Thanks Cherno and Yero. Glad you like the piece. Baba Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 07:26:45 -0400 From: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [G_L] The Ideal Presidency To: [log in to unmask] Well said... Dr. Jallow On Friday, April 26, 2013, Yero Jallow <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Readers: Please excuse my typos....meant to say, ".....walking with a broken heart..." > > Thanks & best, > Yero > > To: [log in to unmask] > > > Dr. Jallow, > > Like you and LJD, I have often found myself shedding tears many a times with lasting emotions that just make me wonder why some of Africa’s leaders don’t get it. In all honest assessment, young and politically inexperienced as I may be, what you described above is the hallmark of great America. One doesn’t need to look far to realize the greatness in a nation that is so welcoming to freedom. To me, I realized America’s true resemblance to the script on the statue of liberty adopted from Emma Lazarus (The New Colossus). > > While I am NOT a fan of the Bush (both Senior and Junior) for some of how they handled wars with other nations, and the very way that Bush II stayed in power through the Florida fraud machinery against former VP Al Gore, the record of libraries is still a welcomed development. Yes, it does matter to Bush how others many years from now will review his legacy. He knows clearly that he have dark spots on his records. > > On the other hand, it is a shared concern over our leaders. For one, I do see people living through some myths told of kings’ greatness and cruelty in the past, and planting such a mindset goes a long way to create fear in the minds of the governed. While blaming some of our leaders for failure in both development and enlightenment, we must as well partly own up to some of the continent’s misfortunate mostly as seen in the brain drain. We’ve not seen some of Africa’s leaders being confronted with peoples’ power, and those nations that got tested, as seen in the Arab uprising wave, realized that it is the people that in fact matter, and power must be derived from the people. > > Without dwelling more to take your beautiful write-up out of context, I must end by saying that personally, I have been working with a broken heart in some of how I have seen our people behave time and again. Individual success, political hypocrisy and political name-seeking are sweeter to some of our people than common success that benefits all. I think Maafanta’s Papa Loum couldn’t have said it any better, thus: http://www.maafanta.com/papakoumbaloumyayabesthapp. In short, as long as others’ breads are buttered…..(complete the rest). > > Thanks for the continued engagement on political discussions. > > > > Best always, > > Yero. > > > ________________________________ > Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 02:43:53 +0100 > From: [log in to unmask] > Subject: [>-<] Re: [G_L] The Ideal Presidency > To: [log in to unmask] > > Baba > Thanks for writing about your understanding of the significance of the George W Bush Library at the Southern Methodist University Campus in the overall framework of American history. > America is indeed about its magnificent ideas, and I send you my "janso" of tears. Can't control mine either! > > > ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/gambia-l.html > > To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?S1=gambia-l To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/gambia-l.html To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?S1=gambia-l To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/gambia-l.html To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?S1=gambia-l To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤