Haruna,
Halipha Sallah is an honourable man and one of the most genuine articles of the human species. He is no saint though but he is a decent, honest, inspiring Gambian. So is Sidia Jatta and Sam Sarr and many other Gambians at home or abroad.
Some of you folks criticise these PDOIS gentlemen as if PDOIS were the arhitects of the on-going misery of Gambians. Humans can't live on hope alone. Bread and rice is needed for living as well as fish and meat otherwise poverty and malnuitrition becomes more and more prevalent as is already the trend in our homeland. Currently in the Gambia, when the Senegalese and Guineans put their tools down for whatever reason, Fish and bread becomes scarce in the part of the Kombos I live. We have to stock up fish before the Senegalese fishermen leave for eid festivals or the annual maggal should we want to eat fish while they are away. Meanwhile, unidentified trawlers would be catching fish by night in our waters day in day out for export at profitable prices. In the meantime, there are lots of Gambians who are unemployed and with families to feed. This is no fiction, it's the truth! Sometime ago, when PDOIS advised the Government of the Gambia to invest in acquiring fishing
trawlers which would generate more employment and fish for Gambians, some so-called intellectuals damned such ideas as dangerous Communist and Socialist ideology and a system that would eventually usher in the socialisation of every personal entitlement even wives. The polytricks set in and the voters were bombarded with pure lies and fabrications about what PDOIS represents. I guess then you were in Jamahiriya. Such false propaganda against PDOIS still goes on mostly by armchair critiques with no proofs to back up their hatred of PDOIS.
The acquistion of political power should be the means to a healthy, dignified outcome for the greater masses and not only for a small clique of people who crave for a coronation but no system change. The quality of leadership that PDOIS is endowed with is what Africans both aspires for and deserve. We need honest, dedicated and accountable leaders not self-annointed saviours.
What would you do should Edwards subsequently endorse Obama? I guess follow the leader and the crowd. Remember as you respect and honour Edwards, so do thousands of Gambian respect and share the principles of Halipha. Nuff respect! Is the USA ready for change? I have a dream!
Haruna, you wrote: "Its time y'all wake up and smell the coffee
before its too late. If OBAMA becomes president at this time, blacks will live to
regret it for their entire life. If they think that life is sorry now, they
aint seen nuttin yet. The days of settin on your fanny and expecting a knight
in shining armour to rid you of your misery is OVER."
Do you really believe that Barack will bad for blacks including negroes? I often feel sorry for Obama when he is put on the defensive with the accusation that Obama is a Moslem. It's an accidental underpriveleged status to be a Black in the US. Therefore, Obama cannot be seen to share the same faith with the Al-qaeda leaders. I think the race card is being trumped against Obama. If USA could have a Mormon president or a female president for the first time since the declaration of Independence in 1776, why not a black president for the first time? And why would Obama be bad for blacks? It's a great pity when a blackman thinks like this. It's called mental slavery. George bush is a president but Obama should not be because some people are concerned that the Ku Klux Klan may come back. The color of Obama and the people who support him is immaterial and insignificant to what the future holds for USA. What the USA requires is a leader who understands and respects the diversity
of the world; a person who will deliver a significant break from the current Bush policies of shock and awe in Iraq and Afghanistan. This doesn't mean a capitulation to Al-qaeda's brand of terrorism.
Best wishes!
Bailop
"Bill and Hilary seem so desperate to get back." Bailo.
Bailo, ifanang. Ikeebaayaatale. I beg of you, do not yield to listless
gossip and gaucherie. Ginny is crazy's all I can say. Can you believe someone
hating and slandering admittendly without reason? If that ain't crazy, I don't
know what is.
"I hope America is at least ready for a mixed raced President in the White
House. Amen! I have a dream!" Bailo.
You guys still don't get it. America, like the UK, France, Italy, Sweden,
Denmark, Norway, and Australia etcetera, HAVE ALWAYS BEEN READY FOR MIXED-RACE,
STRAIGHT-RACE, SKEWED-RACE candidates. For AMERICA, that just ain't BARACK
OBAMA at this time. God I hope you guys don't let sentimentalism and
untethered and listless hope confound you. At least not my Bailo and Moribolong. I may
have lost Mr. Jobarteh already, but I'll be damned if I'm gonna lose you and
Ousman.
Please reconsider your unconditional attachment to Barack for President of
America. If you don't like John Edwards, please support Hillary Clinton.
Barack will make a great Secretary of State in either an Edwards or a Clinton
Presidency. Then in 2012, he will have been ready to be President and all of us,
including Edwards and CLinton will make sure he is President. Don't go saying
that I think Barack needs more experience. NO THAT IS NOT what I'm saying
and frankly I think Barack has enough experience to be President somewhere.
Just not America. Barack will only be an effective President of America in a
more benign atmosphere. Not Now. We got a lotta work to do in America to right
the sails after my friend W leaves office. Barack is not suitable for those
challenges. One reason is he does have some conflicts of interest that will
malign his foreign policy. Two is he lives in fantasy land about bringing
independents and republicans to join democrats and move the country forward. Just
ask yourself, if independents, republicans, and democrats were to join
together, would his administration be needed to do anything??? That is the far side
of this fairy tale that our other friend Bill Clinton talks about. In my
eyes, Duval Patrick, Governor of Massachusetts will have gotten my vote were he
to run for President at any time. I know he supports Barack. He has a
different reason for doing that. Bailo, I don't want to go on and on for God knows I
want Barack to get as many black votes as he could, but you guys castigating
the Clintons and every body else for your support of Barack is detrimental to
Barack himself. Don't get carried away by Ginny. You don't know Ginny's
politique. Even she doesn't know her own politique quite well. No comment on
Maria Del Sol. She will deal with her own unique deamons. And tell joe to friggin
settle down. Anytime he opens his big mouth, you think the skies are falling
and life's over. I don't know about you Bailo, but I intend to live for
another year. I must say though that I agree with him this time about giving
idiots a pass. He's just too nervous for my sanity. He's the fear-monger Barack
keeps talking about. And of course my other friend John McCain. I didn't even
know that McCain cannot raise his two hands past his head. I always thought he
was clowning around when he spread his arms wide as he raised them. Men. I
kinda like his fight though, just like I love the fight in John Edwards.
Ok I gotta go now. My contractor knocks at the door. Masoud. MQJDT Darbo. AL
Khairawan.
Haruna Darbo wrote:
I just saw a picture of Halifa without his Afro hair-do!!! Men is he
beautiful. I don't know why in the world he would hide all this beauty under
a wooly
Afro. Men. New Gambians!!! Check it our at _www.senegambianews.com_
(http://www.senegambianews.com)
Suntou, did you ever see Halifa without his Afro and don't you think he's
more handsomer without it?
Haruna.
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