Moribolong, Moribolong, Moribolong. Is your campaign ok? You know you can
talk to me! Its alright. Everything's gonna be ok. Just diversify your
investment portfolio. Don't put all your eggs in a rattan basket.
I do want to share something with you though;
Do you know that just like I share John Edwards' value with our coleagues
here, you have an equal right and privilege to share Obama's value with us? I
didn't know if you know that or not. If you notice, I generally share John
Edwards' value here without castigating or disparaging either Hillary or Obama.
You and Maria Del Sol ought to try try that sometime. Does a body good. Right
now I'm vaiting for that idiot Jengfann to come back once he regroups. His
excuse is that he doesn't like me calling him idiot sometimes. Tell him to wake
up and smell the coffee. Just imagine, A PDOIS diehard (a party that
consistently polls less than 2.2 % in Gambia national polls for umpteen years)
telling me John Edwards' coffin is nailed shot by a 4% gain in Nevada. Can you
imagine the khutzpa Ous? I mean if weren't the most handsomest and the most
generous black man, you wouldn't fault me for conjuring up the most arsenine
pejoratives for this guy. He's lucky I love him and only call him idiot. He and
PDOIS have a lot to learn from John Edwards and Real Democracy. We don't have
time for PDOIS' special interest politics.
Now then. I read the remainder of your notes my good friend Mori. I wish to
share these notes with you and solicit discernments from you before I indulge
you in your soliloquy.
1. I do not desire nor do I seek to contrast Edwards and Obama. To me they
are political cousins. More complementary than associatively reductive. That is
not to say that if that were my aim, I cannot lay bare the essentials of
Obama's worth. The complement just yields more value than the contrast.
2. John Edwards and Obama are both students of law. John Edwards, like Obama
represented plaintiffs. Have you looked into the slum-lord plaintiff of
Obama's yet? or the civil rights plaintiffs of Obama? So what perplexes me is
that with the prodigious volume of Obama's litigious record, you find it more
palpable to regard John Edwards' honourable campaign as merely that of a
plaintiff's lawyer with a diminutive plaintiff population. In effect, your thesis
is severely flawed and does not warrant refutation. Not at this, its primal
stage. I look forward eagerly to better framework.
3. Even when you finally regard both Obama's and Edwards' campaigns, (Not to
Forrrrrrget Hillary is herself a prolific lawyer), your assertions of quality
and affect are minimalist. Not panoramic enough. So I urge you to revisit
some of the assertions in the body of your diagnosis and when you present them
better, I promise I'll engage you thence.
4. I want to commend you however for a great effort. A starving engineer
like me recognises the prolific synthesis of a robust engineer that you
displayed. However, the domain is dis-eased.
I think you and I both shared over the phone our admiration for both Edwards
and Obama some weeks ago? You seem to be comin' at John Edwards and I from
Left field is all. I am a bit beside myself. Unsettled. I want to caution you
that there is a greater plan in full steam for Obama's de-engineering. I want
you to advise Obama to reconnoitre. For I love him so. It will be
presumptuous of me to insert myself in Obama's campaign proper, but should you be
privy, I encourage you to reflect for Pontius Pilate.
Your brother and good friend, Haruna. MQJDT Darbo. Shiekh and Imam. Ithaa
waqa'Atil Waa-qiah. Laisa Li-waq'Atihaa Kaathibah. Khaafidatu Rraafi'A. Ithaa
rujjatil 'Ardu Rajja, wa Bussatil Jibaalu bassan. Fakhaanat habaa'An Munbatthan
wakuntum azwaajan salaasah.............
In a message dated 1/22/2008 5:25:17 A.M. Mountain Standard Time,
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If you want to flesh out where the contrast between Obama and Edwards lie,
you’ve got to take a look at their respective careers before they enter
elective politics.
Edwards entered politics from a successful career as a plaintiff side trial
lawyer. He was representing poor and middle class clients harmed by
corporate greed. Obama got his inspiration to enter politics after spending the early
part of his life as a community organizer, bringing people together to solve
problems for the greater good.
Arguably, both are noble career paths. However, I believe one strategy is
far more appropriate for the task at hand…healing a nation divided and
instituting a more open government.
Edwards is running his campaign as a trial lawyer. The American people in
this scenario constitute a jury and he is the plaintiff's lawyer, eloquently
and forcefully trying to convince them that the defendant corporation is
clearly at fault for the harms in question, and that the plaintiff deserves to be
properly compensated. I think this is a fundamental misunderstanding of the
nature of power and change. In a courtroom, there is ultimately just the jury,
and a (supposedly) neutral judge. If the lawyer can spin the tale in just the
right way, the jury will find for the plaintiff and justice will be served.
The problem is that nothing else will really change. The rules of the game
allow for a limited number of plaintiffs to collect their individual rewards,
while keeping the power structure firmly in place. The jury and the
plaintiffs are in the end just random individuals with no real power. In all
likelihood, at the conclusion of the case, they will never even see each other again.
The trial lawyer then, while often incredibly effective at winning for his
or her individual clients, cannot ultimately bring about the kinds of
fundamental changes in the power structure and rules of the game that are needed.
Obama is running his campaign as a community organizer, putting together a
coalition of disparate allies around a common agenda that focuses more on
creating a more democratic process than on any particular set of outcomes.
Although Obama's rhetoric is toned down as compared to Edwards, the implications of
what he's doing are far more radical.
By bringing new people into the political process, by passing into law the
most far-reaching open government and ethics reform legislation since
Watergate upon entering the Senate, by appealing to Republicans and independents, by
running an open and inclusive campaign based on grassroots organizing and
small donations, Obama's is attempting to fundamentally alter the political
calculus that has ruled for the past three decades.
Ultimately, Edwards talks a great game, but Obama has the strategy to get it
done.
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