OB Sillah,

Good question and I will give you an honest answer.

To be quite honest after the national rally in Washington DC yesterday in front of the White House , I left
with mixed feelings.
I will exercise my right to vote and although my vote may be a wasted vote (as some say) because I made up my
mind to vote for Ralph Nader.
His parents were immigrants from our part of the world .He was born here and protects the consumers which
will also affect all our lives.
Both Gore and Bush claim to be descendants of the British Royal family and have the interests of Europeans
only (nothing wrong with that except that we are left out always)

Republicans and Democrats  will always be the right and left wings of the same BIG GOVERNMENT -BIRD- that
will never fly without those wings .  They both have the same purpose to -to make big government fly.
The Green party is a smaller bird that has our interest financially although it cannot make any changes or
decision in the present American skies ,I will give them my humble vote so that I will not sleep in guilt if
I vote for either Gore or Bush who just  need my vote only on election day and will NEVER care for us until
next election comes around in four years.

My good brother Sang might be voting for the lesser of two Evils Al Gore but I would probably have gone with
the protest vote against Gore and vote for Bush whose education plan suites us better. and at least talks
publicly against racial profiling while Gore remains silent on it. both of them are only making false
promises on the Health  (HMO) issues just to get votes normal for politicians
Bush and Gore both support a war in the middle east by publicly and blindly seeing only one side of the
conflict-The Israeli side, completely ignoring the victims the Palestinian side. What democracy are they
talking about ? Israel where apathied is alive and growing Ethiopian Jews have to be house in different
portions of town ,not allowed to vote ,to serve only in the army's front lines -to be killed first- The
Orthodox Rabbis claim them to be unclean because they are black . What democracy are they talking about . The
arabs born in Israel are second class citizen .
and finally
We pay our taxes here in the USA and it hurts to know that every twenty four hours   close to thirteen
million US Dollars goes to Israel as AID whilst we have poor kids in the inner cities that need it
desperately. This happens everyday times 365 days in the  year.
Yes Clinton is a good man and Hillary will win (inshallah) but Gore ??/ look at his choice for vice president
-It tells it all


My  dear brother  my vote may be wasted but at least I will not help put another devil in the  White House. I
voted for Clinton the last elections and would have again if he was the  candidate, but sorry none for Gore
or Bush from me this  year.

Good day

Habib Diab Ghanim

OB Silla wrote:

> Bro. Habib,
> I thank you for coming back to me on this very important subject (elections),
> for anyone who wins this race will affect our lives one way or the other.
> Hence, my interest in the choice of president.
> However, I will appreciate your infromation on the Washington concensus.
> Furthermore, let us narrow this issue down to choosing between lesser of two
> evils.  Who will you candidly pick Gore and Bush?
>
> Good night,
> OB
>
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