Comment by niko

February 25, 2008 @ 1:32 pm

Nick’s one of my favorite journalists. For an (off-topic but) thought-provoking and spot-on read, check out this op-ed on why Africa needs more sweatshops: http://select.nytimes.com/2006/06/06/opinion/06kristof.html. However, do not look to his article last weekend on the political violence in Kenya. It was uncharacteristically one-sided.

This is a good article/video for folks wondering what it’s like in rural Africa. Yes, Obama did make quite the leap. But Barack’s grandparents surely were not desperately poor by African standards. Not only could they afford Barack Sr.’s secondary education (only affordable to middle-class Kenyans), not could they afford Obama Sr’s college education (only affordable to high middle-class Kenyans), but they also somehow worked out a way for Obama Jr’s father to study in America. This is only obtainable by well off and very well connected Kenyans.

So don’t let the bare feet and mud huts fool you. By African standards, Obama came from a well-to-do family.

Comment by niko

February 25, 2008 @ 1:46 pm

Sorry about the broken link to the sweatshop piece. For some reason I can’t find it archived on the NYT website. Probably because it was written when NYT made you subscribe to read their editorals.

Try this one:

http://www.policyinnovations.org/ideas/policy_library/data/01320/_res/id=sa_File1/

If not google Kristof “In Praise of the Maligned Sweatshop” and you should be able to find it.

Comment by Mark Wright

March 3, 2008 @ 3:03 am

What I get a kick out of, is the spin in the USA painted this picture of a future Pres wearing some Kenya type clothes, as possibly being a terror type ( due to the fact he was wearing Mid East turbin ).

FAR OUT. Keep in mind the internet in the USA tends to promote the nude dopey ideolgy and advertize tons of people with NO clothes on.

I thought Obama looked fine with the turbin etc…kinda like a cook in a Chinese restaurant.

Comment by elme

March 6, 2008 @ 10:12 pm

BEWARE -The WEAPONS of MASS DECEPTION:

WMD’s =
NBC, MSNBC - owned by GE
CBS - owned by Westinghouse
CNN - owned by AOL Time Warner
Most of “the Mainstream Media”

THIS ELECTION IS ABOUT - 29 NEW NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS (Big MONEY)
Aka: Dick Cheney’s NEXT Big ENERGY MONOPOLY RIPOFF … ( Plan)….

Whether Cheney’s PLAN succeeds ….OR NOT…. is UP to ALL of YOU.

We all know CORPORATE POWER is in control of our government and ROBBING us every way they can. The “NEWS” media is NOW nearly totally under the CONTROL of Powerful CORPORATE Interests.

The Corporate-Controlled “news” media have interlocking Boards of Directors (same member serves on multiple boards) and all of them serve to enrich their CONGLOMERATED Corporate Masters. (*see FAIR website LINK at the end of this post.)

(YOU can HELP Get the Word Out: Please post this NEWS thruout the Blogsphere and in any NEWS media you can find.)

REAL News you won’t see on TV:

Obama is the pre-packaged “New & Improved Chocolate Flavor” Presidential candidate being Marketed like a PRODUCT - hyped & PUSHED by GE and its WHOLLY-Owned subsidiaries NBC & MSNBC…along with Westinghouse & its subsidiary CBS…while slamming the Clintons all day every day. (Assisted by…CNN/FOX/ and a lot of newspaper & radio media dependent on advertising $$$.) GE is the 2nd largest corporation on the planet.

Obama is IN with the Nuclear Industry: Excelon Corp of Illinois has been one of his largest contributors from his entry into politics to the present. Excelon is the largest nuke operator on the planet;owns Con-Ed of NY; more nukes in Illinois than any other state.

GE, Westinghouse, Excelon & 3 consortiums of other companies are planning to build 29 new nuclear power plants. Their Wholly-Owned & Wholly Influenced “News” media are selling the Obama Product because Obama is in favor of Nukes.

In 2005 Obama Voted FOR the Cheney Energy Bill (H.R.6) which ENABLED the nuke industry to make its Plans to build 29 new nukes-by Guaranteeing Taxpayer Payback of any nuke loans that default. (No nukes were built for the past 30 years because the banks wouldn’t loan the money - too risky)

Obama Voted FOR the Cheney Energy Bill-despite the fact the Congressional Budget Office rated the risk of default on the nuke loans at 50% or greater. (Does that sound like…GOOD…JUDGMENT to You?)

[NY Times has several articles about the nuke plans & a map showing all 29 locations; Wikipedia covers the subject]

Clinton Voted AGAINST the Cheney Energy Bill and said her Energy Plan does not include nuclear.

? “Its about the FUTURE …… Turn The PAGE” ?

Nope. Its about Turning the PAGE BACK to the PAST: Obsloete 50 yr old nuke power plants-the dirtiest most expensive kind/centrally-controlled MONOPOLY POWER-instead of deploying New, Clean, Green De-Centralized Inexpensive Energy.

An ad campaign has already begun on the TV media to re-package & re-name nuclear power plants as: GREEN & CLEAN -for- everybody too young to remember the 1970’s anti-nuke movement and all the Bad News about nuclear energy.

Don’t be taken in by the ad campaigns - Google:’nuclear waste dumps’ & read about the hundreds of BILLIONS of gallons of nuke waste at the Hanford Washington dump; 14 tons of plutonium stored at Rocky Flats, Colorado; Barnwell, South Carolina; leaking into groundwater and rivers; plutonium released into the air around Denver from 500 instances of fires at Rocky Flats; nuke waste stored ON-SITE at every nuke reactor in America…presenting hundreds of potential “dirty bomb” targets for terrorists.

Is it true that Obama takes No Contributions/ NO MONEY from Registered Federal Lobbyists?

Yes. It’s a LawyerSpeak/Trick of: Speaking a Small truth covering up a Big Lie.

Nope, doesn’t take money from REGISTERED FEDERAL Lobbyists.

DOES take money from STATE Lobbyists, Not Registered Lobbyists, AND the wives, husbands, law partners,
…of REGISTERED FEDERAL Lobbyists. Gets money from the same big corporate donors as any other candidate.

Obama’s campaign finances are involved in the prosecution (by Patrick Fitzgerald) and trial of his friend of 20 years Antoin Rezko. Some of the funds… allegedly…extorted by Rezko went into Obama’s campaign coffers.

Curiously, Iraqi Power Plants and fraud are also involved in Rezko’s trial. (Google: Obama -Rezko- Alsammarae-Auichi- IRAQ POWER PLANTS). With the Rezko trial looming over his head Obama, in all good conscience, should not have run for the Presidency - given all the unanswered questions about his involvement with Rezko; including Obama’s meeting with Rezko and Rezko’s friend Iraqi Billionaire Auichi. Obama’s LACK of good conscience in running for President - given the very high risk that the Rezko trial will result in the election of a Republican - reveals Obama’s lack of good conscience and his lack of any regard for his party, his country, or its people. Obama should withdraw from the race.

At the beginning of this campaign season a large majority of voters were looking forward to electing Clinton. Then Obama stepped in and started the dirty campaigning that has created the DIVISION he so hypocritically decries. Obama played “the race card” so he could win in South Carolina. He was caught red-handed playing that race card-but the media blamed it on Clinton -even though they all knew they were pushing THE BIG LIE..

With nearly ALL “the mainstream media” pimping for Obama & slamming, smearing, and lying about the Clintons-it is truly amazing enough voters have seen thru the Media-Created Obama “movement”-for Clinton to STILL be in the race.

The only way a very small minority can CONTROL a very large Majority is: DIVIDE & CONQUER -Exactly the same Republican Strategy/Deception they have successfully pulled for most of the last century And ALL of this century, so far. . .

GE, the nuke industry/wealthy have hedged their bets & they will get 29 new nukes IF either Obama or McCain is elected.

Ladies & Gentlemen, Dads & Moms buy nothing GE & Westinghouse are selling - not Obama, not a washing machine, a dishwasher, 29 nuke power plants, or a garbage disposer …. because there is no garbage disposer for Radioactive Nuke Waste. Do not allow them to poison the earth and your children anymore.

For further Info see Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting website:
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=3258

Comment by Axel

July 10, 2008 @ 8:35 pm

The Latin Community wants a change, now that Obama is the presidential candidate and a minority, most of the hispanic will vote for him. I believe most of the big states like California, Texas, New York, and Florida will be a big factor for Obama to win this election.