Barack Obama victory speech
4th November 2008, Grant Park, Illinois, Chicago
Hello, Chicago.
If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.
It’s the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen, by people who waited three hours and four hours, many for the first time in their lives, because they believed that this time must be different, that their voices could be that difference. Read more
On Michelle Obama
“I realized that gnawing sense of self doubt that lies within all of us is within our own heads. The truth is we are more ready and more prepared than we even know. My own life is proof of that.” - Michelle Obama, New York Times, 2008
I, Too
I, too
I, too, sing America.
I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes.
But I laugh
And eat well
And grow strong.
Tomorrow
I’ll be at the table
When company comes.
Nobody ‘ll dare
Say to me
“Eat in the Kitchen,”
Then.
Besides,
They’ll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed -
I, too, am America.
—–Langston Hughes
Obama-nia for Africa
Barack Obama
First things first: (his brains aside) Barack Obama is handsome, cool, and energizing like a drop of dew on an October morn.
By ancestry, Obama is an African and it’s not far-fetched to say through him the ancestors have spoken with a voice that has resonated across the globe, rebranding the black image.
Just like me, my friend Innocent has been glued onto Obama’s presidential campaign.
We both know the twist and turns of the law professor cum US Senator cum presidential candidate’s campaign trail like our hidden souls.
“Obama is a shining star of our generation, and his rise has been nothing less than meteoric. He represents a line of great inspirational and transformational leaders like Nelson Mandela, and he’s making history right before our eyes,” says Innocent. Read more
Google CEO for Obama
Google and Obama? Is this the real dream ticket?
“Google Inc. Chief Executive Eric Schmidt will hit the campaign trail this week on behalf of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, signaling Mr. Schmidt’s push for a greater voice in politics while giving the Obama campaign a boost from a highly desirable constituency…”
Read the full story on the Wall Street Journal website
Note though that Schmidt made it clear that Google was NEUTRAL in the elections.
Does ZanuPF need its own Sarah Palin?
I didn’t bother listening to anything the Republicans were saying up until August 29th when John McCain announced Sarah Palin as his pick for Vice President. My first reason for stopping was that this was a major point in the Presidential race, as had been Obama’s pick of Joe Biden barely a week earlier on August 23rd.
A young beautiful female Secretary General or Vice President would help ZANU (PF) not only to raise money, but to give a fresh youthful image to the line-up of party personalities.
The second reason I stopped was that I had never heard of this woman. I immediately googled her- as did millions of other people.
The third reason I stopped was that after googling, I found some pictures that made me ogle. I’m not saying Hilary Clinton, Margaret Thatcher and Angela Merkel are not pretty, but they are not exactly model material and in my head they make up the picture I have of a female politician in the west.
Then came Sarah Palin. Like I said I ogled. This was no politician. This was a beauty queen who at 44 years of age still looks like she could enter a pageant and win.
The thing is- and here’s the thing- I was not the only one who ogled. Around the world MILLIONS of people took second and third looks at the Sarah Palin pictures that came out in papers and on websites- and that’s what has made all the difference. Read more
