies. Basically, in Anchorage, if you can get 25 people to show up at an event, it's a success. So, I thought to myself, if we can actually get 100 people there that aren't sent by Eddie Burke, we'll be doing good. A real statement will have been made. I confess, I still had a mental image of 15 demonstrators surrounded by hundreds of menacing "socialist baby-killing maggot" haters.
It's a good thing I wasn't tailgating when I saw the crowd in front of the library or I would have ended up in somebody's trunk. When I got there, about 20 minutes early, the line of sign wavers stretched the full length of the library grounds, along the edge of the road, 6 or 7 people deep! I could hardly find a place to park. I nabbed one of the last spots in the library lot, and as I got out of the car and started walking, people seemed to join in from every direction, carrying signs.
Never, have I seen anything like it in my 17 and a half years living in Anchorage. The organizers had someone walk the rally with a counter, and they clicked off well over 1400 people (not including the 90 counter-demonstrators). This was the biggest political rally ever, in the history of the state. I was absolutely stunned. The second most amazing thing is how many people honked and gave the thumbs up as they drove by. And even those that didn't honk looked wide-eyed and awe-struck at the huge crowd that was growing by the minute. This just doesn't happen here.
Then, the infamous Eddie Burke showed up. He tried to talk to the media, and was instantly surrounded by a group of 20 people who started shouting O-BA-MA so loud he couldn't be heard. Then passing cars started honking in a rhythmic pattern of 3, like the Obama chant, while the crowd cheered, hooted and waved their signs high.
So, if you've been doing the math Yes. The Alaska Women Reject Palin rally was significantly bigger than Palin's rally that got all the national media coverage! So take heart, sit back, and enjoy the photo gallery. Feel free to spread the pictures around to anyone who needs to know that Sarah Palin most definitely does not speak for all Alaskans. The citizens of Alaska, who know her best, have things to say.
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Psssst...pass it on!
[The] Alaska Women Reject Palin rally was to be held outside on the lawn in front of the Loussac Library in midtown Anchorage. Home made signs were encouraged, and the idea was to make a statement that Sarah Palin does not speak for all Alaska women, or men. I had no idea what to expect.
The rally was organized by a small group of women, talking over coffee. It made me wonder what other things have started with small groups of women talking over coffee. It's probably an impressive list. These women hatched the plan, printed up flyers, posted them around town, and sent notices to local media outlets. One of those media outlets was KBYR radio, home of Eddie Burke, a long-time uber-conservative Anchorage talk show host. Turns out that Eddie Burke not only announced the rally, but called the people who planned to attend the rally "a bunch of socialist baby-killing maggots," and read the home phone numbers of the organizers aloud over the air, urging listeners to call and tell them what they thought. The women, of course, received some nasty, harassing and threatening messages.
I felt a bit apprehensive. I'd been disappointed before by the turnout at other rallies. Basically, in Anchorage, if you can get 25 people to show up at an event, it's a success. So, I thought to myself, if we can actually get 100 people there that aren't sent by Eddie Burke, we'll be doing good. A real statement will have been made. I confess, I still had a mental image of 15 demonstrators surrounded by hundreds of menacing "socialist baby-killing maggot" haters.
It's a good thing I wasn't tailgating when I saw the crowd in front of the library or I would have ended up in somebody's trunk. When I got there, about 20 minutes early, the line of sign wavers stretched the full length of the library grounds, along the edge of the road, 6 or 7 people deep! I could hardly find a place to park. I nabbed one of the last spots in the library lot, and as I got out of the car and started walking, people seemed to join in from every direction, carrying signs.
Never, have I seen anything like it in my 17 and a half years living in Anchorage. The organizers had someone walk the rally with a counter, and they clicked off well over 1400 people (not including the 90 counter-demonstrators). This was the biggest political rally ever, in the history of the state. I was absolutely stunned. The second most amazing thing is how many people honked and gave the thumbs up as they drove by. And even those that didn't honk looked wide-eyed and awe-struck at the huge crowd that was growing by the minute. This just doesn't happen here.
Then, the infamous Eddie Burke showed up. He tried to talk to the media, and was instantly surrounded by a group of 20 people who started shouting O-BA-MA so loud he couldn't be heard. Then passing cars started honking in a rhythmic pattern of 3, like the Obama chant, while the crowd cheered, hooted and waved their signs high.
So, if you've been doing the math Yes. The Alaska Women Reject Palin rally was significantly bigger than Palin's rally that got all the national media coverage! So take heart, sit back, and enjoy the photo gallery. Feel free to spread the pictures around to anyone who needs to know that Sarah Palin most definitely does not speak for all Alaskans. The citizens of Alaska, who know her best, have things to say.
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Ukweli Kuhusu Sarah Palin
Kuna mtu huko Alsaska ambaye kamchambua Mama Sarah Palin ambaye ni makamu wa Mzee John McCain anayegombea urais kwenye kiti cha Republicans.
Kuna mtu ame-hack e-mail ya Sarah Palin pia. Mnaweza kusoma habari hapa: BOFYA HAPA
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Courtesy of Anne Kilkenny of Wasilla, Alaska, and Ben Smith's Blog ( http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/), where I first saw this.
Dear friends,
So many people have asked me about what I know about Sarah Palin in the last 2 days that I decided to write something up . . .
Basically, Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton have only 2 things in common: their gender and their good looks.
You have my permission to forward this to your friends/email contacts
with my name and email address attached, but please do not post it on
any websites, as there are too many kooks out there . . .
Thanks,
Anne
ABOUT SARAH PALIN
I am a resident of Wasilla, Alaska. I have known Sarah since 1992.
Everyone here knows Sarah, so it is nothing special to say we are on a
first-name basis. Our children have attended the same schools. Her
father was my child's favorite substitute teacher. I also am on a first
name basis with her parents and mother-in-law. I attended more City
Council meetings during her administration than about 99% of the
residents of the city.
She is enormously popular; in every way she's like the most popular
girl in middle school. Even men who think she is a poor choice and
won't vote for her can't quit smiling when talking about her because
she is a "babe".
It is astonishing and almost scary how well she can keep a secret. She
kept her most recent pregnancy a secret from her children and parents
for seven months.
She is "pro-life". She recently gave birth to a Down's syndrome baby. There is no cover-up involved, here; Trig is her baby.
She is energetic and hardworking. She regularly worked out at the gym.
She is savvy. She doesn't take positions; she just "puts things out
there" and if they prove to be popular, then she takes credit.
Her husband works a union job on the North Slope for BP and is a
champion snowmobile racer. Todd Palin's kind of job is highly
sought-after because of the schedule and high pay. He arranges his work
schedule so he can fish for salmon in Bristol Bay for a month or so in
summer, but by no stretch of the imagination is fishing their major
source of income. Nor has her life-style ever been anything like that
of native Alaskans.
Sarah and her whole family are avid hunters.
She's smart.
Her experience is as mayor of a city with a population of about 5,000
(at the time), and less than 2 years as governor of a state with about
670,000 residents.
During her mayoral administration most of the actual work of running
this small city was turned over to an administrator. She had been
pushed to hire this administrator by party power-brokers after she had
gotten herself into some trouble over precipitous firings which had
given rise to a recall campaign.
Sarah campaigned in Wasilla as a "fiscal conservative". During her 6
years as Mayor, she increased general government expenditures by over
33%. During those same 6 years the amount of taxes collected by the
City increased by 38%. This was during a period of low inflation
(1996-2002). She reduced progressive property taxes and increased a
regressive sales tax which taxed even food. The tax cuts that she
promoted benefited large corporate property owners way more than they
benefited residents.
The huge increases in tax revenues during her mayoral administration
weren't enough to fund everything on her wish list though, borrowed
money was needed, too. She inherited a city with zero debt, but left it
with indebtedness of over $22 million. What did Mayor Palin encourage
the voters to borrow money for? Was it the infrastructure that she said
she supported? The sewage treatment plant that the city lacked? or a
new library? No. $1m for a park. $15m-plus for construction of a
multi-use sports complex which she rushed through to build on a piece
of property that the City didn't even have clear title to, that was
still in litigation 7 yrs later--to the delight of the lawyers
involved! The sports complex itself is a nice addition to the community
but a huge money pit, not the profit-generator she claimed it would be.
She also supported bonds for $5.5m for road projects that could have
been done in 5-7 yrs without any borrowing.
While Mayor, City Hall was extensively remodeled and her office redecorated more than once.
These are small numbers, but Wasilla is a very small city.
As an oil producer, the high price of oil has created a budget surplus
in Alaska. Rather than invest this surplus in technology that will make
us energy independent and increase efficiency, as Governor she proposed
distribution of this surplus to every individual in the state.
In this time of record state revenues and budget surpluses, she
recommended that the state borrow/bond for road projects, even while
she proposed distribution of surplus state revenues: spend today's
surplus, borrow for needs.
She's not very tolerant of divergent opinions or open to outside ideas
or compromise. As Mayor, she fought ideas that weren't generated by her
or her staff. Ideas weren't evaluated on their merits, but on the basis
of who proposed them.
While Sarah was Mayor of Wasilla she tried to fire our highly respected
City Librarian because the Librarian refused to consider removing from
the library some books that Sarah wanted removed. City residents
rallied to the defense of the City Librarian and against Palin's
attempt at out-and-out censorship, so Palin backed down and withdrew
her termination letter. People who fought her attempt to oust the
Librarian are on her enemies list to this day.
Sarah complained about the "old boy's club" when she first ran for
Mayor, so what did she bring Wasilla? A new set of "old boys". Palin
fired most of the experienced staff she inherited. At the City and as
Governor she hired or elevated new, inexperienced, obscure people,
creating a staff totally dependent on her for their jobs and eternally
grateful and fiercely loyal--loyal to the point of abusing their power
to further her personal agenda, as she has acknowledged happened in the
case of pressuring the State's top cop (see below).
As Mayor, Sarah fired Wasilla's Police Chief because he "intimidated"
her, she told the press. As Governor, her recent firing of Alaska's top
cop has the ring of familiarity about it. He served at her pleasure and
she had every legal right to fire him, but it's pretty clear that an
important factor in her decision to fire him was because he wouldn't
fire her sister's ex-husband, a State Trooper. Under investigation for
abuse of power, she has had to admit that more than 2 dozen contacts
were made between her staff and family to the person that she later
fired, pressuring him to fire her ex-brother-in-law. She tried to
replace the man she fired with a man who she knew had been reprimanded
for sexual harassment; when this caused a public furor, she withdrew
her support.
She has bitten the hand of every person who extended theirs to her in
help. The City Council person who personally escorted her around town
introducing her to voters when she first ran for Wasilla City Council
became one of her first targets when she was later elected Mayor. She
abruptly fired her loyal City Administrator; even people who didn't
like the guy were stunned by this ruthlessness.
Fear of retribution has kept all of these people from saying anything publicly about her.
When then-Governor Murkowski was handing out political plums, Sarah got
the best, Chair of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission: one
of the few jobs not in Juneau and one of the best paid. She had no
background in oil & gas issues. Within months of scoring this great
job which paid $122,400/yr, she was complaining in the press about the
high salary. I was told that she hated that job: the commute, the
structured hours, the work. Sarah became aware that a member of this
Commission (who was also the State Chair of the Republican Party)
engaged in unethical behavior on the job. In a gutsy move which some
undoubtedly cautioned her could be political suicide, Sarah solved all
her problems in one fell swoop: got out of the job she hated and
garnered gobs of media attention as the patron saint of ethics and as a
gutsy fighter against the "old boys' club" when she dramatically quit,
exposing this man's ethics violations (for which he was fined).
As Mayor, she had her hand stuck out as far as anyone for pork from
Senator Ted Stevens. Lately, she has castigated his pork-barrel
politics and publicly humiliated him. She only opposed the "bridge to
nowhere" after it became clear that it would be unwise not to.
As Governor, she gave the Legislature no direction and budget
guidelines, then made a big grandstand display of line-item vetoing
projects, calling them pork. Public outcry and further legislative
action restored most of these projects--which had been vetoed simply
because she was not aware of their importance--but with the unobservant
she had gained a reputation as "anti-pork".
She is solidly Republican: no political maverick. The State party
leaders hate her because she has bit them in the back and humiliated
them. Other members of the party object to her self-description as a
fiscal conservative.
Around Wasilla there are people who went to high school with Sarah.
They call her "Sarah Barracuda" because of her unbridled ambition and
predatory ruthlessness. Before she became so powerful, very ugly
stories circulated around town about shenanigans she pulled to be made
point guard on the high school basketball team. When Sarah's
mother-in-law, a highly respected member of the community and
experienced manager, ran for Mayor, Sarah refused to endorse her.
As Governor, she stepped outside of the box and put together of package
of legislation known as "AGIA" that forced the oil companies to march
to the beat of her drum.
Like most Alaskans, she favors drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife
Refuge. She has questioned if the loss of sea ice is linked to global
warming. She campaigned "as a private citizen" against a state
initiaitive that would have either a) protected salmon streams from
pollution from mines, or b) tied up in the courts all mining in the
state (depending on who you listen to). She has pushed the State's
lawsuit against the Dept. of the Interior's decision to list polar
bears as threatened species.
McCain is the oldest person to ever run for President; Sarah will be a heartbeat away from being President.
There has to be literally millions of Americans who are more knowledgeable and experienced than she.
However, there's a lot of people who have underestimated her and are regretting it.
CLAIM VS FACT
*"Hockey mom": true for a few years.
*"PTA mom": true years ago when her first-born was in elementary school, not since.
*"NRA supporter": absolutely true
*social conservative: mixed. Opposes gay marriage, BUT vetoed a bill
that would have denied benefits to employees in same-sex relationships
(said she did this because it was unconsitutional).
*pro-creationism: mixed. Supports it, BUT did nothing as Governor to promote it.
*"Pro-life": mixed. Knowingly gave birth to a Down's syndrome baby BUT
declined to call a special legislative session on some pro-life
legislation
*"Experienced": Some high schools have more students than Wasilla has
residents. Many cities have more residents than the state of Alaska. No
legislative experience other than City Council. Little hands-on
supervisory or managerial experience; needed help of a city
administrator to run town of about 5,000.
*political maverick: not at all
*gutsy: absolutely!
*open & transparent: ??? Good at keeping secrets. Not good at explaining actions.
*has a developed philosophy of public policy: no
*"a Greenie": no. Turned Wasilla into a wasteland of big box stores and
disconnected parking lots. Is pro-drilling off-shore and in ANWR.
*fiscal conservative: not by my definition!
*pro-infrastructure: No. Promoted a sports complex and park in a city
without a sewage treatment plant or storm drainage system. Built
streets to early 20th century standards.
*pro-tax relief: Lowered taxes for businesses, increased tax burden on residents
*pro-small government: No. Oversaw greatest expansion of city government in Wasilla's history.
*pro-labor/pro-union. No. Just because her husband works union doesn't
make her pro-labor. I have seen nothing to support any claim that she
is pro-labor/pro-union.
WHY AM I WRITING THIS?
First, I have long believed in the importance of being an informed
voter. I am a voter registrar. For 10 years I put on student voting
programs in the schools. If you google my name (Anne Kilkenny +
Alaska), you will find references to my participation in local
government, education, and PTA/parent organizations.
Secondly, I've always operated in the belief that "Bad things happen
when good people stay silent". Few people know as much as I do because
few have gone to as many City Council meetings.
Third, I am just a housewife. I don't have a job she can bump me out
of. I don't belong to any organization that she can hurt. But, I am no
fool; she is immensely popular here, and it is likely that this will
cost me somehow in the future: that's life.
Fourth, she has hated me since back in 1996, when I was one of the 100
or so people who rallied to support the City Librarian against Sarah's
attempt at censorship.
Fifth, I looked around and realized that everybody else was afraid to say anything because they were somehow vulnerable.
CAVEATS
I am not a statistician. I developed the numbers for the increase in
spending & taxation 2 years ago (when Palin was running for
Governor) from information supplied to me by the Finance Director of
the City of Wasilla, and I can't recall exactly what I adjusted for:
did I adjust for inflation? for population increases? Right now, it is
impossible for a private person to get any info out of City Hall--they
are swamped. So I can't verify my numbers.
You may have noticed that there are various numbers circulating for the
population of Wasilla, ranging from my "about 5,000", up to 9,000. The
day Palin's selection was announced a city official told me that the
current population is about 7,000. The official 2000 census count was
5,460. I have used about 5,000 because Palin was Mayor from 1996 to
2002, and the city was growing rapidly in the mid-90's.
Anne Kilkenny
August 31, 2008
***************************************************************
Courtesy of Anne Kilkenny of Wasilla, Alaska, and Ben Smith's Blog ( http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/), where I first saw this.
Dear friends,
So many people have asked me about what I know about Sarah Palin in the last 2 days that I decided to write something up . . .
Basically, Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton have only 2 things in common: their gender and their good looks.
You have my permission to forward this to your friends/email contacts
with my name and email address attached, but please do not post it on
any websites, as there are too many kooks out there . . .
Thanks,
Anne
ABOUT SARAH PALIN
I am a resident of Wasilla, Alaska. I have known Sarah since 1992.
Everyone here knows Sarah, so it is nothing special to say we are on a
first-name basis. Our children have attended the same schools. Her
father was my child's favorite substitute teacher. I also am on a first
name basis with her parents and mother-in-law. I attended more City
Council meetings during her administration than about 99% of the
residents of the city.
She is enormously popular; in every way she's like the most popular
girl in middle school. Even men who think she is a poor choice and
won't vote for her can't quit smiling when talking about her because
she is a "babe".
It is astonishing and almost scary how well she can keep a secret. She
kept her most recent pregnancy a secret from her children and parents
for seven months.
She is "pro-life". She recently gave birth to a Down's syndrome baby. There is no cover-up involved, here; Trig is her baby.
She is energetic and hardworking. She regularly worked out at the gym.
She is savvy. She doesn't take positions; she just "puts things out
there" and if they prove to be popular, then she takes credit.
Her husband works a union job on the North Slope for BP and is a
champion snowmobile racer. Todd Palin's kind of job is highly
sought-after because of the schedule and high pay. He arranges his work
schedule so he can fish for salmon in Bristol Bay for a month or so in
summer, but by no stretch of the imagination is fishing their major
source of income. Nor has her life-style ever been anything like that
of native Alaskans.
Sarah and her whole family are avid hunters.
She's smart.
Her experience is as mayor of a city with a population of about 5,000
(at the time), and less than 2 years as governor of a state with about
670,000 residents.
During her mayoral administration most of the actual work of running
this small city was turned over to an administrator. She had been
pushed to hire this administrator by party power-brokers after she had
gotten herself into some trouble over precipitous firings which had
given rise to a recall campaign.
Sarah campaigned in Wasilla as a "fiscal conservative". During her 6
years as Mayor, she increased general government expenditures by over
33%. During those same 6 years the amount of taxes collected by the
City increased by 38%. This was during a period of low inflation
(1996-2002). She reduced progressive property taxes and increased a
regressive sales tax which taxed even food. The tax cuts that she
promoted benefited large corporate property owners way more than they
benefited residents.
The huge increases in tax revenues during her mayoral administration
weren't enough to fund everything on her wish list though, borrowed
money was needed, too. She inherited a city with zero debt, but left it
with indebtedness of over $22 million. What did Mayor Palin encourage
the voters to borrow money for? Was it the infrastructure that she said
she supported? The sewage treatment plant that the city lacked? or a
new library? No. $1m for a park. $15m-plus for construction of a
multi-use sports complex which she rushed through to build on a piece
of property that the City didn't even have clear title to, that was
still in litigation 7 yrs later--to the delight of the lawyers
involved! The sports complex itself is a nice addition to the community
but a huge money pit, not the profit-generator she claimed it would be.
She also supported bonds for $5.5m for road projects that could have
been done in 5-7 yrs without any borrowing.
While Mayor, City Hall was extensively remodeled and her office redecorated more than once.
These are small numbers, but Wasilla is a very small city.
As an oil producer, the high price of oil has created a budget surplus
in Alaska. Rather than invest this surplus in technology that will make
us energy independent and increase efficiency, as Governor she proposed
distribution of this surplus to every individual in the state.
In this time of record state revenues and budget surpluses, she
recommended that the state borrow/bond for road projects, even while
she proposed distribution of surplus state revenues: spend today's
surplus, borrow for needs.
She's not very tolerant of divergent opinions or open to outside ideas
or compromise. As Mayor, she fought ideas that weren't generated by her
or her staff. Ideas weren't evaluated on their merits, but on the basis
of who proposed them.
While Sarah was Mayor of Wasilla she tried to fire our highly respected
City Librarian because the Librarian refused to consider removing from
the library some books that Sarah wanted removed. City residents
rallied to the defense of the City Librarian and against Palin's
attempt at out-and-out censorship, so Palin backed down and withdrew
her termination letter. People who fought her attempt to oust the
Librarian are on her enemies list to this day.
Sarah complained about the "old boy's club" when she first ran for
Mayor, so what did she bring Wasilla? A new set of "old boys". Palin
fired most of the experienced staff she inherited. At the City and as
Governor she hired or elevated new, inexperienced, obscure people,
creating a staff totally dependent on her for their jobs and eternally
grateful and fiercely loyal--loyal to the point of abusing their power
to further her personal agenda, as she has acknowledged happened in the
case of pressuring the State's top cop (see below).
As Mayor, Sarah fired Wasilla's Police Chief because he "intimidated"
her, she told the press. As Governor, her recent firing of Alaska's top
cop has the ring of familiarity about it. He served at her pleasure and
she had every legal right to fire him, but it's pretty clear that an
important factor in her decision to fire him was because he wouldn't
fire her sister's ex-husband, a State Trooper. Under investigation for
abuse of power, she has had to admit that more than 2 dozen contacts
were made between her staff and family to the person that she later
fired, pressuring him to fire her ex-brother-in-law. She tried to
replace the man she fired with a man who she knew had been reprimanded
for sexual harassment; when this caused a public furor, she withdrew
her support.
She has bitten the hand of every person who extended theirs to her in
help. The City Council person who personally escorted her around town
introducing her to voters when she first ran for Wasilla City Council
became one of her first targets when she was later elected Mayor. She
abruptly fired her loyal City Administrator; even people who didn't
like the guy were stunned by this ruthlessness.
Fear of retribution has kept all of these people from saying anything publicly about her.
When then-Governor Murkowski was handing out political plums, Sarah got
the best, Chair of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission: one
of the few jobs not in Juneau and one of the best paid. She had no
background in oil & gas issues. Within months of scoring this great
job which paid $122,400/yr, she was complaining in the press about the
high salary. I was told that she hated that job: the commute, the
structured hours, the work. Sarah became aware that a member of this
Commission (who was also the State Chair of the Republican Party)
engaged in unethical behavior on the job. In a gutsy move which some
undoubtedly cautioned her could be political suicide, Sarah solved all
her problems in one fell swoop: got out of the job she hated and
garnered gobs of media attention as the patron saint of ethics and as a
gutsy fighter against the "old boys' club" when she dramatically quit,
exposing this man's ethics violations (for which he was fined).
As Mayor, she had her hand stuck out as far as anyone for pork from
Senator Ted Stevens. Lately, she has castigated his pork-barrel
politics and publicly humiliated him. She only opposed the "bridge to
nowhere" after it became clear that it would be unwise not to.
As Governor, she gave the Legislature no direction and budget
guidelines, then made a big grandstand display of line-item vetoing
projects, calling them pork. Public outcry and further legislative
action restored most of these projects--which had been vetoed simply
because she was not aware of their importance--but with the unobservant
she had gained a reputation as "anti-pork".
She is solidly Republican: no political maverick. The State party
leaders hate her because she has bit them in the back and humiliated
them. Other members of the party object to her self-description as a
fiscal conservative.
Around Wasilla there are people who went to high school with Sarah.
They call her "Sarah Barracuda" because of her unbridled ambition and
predatory ruthlessness. Before she became so powerful, very ugly
stories circulated around town about shenanigans she pulled to be made
point guard on the high school basketball team. When Sarah's
mother-in-law, a highly respected member of the community and
experienced manager, ran for Mayor, Sarah refused to endorse her.
As Governor, she stepped outside of the box and put together of package
of legislation known as "AGIA" that forced the oil companies to march
to the beat of her drum.
Like most Alaskans, she favors drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife
Refuge. She has questioned if the loss of sea ice is linked to global
warming. She campaigned "as a private citizen" against a state
initiaitive that would have either a) protected salmon streams from
pollution from mines, or b) tied up in the courts all mining in the
state (depending on who you listen to). She has pushed the State's
lawsuit against the Dept. of the Interior's decision to list polar
bears as threatened species.
McCain is the oldest person to ever run for President; Sarah will be a heartbeat away from being President.
There has to be literally millions of Americans who are more knowledgeable and experienced than she.
However, there's a lot of people who have underestimated her and are regretting it.
CLAIM VS FACT
*"Hockey mom": true for a few years.
*"PTA mom": true years ago when her first-born was in elementary school, not since.
*"NRA supporter": absolutely true
*social conservative: mixed. Opposes gay marriage, BUT vetoed a bill
that would have denied benefits to employees in same-sex relationships
(said she did this because it was unconsitutional).
*pro-creationism: mixed. Supports it, BUT did nothing as Governor to promote it.
*"Pro-life": mixed. Knowingly gave birth to a Down's syndrome baby BUT
declined to call a special legislative session on some pro-life
legislation
*"Experienced": Some high schools have more students than Wasilla has
residents. Many cities have more residents than the state of Alaska. No
legislative experience other than City Council. Little hands-on
supervisory or managerial experience; needed help of a city
administrator to run town of about 5,000.
*political maverick: not at all
*gutsy: absolutely!
*open & transparent: ??? Good at keeping secrets. Not good at explaining actions.
*has a developed philosophy of public policy: no
*"a Greenie": no. Turned Wasilla into a wasteland of big box stores and
disconnected parking lots. Is pro-drilling off-shore and in ANWR.
*fiscal conservative: not by my definition!
*pro-infrastructure: No. Promoted a sports complex and park in a city
without a sewage treatment plant or storm drainage system. Built
streets to early 20th century standards.
*pro-tax relief: Lowered taxes for businesses, increased tax burden on residents
*pro-small government: No. Oversaw greatest expansion of city government in Wasilla's history.
*pro-labor/pro-union. No. Just because her husband works union doesn't
make her pro-labor. I have seen nothing to support any claim that she
is pro-labor/pro-union.
WHY AM I WRITING THIS?
First, I have long believed in the importance of being an informed
voter. I am a voter registrar. For 10 years I put on student voting
programs in the schools. If you google my name (Anne Kilkenny +
Alaska), you will find references to my participation in local
government, education, and PTA/parent organizations.
Secondly, I've always operated in the belief that "Bad things happen
when good people stay silent". Few people know as much as I do because
few have gone to as many City Council meetings.
Third, I am just a housewife. I don't have a job she can bump me out
of. I don't belong to any organization that she can hurt. But, I am no
fool; she is immensely popular here, and it is likely that this will
cost me somehow in the future: that's life.
Fourth, she has hated me since back in 1996, when I was one of the 100
or so people who rallied to support the City Librarian against Sarah's
attempt at censorship.
Fifth, I looked around and realized that everybody else was afraid to say anything because they were somehow vulnerable.
CAVEATS
I am not a statistician. I developed the numbers for the increase in
spending & taxation 2 years ago (when Palin was running for
Governor) from information supplied to me by the Finance Director of
the City of Wasilla, and I can't recall exactly what I adjusted for:
did I adjust for inflation? for population increases? Right now, it is
impossible for a private person to get any info out of City Hall--they
are swamped. So I can't verify my numbers.
You may have noticed that there are various numbers circulating for the
population of Wasilla, ranging from my "about 5,000", up to 9,000. The
day Palin's selection was announced a city official told me that the
current population is about 7,000. The official 2000 census count was
5,460. I have used about 5,000 because Palin was Mayor from 1996 to
2002, and the city was growing rapidly in the mid-90's.
Anne Kilkenny
August 31, 2008
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Kijana mweusi adai ni Baba wa mtoto wa Bristol Palin
Hayo ni mazito. Eti mimba ya Bristol Palin(17) ni ya kijana mweusi! Mama yake Sarah Palin yuko kwenye Ticketi ya Republican, kama makamu wa Mzee John McCain.
Kwa sasa wanamlazimisha kijana wa kizungu Levy Johnston ambaye anajiita 'redneck' amwoe huyo Bristol. Wazungu walivyo wabaguzi, wakijua kuwa mimba ni ya mweusi duh, McCain atapoteza kura.
Kwa sasa wanamlazimisha kijana wa kizungu Levy Johnston ambaye anajiita 'redneck' amwoe huyo Bristol. Wazungu walivyo wabaguzi, wakijua kuwa mimba ni ya mweusi duh, McCain atapoteza kura.
Msikilize huyo kijana hapo:
Kwa habari zaidi soma:
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Je, Sarah Palin ni Mbaguzi?
Gavana Sarah Palin wa AlaskaWadau, kuna habari kuwa huyo Mama ambaye John McCain kamchagua kuwa Makamu Rais wake, ni mbaguzi, na ana roho mbaya. Wanasema kuwa ole wako umwudhi utakiona cha mtema kuni. Mfano, alitaka shemeji yake afukuzwe kazi ya upolisi.
Leo nimepata hii habari kwa e-mail kuhusu Mama Palin. Inatisha. Na naweza kuamini kuwa huko Alaska wenye rangi hawapendwi. Alaska ni 'snow pori' na wingi wa watu wake ni wazungu. Weusi kule ni asilimia mbili tu! Hivyo wakitukana weusi hakuna anayejali. Msiombe kukaa maeneo kama hayo.
Alaska ina watu 700,000 tu. Mji aliyoongoza huyo Mama Palin, Wasilla ina watu 5,000. Kwenye miji mikuu kuna shule zenye wanafunzi zaidi ya watu kwenye huo mji. Je, ataweza kuongoza taifa?
Haya jamani, tumwombee Obama ashinde, lakini roho ya kibaguzi bado upo Marekani na hao McCain/Palin wanaweza kushinda. Watu wamekwisha tabiri kuwa McCain/Palin wakishinda nchi itakuwa na hali mbaya kuliko ilivyokuwa chini ya Bush.
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Alaskans Speak (In A Frightened Whisper): Palin Is “Racist, Sexist, Vindictive, And Mean”
September 5, 2008
by Charley James
“So Sambo beat the bitch!”
This is how Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin described Barack Obama’s win over Hillary Clinton to political colleagues in a restaurant a few days after Obama locked up the Democratic Party presidential nomination.
According to Lucille, the waitress serving her table at the time and who asked that her last name not be used, Gov. Palin was eating lunch with five or six people when the subject of the Democrat’s primary battle came up. The governor, seemingly not caring that people at nearby tables would likely hear her, uttered the slur and then laughed loudly as her meal mates joined in appreciatively.
“It was kind of disgusting,” Lucille, who is part Aboriginal, said in a phone interview after admitting that she is frightened of being discovered telling folks in the “lower 48” about life near the North Pole.
Then, almost with a sigh, she added, “But that’s just Alaska.”
Racial and ethnic slurs may be “just Alaska” and, clearly, they are common, everyday chatter for Palin.
Besides insulting Obama with a Step-N’-Fetch-It, “darkie musical” swipe, people who know her say she refers regularly to Alaska’s Aboriginal people as “Arctic Arabs” – how efficient, lumping two apparently undesirable groups into one ugly description – as well as the more colourful “mukluks” along with the totally unimaginative “f**king Eskimo’s,” according to a number of Alaskans and Wasillians interviewed for this article.
But being openly racist is only the tip of the Palin iceberg. According to Alaskans interviewed for this article, she is also vindictive and mean. We’re talking Rove mean and Nixon vindictive.
No wonder the vast sea of white, cheering faces at the Republican Convention went wild for Sarah: They adore the type, it’s in their genetic code. So much for McCain’s pledge of a “high road” campaign; Palin is incapable of being part of one.
Tough Getting People Who Know Her to Talk
It’s not easy getting people in the 49th state to speak critically about Palin – especially people in Wasilla, where she was mayor. For one thing, with every journalist in the world calling, phone lines into Alaska have been mostly jammed since Friday; as often as not, a recording told me that “all circuits are busy” or numbers just wouldn’t ring. I should think a state that’s been made richer than God by oil could afford telephone lines and cell towers for everyone.
On a more practical level, many people in Alaska, and particularly Wasilla, are reluctant to speak or be quoted by name because they’re afraid of her as well as the state Republican Party machine. Apparently, the power elite are as mean as the winters.
“The GOP is kind of like organized crime up here,” an insurance agent in Anchorage who knows the Palin family, explained. “It’s corrupt and arrogant. They’re all rich because they do private sweetheart deals with the oil companies, and they can destroy anyone. And they will, if they have to.”
“Once Palin became mayor,” he continued, “She became part of that inner circle.”
Like most other people interviewed, he didn’t want his name used out of fear of retribution. Maybe it’s the long winter nights where you don’t see the sun for months that makes people feel as if they’re under constant danger from “the authorities.” As I interviewed residents it began sounding as if living in Alaska controlled by the state Republican Party is like living in the old Soviet Union: See nothing that’s happening, say nothing offensive, and the political commissars leave you alone. But speak out and you get disappeared into a gulag north of the Arctic Circle for who-knows-how-long.
Alright, that’s an exaggeration brought on by my getting too little sleep and building too much anger as I worked this article. But there’s ample evidence of Palin’s vindictive willingness to destroy people she sees as opponents. Just ask the Wasilla town administrator she hired before firing him because he rebelled against the way Palin demanded he do his job, or the town librarian who refused to hold the book burning Walpurgisnach Mayor Palin demanded.
Ironically, Palin was pushed into hiring the administrator by the party poobahs who helped get her elected after she got herself into trouble over a number of precipitous firings which gave rise to a recall campaign.
“People who fought her attempt to oust the librarian are on her enemies list to this day,” states Anne Kilkenny, a Wasilla resident and one of the few Alaskans willing to speak on-the-record, for attribution, about Palin. In fact, Kilkenny actually circulated an e-mail letter about Palin that was verified and printed by The Nation.
For good measure, Palin booted the Wasilla police chief from office because, she told a local newspaper, he “intimidated” her.
Running on Extreme Fringe Evangelical Views
Sarah Palin drew early attention from state GOP apparatchiks when, during her first mayoral campaign, she ran on an anti-abortion platform. Normally, political parties do not get involved in Alaskan municipal elections because they are nonpartisan. But once word of her extreme fringe evangelical views made its way to Juneau, the state capitol, state Republicans tossed some money behind her campaign.
Once in office, Palin set out to build a machine that chewed up anyone who got in her way. The good, Godly Christian turns out to be anything but.
“She’s doesn’t like different opinions and she refuses to compromise,” Kilkenny notes. “When she was mayor, she fought ideas that weren’t hers. Worse, ideas weren’t evaluated on their merits but on the basis of who proposed them.”
Sound familiar? Palin may well be Dick Cheney’s reincarnate.
Something else has a familiar Republican ring to it: Her tax policies, and a “refund surpluses but borrow for the future” attitude.
According to Kilkenny and others in Wasilla as well as Juneau, Palin reduced progressive property taxes for businesses while mayor and increased a regressive sales tax which even hits necessities such as food. The tax cuts she promoted in her St. Paul speech actually benefited large corporate property owners far more than they benefited residents. Indeed, Kilkenny insists that many Wasilla home owners actually saw their tax bill skyrocket to make up for the shortfall. Two other Wasillian’s with whom I spoke said property taxes on their modest, three bedroom homes rose during the Palin regime.
To an outsider, it would seem hard to do, but an oil-rich town with zero debt on the day she was inaugurated mayor was left saddled with $22 million of debt by the time she moved away to become governor – especially since nothing was spent on things such as improving the city’s infrastructure or building a much-needed sewage treatment plant. So what did Mayor Palin spend the taxpayer’s money on, if not fixing streets and scrubbing sewage?
For starters, she remodelled her office. Several times over, as a matter of fact.
Then Palin spent $1 million on an unnecessary, new park that no one other than the contractors and Palin seemed to want. Next, Sarah doled out more than $15 million of taxpayer money for a sports complex that she shoved through even though the city did not own clear title to the land; now, seven years later, the matter is still in litigation and lawyer fees are said to be close to at least half of the original estimated price of the facility.
She also worked hard to get voters approval of a $5.5 million bond proposal for roads that could have been built without borrowing. Anchorage may not be the center of the financial universe but, like good Republicans everywhere, Sarah Palin knows how to please Alaskan bankers and bond dealers.
For good measure, she turned Wasilla into a wasteland of big box stores and disconnected parking lots.
Sarah Barracuda
En route to the governor’s igloo, Palin managed to land what Anne Kilkenny says is the plumb political appointment in the state: Chair of Alaska’s Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (OGCC), a $122,400 per year patronage slot with no real authority to do anything other than hold meetings. She took the job despite having no background in energy issues and, as it turned out, not liking the work.
“She hated the job,” an OGCC staff member who is not authorized to speak with the news media told me. “She hated the hours and she hated what little work there was to do. But she couldn’t figure out a way to get out of the thing without offending Gov. Murkowski” and the state Republican Party regulars, some of whom were pissed off they didn’t get appointed.
But ever the opportunist, Palin quickly concocted a way. First, she waged a campaign with the local news media claiming that the position was overpaid and should be abolished – despite the fact that she lobbied Murkowski hard to get it. Then, mounting what she saw as a white horse, Palin raised a cloud of dust by resigning from the OGCC and riding away with an undeserved reputation as a “reformer.”
But when a local reporter dared to suggest that the reformer Empress has no clothes, Palin tried to get her fired.
“She came at me like I was trying to steal her kids,” said the targeted reporter, who now works for an oil company in Anchorage. “I heard she had a wild temper and vicious mean streak but it’s nothing like you can imagine until she turns it on you.”
Not surprising since some of her high school classmates still openly call her “Sarah Barracuda,” Kilkenny insists.
Still, as a Republican Party hack Palin managed to get herself elected running under the false flag of a “reformer.”
And what did she bring to the job? No legislative experience other than a city council of a village of 5,000 people, which is smaller than some high schools in Chicago. Little hands-on supervisory or managerial experience; after all, she needed to hire a city administrator to run Wasilla. No executive experience, except for almost being recalled as mayor. A philosophy of setting public policy based on one word: No.
And what has she done since winning the job?
According to Kilkenny, nothing. Well, nothing other than suggesting the state’s multi-multi-million dollar, oil-generated surplus be distributed to residents and finance future state needs by borrowing money. Gee, doesn’t that sound precisely what George Bush did with the surplus he inherited from Bill Clinton in 2001 and we all know in what great shape Bush’s economic policies left the nation.
It may explain why, when asked by reporters, including me, what she thought about Palin being picked to be McCain’s running mate, her mother-in-law replied with a sardonic, “What has Sarah done to qualify her to be vice president?” Of course, when the woman – said by many I spoke with to be well-respected in Wasilla – was running to succeed Palin as mayor, Sarah refused to endorse her, so that may explain the family tension.
As Governor, Palin gave the legislature no direction and budget guidelines, according to the chair of a legislative committee. But then she staged a huge grandstand play of line-item vetoing countless projects, calling them pork. “They were restored because of public outcry and legislative action,” the aide said. “She vetoed them mostly because she had no idea what they were or why they were important.”
But it was enough to get the McCain, who is mostly unobservant of the world around him anyway, to think Palin has a reputation as being “anti-pork”.
In fact, Juneau observers note that Palin kept her hand stuck out as far as anyone for pork ladled out by indicted Sen. Ted Stevens. She only opposed the “bridge to nowhere” after it became clear that it would be politically unwise to keep supporting it, these same insiders assert. Then, Palin fell back on her old habits and publicly humiliated him for pork-barrel politics.
As for being “ready on day one” to be commander in chief, despite the repeated public claims she’s made, the Alaska National Guard commander said that, “she has made no command decisions, other than sending some troops to help fight a few brush fires and march in parades at county fairs.”
“Sambo Beat the Bitch”
“Palin is a conniving, manipulative, a**hole,” someone who thinks these are positive traits in a governor told me, summing up Palin’s tenure in Alaska state and local politics.
“She’s a bigot, a racist, and a liar,” is the more blunt assessment of Arnold Gerstheimer who lived in Alaska until two years ago and is now a businessman in Idaho.
“Juneau is a small town; everybody knows everyone else,” he adds. “These stories about what she calls blacks and Eskimos, well, anyone not white and good looking actually, were around long before she became a glint in John McCain’s rheumy eyes. Why do I know they’re true? Because everyone who isn’t aboriginal or Indian in Alaska talks that way.”
“Sambo beat the bitch” may be everyday language up in the bush. Whether it – and the outlook, politics and worldview Palin reflects when she says such things in public – should be part of a presidential campaign is another thing altogether. The comment says as much about McCain as it does about Palin, and it says a lot of things about Americans who overlook such statements (as well as her record) and vote anyway for McCain.
by Charley James
http://www.laprogressive.com/2008/09/05/alaskans-speak-in-a-frightened-whisper-palin-is-%e2%80%9cracist-sexist-vindictive-and-mean%e2%80%9d/
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Ukweli Kuhusu McCain - Uchaguzi 2008
Senator John McCainJamani hizi siasa za hapa Marekani sasa zinapamba moto. Wanavyomchafua Obama kusudi huyo bumbumbu McCain achgauliwe si mchezo. Mtu (McCain) unaulizwa una nyumba ngapi, hujui!!! (Ana nyumba 7 za kifahari) Halafu unategmea watu wanaosota Marekani kulipa mortgage na kodi ya nyumba wakuchague! Lakini WaMarekani ni waajabu. Waliweza kumchagua Bush ambaye aliwadanganya na kufanya maovu ya ajabu!
Ukweli ubaguzi bado upo na sasa wazungu kibao wanajitokeza kusema hawawezi kumpigia kura mweusi hata kama wanakubaliana na sera zake. Ni mtu mweusi! Na leo nimesikia jokes za kibaguzi kuhusu Obama kama niga ni niga tu!
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The Real McCain 2 reached an astonishing 4 million views last week, just as the McCain campaign was trotting out lie after lie at the Republican National Convention. Coincidence? We don't think so. To us, this unprecedented number suggests that the public is desperately seeking the truth about John McCain -- a truth the corporate press still isn't providing.
We're hearing reports of a lot of hand-wringing from people who are scared and don't know what to do. So we came up with a way to put that nervous energy to good use! Join the McCain Truth Squad and a couple of times a week we will send you McCain videos for you to forward on with a personal note to your friends, colleagues and family members.
Join the McCain Truth Squad: http://therealmccain.com/squad?utm_source=rgemail
To get you started, below are five videos that present the Real McCain: an elitist out of touch with hard-working Americans; a double talker who supports a costly war in Iraq but won't support our veterans. Forward this email on. This is the McCain everyone should know.
1. The Real McCain 2: Watch as McCain's YouTube problem became his nightmare in
the video that received over 4 million views.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEtZlR3zp4c
2. Less Jobs. More Wars: What is this 'Iraq war' charge on my bill?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh-T2iGkLJY
3. John McCain vs. John McCain: Tell McCain to get off the Double Talk Express.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioy90nF2anI
4. McCain's Spiritual Guide: The video that caused McCain to renounce Rev. Rod
Parsley's bigoted endorsement.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXZbIGJrDkg
5. Why Won't McCain Sign the GI Bill? Presenting the most blatant hypocrisy of
the McCain campaign.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK_9sI7hzAc
Imagine how differently people would regard McCain if they saw all five of these
videos and learned the truth. That's why we want you to forward this e-mail to
everyone and anyone with a personal note at the top from you. Why send these
videos individually when you can send them all at once? Also, get them on all
the blogs and traditional news sites you can. Make sure you're doing everything
you can to educate the public about the Real McCain.
Yours,
Robert Greenwald
and the Brave New team
Ukweli ubaguzi bado upo na sasa wazungu kibao wanajitokeza kusema hawawezi kumpigia kura mweusi hata kama wanakubaliana na sera zake. Ni mtu mweusi! Na leo nimesikia jokes za kibaguzi kuhusu Obama kama niga ni niga tu!
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The Real McCain 2 reached an astonishing 4 million views last week, just as the McCain campaign was trotting out lie after lie at the Republican National Convention. Coincidence? We don't think so. To us, this unprecedented number suggests that the public is desperately seeking the truth about John McCain -- a truth the corporate press still isn't providing.
We're hearing reports of a lot of hand-wringing from people who are scared and don't know what to do. So we came up with a way to put that nervous energy to good use! Join the McCain Truth Squad and a couple of times a week we will send you McCain videos for you to forward on with a personal note to your friends, colleagues and family members.
Join the McCain Truth Squad: http://therealmccain.com/squad?utm_source=rgemail
To get you started, below are five videos that present the Real McCain: an elitist out of touch with hard-working Americans; a double talker who supports a costly war in Iraq but won't support our veterans. Forward this email on. This is the McCain everyone should know.
1. The Real McCain 2: Watch as McCain's YouTube problem became his nightmare in
the video that received over 4 million views.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEtZlR3zp4c
2. Less Jobs. More Wars: What is this 'Iraq war' charge on my bill?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh-T2iGkLJY
3. John McCain vs. John McCain: Tell McCain to get off the Double Talk Express.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioy90nF2anI
4. McCain's Spiritual Guide: The video that caused McCain to renounce Rev. Rod
Parsley's bigoted endorsement.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXZbIGJrDkg
5. Why Won't McCain Sign the GI Bill? Presenting the most blatant hypocrisy of
the McCain campaign.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK_9sI7hzAc
Imagine how differently people would regard McCain if they saw all five of these
videos and learned the truth. That's why we want you to forward this e-mail to
everyone and anyone with a personal note at the top from you. Why send these
videos individually when you can send them all at once? Also, get them on all
the blogs and traditional news sites you can. Make sure you're doing everything
you can to educate the public about the Real McCain.
Yours,
Robert Greenwald
and the Brave New team
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
McCain anasema ata Veto kila Bia!
Loh! Mgombea rais wa Republicans, John McCain kajikanyaga kweli. Kasema ata veto kila bia! "I will veto every beer..." Yaani badala ya kusema akiwa rais ata 'veto' bill kasema ata 'veto' beer. Huwa maSenator wanaleta bill kuhusu mambo mbalimbali kwa rais na ni juu yake kuzipitisha au anaweza kupinga. Akipinga inaitwa 'veto'.
Sasa watu wamekasirika. Wapenda bia wanasema kuwa ni bora wananyime kila kitu lakini wasinyimwe bia zao! Wengine wanasema kuwa sasa ni wazi kuwa McCain ni mzee mno na hafai kugombea urais. Wanasema kuwa yeye ni mjinga kama George Kichaka na wanamwita McBush.
Mnaweza kuona na kumsikiliza hapa:
Wednesday, February 06, 2008
Uchaguzi wa wagombea Rais Marekani - Hakuna mshindi kamili
Mamilioni ya waMarekani walipiga kura zao jana kupata mgombea rais wa upande wa Democrats na Republicans. Hakuna mshindi kamili kwa pande zote.
Hivi kwa Dems, bado tunaye Obama na Clinton. Kwa Republicans bado wapo Huckabee, Romney na McCain.
Kwa habari zaidi soma:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/02/06/super.main/index.html
Hivi kwa Dems, bado tunaye Obama na Clinton. Kwa Republicans bado wapo Huckabee, Romney na McCain.
Kwa habari zaidi soma:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/02/06/super.main/index.html
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