Ebrima,
Nice to learn that you have more postings for us.We missed your shrewd
contributions to the L.I hope it not the Y2K that caused the long
silent(laugh).
Anyway do have a great weekend.
ARONA
>From: Jabou Joh <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list
><[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Where are you?
>Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 13:32:08 EST
>
>Ebrima,
>
>thanks for your posts and the timely topics you raise, always enjoyed and
>appreciated.
>Regarding the U.S presidential elections, you hit it right on the nail when
>you say that in this race, money talks, and that George Bush Jr certainly
>has it. Goerge has the monied Republican machinery behind him, and this is
>a
>machinery that has become desperate in their effort to put a Repulican in
>the
>White house in these recent years. This desperation has brought out the
>worst
>in the Repulican party, such that their fangs have ben bared in public and
>they do not even try to conceal this ugly side of them anymore. This
>desperation has led to the Paula Joneses, the smearing of Clinton
>appointees,
>and the impeachment hearings. They want to take over the White house any
>way
>they can. At least, paula got a free nose job and a whole new wardrobe in
>the
>attempt.What a cheap way to go!
>McCain touts his Vietnam war experience as a trophy that will land him the
>job, and George says he will bring dignity to the office, all these remarks
>aimed at Bill Clinto and the Democrats, but i think the way the American
>public has voted in the past few years, and their support of the Clinton
>administration even in the face of all these cheap shots, should tell these
>guys a thing or two.
>George Bush Jr thinks he can ride into the White House on his Texas horse
>becuase of the Bush name and big bucks.
>Both of these guys are the same old Republican wolf in sheep's clothing.
>One
>good look at Bush's record as governor of Texas will tell any sane person
>of
>colour that this guy is not someone they need to cast a vote for. One of
>the
>latest controversies is the presence of a monument to the Confederacy at
>the
>Texas supreme court. Black Texans consider it an affront, and a sign that
>they cannot hope for impartial justice at the Texas supreme court, and that
>this monument should come down. Bush's answer: he says the monument should
>not come down just because the Confederacy is synonimous with slavery in
>the
>eyes of Black folks in Texas and around the counrty, becuase he says, the
>Confederacy stood for many family values that should not be thrown out just
>because these people feel this way.Instead, the monument should remain, and
>an explanation added to the inscription, and i wonder what he proposes that
>inscription should be.
>In his preparation for the South Carolina primaries, Bush also gave a major
>cmpaign speech at Bob Jones University, where interacial dating is banned,
>and where they have refused to admit people of colour for many years. The
>guy
>is showing his true colours, and i hope the people are paying attention.
>You are right, Keyes seems to be much more coherent, but i just cannot
>understand why any person of colour in this country can call themselves a
>Republican and be taken seiously.
>My opinion? America as well as the rest of the World cannot afford to have
>a
>Republican president in the White house, and worst still, if that president
>is George Bush Jr. I think the best that Georgie can do for everyone is to
>stay right there on his ranch in big sky country. Me? I am for Albert Gore
>all the way, and infact, putting in my quota to help his campaign any way i
>can.
>
>Jabou Joh
>
>In a message dated 2/16/00 12:43:29 PM Central Standard Time,
>[log in to unmask] writes:
>
><< Jabou Joh, by the way, what is your take on the forthcoming US
>presidential
> election? Last night, I watched the Republican South Carolina Debate on
> CNN's Larry King Live, and thought Alan keyes did better than John McCain
> and George Bush in terms of putting his message across.
>
> He appeared a better communicator than both John McCain and George Bush.
>And
> I also like the fact that unlike John and Bush, Keyes at least did make
>his
> position very clear when it came to the abortion and Gay issues in
> particular. In my view, the USA in particular, and World as a whole,
>deserve
> better leaders than both John McCain and George Bush. (I'll expand on
>this
> one of these days)
>
> Anyway, the reality is that in US politics money talks, and George Bush
> certainly has got a lot it.
>
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