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I just read that the Dem Party of TX has purged Kucinich from the ballot because he refused to sign a "loyalty oath" to support the party's eventual nominee. He's filed suit to get back on. DFA should support him in this. It violates his first and fourteenth amendment rights. I'm pretty sure he will and hope he does support the nominee, and if they want, the party should certainly publicize that he doesn't want to pledge such support, to bring public pressure on him to do so. But to PURGE him from the ballot? Absolutely not. Especially in the midst of all our hype and hoopla about how we're the "Party of Change" bla bla bla??? It's positively Rovian, and should not stand. As Howard has said a zillion times, "we're BETTER THAN THAT!" Let's see us be better than that in this issue. Support Kucinich's right to be heard and voted for. What are they afraid of, exactly?
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Howard Dean is first here!
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Well, I don't know about a pledge, but we did recently have a well-known situation where one Dem primary loser got into a snit and ran as a Dem-Independent, taking votes away from the candidates that Dem primary voters wanted.
Perhaps that man should have taken a pledge. If he had, Ned Lamont would now be a Senator.
Of course, the Dem party is NOT a cult, but it does seem that if one runs in a primary as a Dem, one should BE one, and one should support the eventual nominee of the Dem party.
Dennis is getting desperate, IMO. It's not pretty.
Sorry, please strike the "s;" it s/b *candidate that Dem primary voters wanted*
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Now off for a time.
2. Obama/Hillary
5. "Thumper" altho I love his passion for stopping the killing.
JE says he has a personal stake in this and I'm convinced about his sincerity. I agree with Linda SF...If IA saw these same candidates, it's very odd that Obama won so big.
Hillary's manners are terrible, interrupting and demanding time. Neither she nor BO copped to previous debate gaffes. And she played the female sex card and in a subtle way, BO played the black card - CHANGE from man to woman, white to black. Not good to do that IMO.
What is with all this signing of pledges deal? Weren't people asked to sign pledges to caucus for clinton? It's outrageous.
Perhaps people need to be reminded that they pledged an oath to protect the Constitution.
When do you spose Pelosi and Reid will wake up? Will this do it? How long has this been going on w/o our knowing? Infiltrator, my a$$.
BBC NEWS | Middle East | Iraqi soldier 'killed US troops'A militant "infiltrator" in the Iraqi army deliberately shot dead two US soldiers during a joint patrol, officials say.
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Barack Obama's speech following his Iowa caucus victory has been described as inspirational. The reaction seems much more a measure of how desperate many people are for inspiration than of any inherent value in Obama's oratory, which seemed to me to be a largely substance-free exercise in exceptionalism.
Obama used the word "change" six times, and "hope", 11. He described his victory as singular, something upon which people would look back years from now and remember as "the moment when it all began", "the moment ... when we rallied people of all parties and ages to a common cause", "the moment when we finally beat back the policies of fear and doubts and cynicism". He said his supporters "came together as Democrats, Republicans and independents*, to stand up and say that we are one nation. We are one people. And our time for change has come."
But hope is not a plan; it's a thing with feathers. And change is guaranteed, assuming there's an election.
» article continues...This is so discouraging. How could clinton come outta tonight beating Edwards? It makes no sense. What is going on with these early voters. Clinton over Edwards? Pathetic.
FLASH: RASMUSSEN New Hampshire Poll: Obama 37% Clinton 27%... MORE...
What's with all this "loyalty" and "pledge" garbage coming from Democrats all over the place? The Dem Party is looking more and more like the GOP every day. But then, they too often govern like them, so why not act like them?
How could clinton come outta tonight beating Edwards? It makes no sense. What is going on with these early voters. Clinton over Edwards? Pathetic.
It's probably because Edwards has the same record as Clinton, but not the same machine.
That poll is from before the debate. The next one will reveal the results of the debate. Given the voters concerns Edwards will do fine as ex-Hillary supporters look for a new home.
sitka is in the strange position of having to hope for an Edwards win somewhere or Iowa will be first again in four years
In Iowa you just have to attest that you are a Democrat, there is no loyalty oath.
sitka is in the strange position of having to hope for an Edwards win somewhere or Iowa will be first again in four years
My low opinion of the Iowa caucuses and of the entire primary system are not dependent upon the outcome in this season.
and you will be griping about it again in four years
did anyone listen to the repub debate? imo it should be a NO-BRAINER to support the dem nominee. but some folks apparently feel another 4 to 8 years of the same assault on our country would be preferable to certain dems. probably voted for Nader last time too, huh? duh! petty bs.
I dont want another dlc tool like Hillary or Richardson but they are highly preferable to any of the repugs. if we continue to supply our gov't with good grassroot progressives the dlc'ers will continue to lose their power base.
Hillary did not 'win' the debate but of course her spinmeisters, her MACHINE will say otherwise. looking at the polls the voters in NH and the folks who trade on this contest disagree. Hillary lost 10 points on intrade last night and Obama gained 9 - it's now 55 to 41...
probably voted for Nader last time too, huh? duh! petty bs.
Nope. Voted for Gore and Kerry. Can't say who I'll vote for this time, but my mind is more open than ever.
If Democrats want my vote they'll need to govern and campaign as Democrats all the way to the wire. It hasn't made more than a cosmetic difference having them in control of Congress so far, so I might as well shop around for other candidates to give my vote to.
I dont want another dlc tool like Hillary or Richardson but they are highly preferable to any of the repugs
Over the past couple of decades, the cumulative effect of voting for the lesser of evils has been greater evil.
I thought both BO and HC were less than stellar tonight. And a tire as they all were, JE reached deep down and found his passion again.
I do like Obama a lot but my take is that people like him the way they would like a new and novel rare pet. This is not to demean him in any way, but I do think that he draws the mental types as well as the people who like shiny new things. I can see why intellectuals would vote for him and I can also see why people who know little to nothing about what's really going on would vote for him. He has broad appeal. Unfortunately, the article I posted above is almost completely spot on. That speech was arrogant. He is not the beginning or the end. That attitutude belongs to Hillary. :-)
Edwards, OTOH, appeals to people who use both left and right brain well and are emotionally intelligent and willing to forgive and move out of the past. Edwards has humility which is totally lacking in Hillary and is on its way to being lacking in Obama.
The question then becomes: who do you trust? For me it's
1.Gore
2. Dodd
3. Edwards
Disclaimer: These are gen'l statements; late night thoughts.
And.....I have to wonder if I could cast a vote for BO. I wonder becuz that nagging feeling is that it could be a Clinton/Obama fixed ticket. In that case, I don't have to wonder.
Attention NH. Before you cast your first and second choices for BO and HC, think about what I just wrote....you know, about the HC/BO ticket you'd be forced to vote for.
Please re-consider. In your enthusiasm for BO, you may be stuck with voting for HC in the gen'l and then losing. Don't throw John Edwards away.
THINK, PEOPLE, PLEASE. Don't be sheeple and follow in IA's footsteps which I think we'll come to see as horrible missteps.
Make me eat my words.
If JE comes in third, will he move on? If so, I'll send more money.
Edwards, OTOH, appeals to people who use both left and right brain well and are emotionally intelligent and willing to forgive and move out of the past.
I think he appeals to people who close both left and right eyes and ignore his record.
It's amazing what people can overlook when they WANT to believe.
Over the past couple of decades, the cumulative effect of voting for the lesser of evils has been greater evil.
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John Edwards would agree with that assessment to a point. Cooperation cannot be allowed to become complicity. The current system is broken and needs a a major overhaul where the will of the people is re-instated
I'm rooting for Obama to finish off Clinton as a machine in New Hampshire so it can be about the future
Clinton mught even recover if it wasn't about her (expereience)but about where she wants to take America.
John Edwards wants an America free of the grip of inside special interests lining their pockets as they destroy the middle class and ignore completely anyone too tired to vote.
A blogger who's plugged into New York politics notes:
"Many in the blogsphere (Jewish or otherwise) are giddy today about Saint Rudy saying Israel should be in NATO. Did not John Edwards say it more directly, at the Herziliya conference last January?"
I'd forgotten -- but yes. Here's the January 22 Edwards quote:
"We should be finding ways to upgrade Israel's relationship with NATO. This could even some day mean membership. NATO's mission now goes far beyond just Europe. Therefore, it is only natural that NATO seeks to include Israel."
With all respect Sitka, it's not wanting to believe. He's far from my first choice, but somewhere along the way, we have to choose, trust, forgive and move on. He recanted and that's more than HC did.
Read what I said about a HC/BO ticket. What a fine mess we'd be in then. The way to stop that is to keep Edwards in the race and that's what I'm trying to do by sending money and posting.
An Obama/Edwards or Edwards/Obama ticket is one I could get behind.....but Clinton/Obama? Doubtful.
Actually, I hope NH does follow in the footsteps of IA and vote JE and BO first and second.
As usual, JE is getting very little press and it's a *2 man race* meaning HC is a man. LOL
I am proud to present to you Senator John Edwards.
Senator John Edwards:
It’s a great privilege for me to be able to participate in this conference which has played an important role in bringing people together from all walks of life. The Herzliya Conference is a great forum for what is happening in Israel.
I am aware that it was at this conference that PM Ariel Sharon gave his courageous speech outlining his disengagement. He helped Israel face some of its major challenges.
Throughout his career and public service Sharon has shown courage, including his historic decision to evacuate Gaza. More than anyone else, Sharon has, in my judgment, believed that a strong Israel is a safe Israel and that Israel needs to defend itself against security threats.......
The challenges in your own backyard – rise of Islamic radicalism, use of terrorism, and the spread of nuclear technology and weapons of mass destruction – represent an unprecedented threat to the world and Israel.
At the top of these threats is Iran. Iran threatens the security of Israel and the entire world. Let me be clear: Under no circumstances can Iran be allowed to have nuclear weapons. For years, the US hasn’t done enough to deal with what I have seen as a threat from Iran. As my country stayed on the sidelines, these problems got worse. To a large extent, the US abdicated its responsibility to the Europeans. This was a mistake. The Iranian president’s statements such as his description of the Holocaust as a myth and his goals to wipe Israel off the map indicate that Iran is serious about its threats.
Once Iran goes nuclear, other countries in the Middle East will go nuclear, making Israel’s neighborhood much more volatile.
Iran must know that the world won’t back down. The recent UN resolution ordering Iran to halt the enrichment of uranium was not enough. We need meaningful political and economic sanctions. We have muddled along for far too long. To ensure that Iran never gets nuclear weapons, we need to keep ALL options on the table, Let me reiterate – ALL options must remain on the table.
seashell
you sell Obama short
he is a good listener and he has a good heart, the part of his speech that makes this an "historic" election makes if too much about him, and he will lose that direction or he will lose the primary.
John Edwards most powerful line is
"This is not about me. Elizabeth and I will do fine."
"You have the power." lives
somewhere along the way, we have to choose, trust, forgive and move on.
Somewhere along the way we have to hold politicians accountable for what they do. Forgiveness is a noble quality, but not when you're played for a sucker over and again.
There is no democrat who will NOT support AIPAC and Israel, even if it hurts America. We're stuck with that for now, horrible as it is.
None of them are, IMO, the best choices. But I didn't get a chance to voice my opinion, did I?
Gore, Dodd, Kucinich, Edwards...those are my choices. effing system!
Gore, Dodd, Kucinich, Edwards...those are my choices. effing system!
I merely point out that by selling Edwards you sell what you don't really seem to believe in.
It's one thing to vote for who we see as the lesser evil. It's another to put lipstick on the least ugly pig.
Phil, perhaps so and I could vote for him...but with HC as prez? Not a good thought at all.
Sitka, I could go retrieve almost the same speech made by HC and BO at AIPAC. We know all this. That's why I wanted Gore or Dean so much.
And no, I worked and voted for Kerry, knowing he'd lose.
I'm just tired of all this crap and losers and lesser of two evils and losing our Constitution. Did any of the dems even mention the Constitution tonight?
HC/BO....the dems are great at putting us in a Catch-22. I wonder if JE would take VP slot. Phil, what do you think?
my first prediction was "No one will win Iowa who voted for the war."
my other was "No one will win the Democratic Party nomination who is not a friend of Israel."
and since they all are that; we can put that argument to rest
John Edwards most powerful line is
"This is not about me. Elizabeth and I will do fine."
Your record speaks for itself. Don't do us any more favors, Edwards.
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and since they all are that; we can put that argument to rest
It isn't a sticking point with me. But those who promote Edwards should at least know the whole truth about him and then overlook it if they can.
Sitka, I hear you and see your point. I've decided that I could live with JE as prez.
To not vote is a horrible thought. To vote for a HC/BO ticket is just as horrible.
So I guess I'll have to find another country. LOL
So I'm hoping that Ms. Clinton comes in third again. Or that if BO gets the nod, he chooses Dean as running mate.
I think it unwise to scratch Hillary. She has nine lives.
I wonder if JE would take VP slot.
Of course he would. But nobody will be dumb enough to offer it again since he delivered nothing for Kerry.
I've decided that I could live with JE as prez.
I could live with it too. But that's a far cry from promoting him over someone with the same record and another with a better one.
As an elected official inside the Democratic Party and under the rules of the California Democratic Party. I can not publicly support or endorse a candidate for political office who is not the elected Democratic nominee unless the Democratic Party doesn't have one. Further more there is no rule that says I must publicly support them nor is there any rule that says I must vote for them or that I must vote at all. Voting in California is done by a secret ballot. There is also no law that states all US citizens must register to vote and must vote to maintain their citizenship. Nor is there any law in California that states when you choose to register to vote that you must claim a political party and if you do claim a politcial party that you must only vote for it's candidates.
Sitka, I've known about that JE speech for ages and that's why I was so reluctant. The reality is that dems don't get elected w/o signing pledges of support for Israel....literally.
My nightmare is that many of us will be forced to vote for HC just to protect what's left of the SC and to defeat McCain/ Huckabee. But I think she's lose. Where are the polls showing her losing to McCain/Huckabee/flat/scorched-earth people?
So my late night question for Obama supporters is this: Will you vote for a HC/BO ticket? If we end up with such a ticket, people will rue the day they didn't run full speed to vote for Dodd or at the very least, Edwards. We need to think ahead. If it becomes a BO/HC race, she'll steal it. That's the plan.
Gotta go to bed rather than write about this nightmare.
Edwards needs the place at least second to whoop her fanny.
Sitka, I've known about that JE speech for ages and that's why I was so reluctant. The reality is that dems don't get elected w/o signing pledges of support for Israel....literally
How brown do you think Edwards' nose was with all that praise for Sharon and threats to Iran?
And calling for Israel to be in NATO (and dragging NATO into every Israeli aggression) is a lot more than kneeling and kissing AIPAC's ring.
Edwards needs the place at least second to whoop her fanny.
Edwards in second is fine with me. In fact, being #2 seems to be what he was born for.
Ok, Sitka, of the *top* 3, I see JE as the lesser of evils. Happy now? :-)
And I do love his corporations schtick. Off with their heads. All of them...LOL
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Ok, Sitka, of the *top* 3, I see JE as the lesser of evils. Happy now? :-)
I already figured that out. If you sell him as that only you'll get no further response from me on it.
When Mr. Kucinich did not sign that "loyalty oath" to the Texas Democratic Party he was protecting the U.S. Constitution. Which speaks to the moral character and the honesty of his person. The Democratic Party of Texas and it's present Chair needs to read the U.S. Constitution. Mr. Kucinich will win in court and he will also win in the court of public opinion.
What Momentum did in CT was legal but being legal doesn't make it fair or moral. That choice also speaks to the character of his person and the morality of the political philosophy and practices of the "Third Way" (centrism).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Way_%...
Voting is a sacred act. Running for political office is not. Politicians and their political operatives lie to voters and the media all the time to win elections. It is a very common practice. They even threaten voters into voting and giving them money by using rhetoric which induces fear and false hopes for a better future. They will say just about anything to get elected and once they do what they want. They even gerrymandered the whole country under a Democratic Congress so they could continue to do what they and their corporate sponsors want and to ensure their next elections. The third way philosophy does not encourage grassroots participation or new voter registration. It doesn't allow for the building of a democracy of participation. The "Emerging Democratic Majority" is one of the most disgusting and blasphemous books to our Democracy that I have ever read. http://www.amazon.com/Emerging-Democrati...
sea, what in the world would leave you to believe, at this point, that Edwards could whoop Hill's fanny but if we support Obama it will be a Hillary/Obama ticket? your dislike for Obama is affecting your judgement. the grassroots have Obama's back, in cse you haven't noticed - his support is broader and deeper than Howard's was, as a matter of fact. Hillary will not steal this one. the people won't let her - they've gotten wise to her and her dlc crowd and are rejecting it as we speak.
Good morning, everybody
I guess I'm just not a TV person. Didn't stay up for last night's event either.
This video is telling
16. People who don't want to make choices or think for themselves (because they're afraid to make a mistake) do not feel that they have been assaulted. They feel that, if they haven't been a victim of crime, they've been protected. That's the beauty of setting up a hypothetical threat. Its efficacy depends on nothing happening.
21. There are no second choices in NH, sea. It's an election. We only get to vote for one OUT OF FIFTEEN, btw. Yes, there are fifteen names on the NH ballot and you can do a write-in. There are reports that the people who have been promoting a Gore write-in are thinking of endorsing someone on the ballot. The spouse is going with AlGorythm. LOL That's what he's telling the campaign callers.
Good morning again, BFA!
Love *AlGorythm,* Monica!
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Here's one view from Over Here.
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Wounded Clinton takes fight to New Hampshire
Barack Obama is mobbed as the battle moves on from Iowa, while the former Democrat frontrunner battles for her political life. Meanwhile the Republican race is in turmoil. Paul Harris reports from Concord
Paul Harris
Sunday January 6, 2008
Observer
The New Hampshire Democratic Party's 100 Club dinner is a staid affair, attracting the main candidates as speakers in an act of shameless fundraising. But on Friday night extraordinary scenes unfolded there that captured the mood of a party suddenly filled with the desire to kick out its old guard.
Barack Obama was so mobbed by supporters that a security announcer begged people surging towards the stage to retake their seats. Many were chanting Obama's new signature slogan: 'Fired up! Let's go!'
In stark contrast, Hillary Clinton had been booed twice. The first time when she seemed to borrow from Obama's main theme of 'change'. The second was when she made a veiled reference to her greater experience. 'Who will be ready to lead from day one?' she asked the 3,000-strong crowd. But she was forced to pause to let the resulting boos die down. A few weeks ago, such a spectacle would have been unthinkable.
For Clinton, who has long sought an aura of inevitable victory, it was a defining moment of how much the political landscape has now changed. She is facing the battle of her life in New Hampshire to rescue something from the wreckage of her life-long presidential ambitions.
It is not going to be pretty. Her only chance is to come out swinging in New Hampshire, wresting a comeback victory in the state where her husband first made his name. Campaign aides are already signalling that they are going to go negative on Obama. The only question is how negative.
But it is not just Democrats gearing up for a bloody political scrap in the icy woods and hills of New Hampshire. Obama's win was seen as a voter plea for change, a cry echoed in full in the Republican contest. Iowa's Republicans resoundingly rejected the big money establishment candidacy of ex-Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney. Instead, they elected Mike Huckabee, a little-known religious conservative who ran a grassroots effort on a shoestring budget. It is not a coincidence that Obama and Huckabee are the two youngest candidates.
The fact is that change is in the air in America. In Iowa both parties saw their own political machines given a bloody nose by the voters. Insurgent candidates rode to victory over the bodies of mainstream favourites and insiders. But the thing about establishments is that they do not go away quietly. Now that the dust has settled the battle lines are being drawn for round two. The fight is just beginning.
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http://observer.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,...
V. interesting literary tidbit ... it is amazing how such personal histories have survived. But the fact is that they have.
For a long time, we had Riverbend to chronicle events under US-occupied Iraq. But I have not found anything from her later than October 22, 2007, after she escaped to Syria with her family. I did find one note on another blog that her family's visa in Syria was renewed for two months, but I have no idea where that information came from.
I wonder how many Iraqis are keeping journals in the old-fashioned way, i.e., on paper.
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France finds its own Anne Frank as young Jewish woman's war diary hits the shelves
Jason Burke in Paris
Sunday January 6, 2008
Observer
It starts like any other young woman's diary - with a description of hobbies, a first boyfriend, schoolmates and trips to the country - but it ends like few others. The final words are 'the horror, the horror, the horror'.
This week The Journal of Helene Berr will arrive in French bookshops. The harrowing story of a young Jewish girl in occupied Paris, will be, according to the newspaper Liberation, 'the publishing sensation of 2008'. Two years ago, an account by another French Jewish writer, Irene Nemirovsky, who died in Auschwitz, sold hundreds of thousands of copies and sparked a fierce debate.
With her family, Berr, died in the concentration camps, among the 70,000 Jews deported from France in the Second World War, often with the help of the French police or officials.
'We thought everything had already been said on the Jews under the German Occupation,' said Michel Lafitte, a French historian who described the journal as 'incredibly rich'.
Berr, already being dubbed 'France's Anne Frank', is very different from both her Dutch counterpart and Nemirovsky. Her manuscript lay untouched for 50 years before being discovered by archivists from France's Holocaust Museum.
She was 21 when she started her diary in 1942 - only a few weeks before Nemirovsky died. Cultivated, steeped in Russian and English literature, from a wealthy old French family and a keen violinist who attended the Sorbonne University, Berr starts her diary with an account of picking up a signed copy of the works of poet Paul Valery from his home.
The early pages of the diary are full of descriptions of the countryside around Paris - 'I went to gather fruit in the upper orchard ... the blue sky and the sun made the dew drops sparkle and joy flooded through me like a spell', she writes.
'She is barely aware of her Jewish identity, the war has barely touched her and she is largely unaware of what is happening elsewhere in Europe,' said the book's editor, Antoine Sabbagh. 'She is in love for the first time. But then things start to change. The book reads like a novel, but with a terribly sad end.'
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http://observer.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,...
Things are simmering along in Kenya and lots of work is going on behind the scenes. I truly hope that it bears fruit.
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Seeds of genocide were sown a decade ago by Moi
Sam Kiley
Sunday January 6, 2008
Observer
Roads are blocked with trees, lamp-posts and burning tyres. Young men drunk on booze and blood, armed with Iron Age weapons, paraffin and matches scrutinise ID books to select victims for tribal murder.
That was the scene in Kenya last week. It has happened before, not just in Rwanda but a decade ago in Kenya. And there is very little time to act before Kenya's tribal tensions explode into more widespread massacres. It is no surprise, or accident, that up to 50 Kikuyu were murdered in the western city of Eldoret last week in revenge for alleged rigging of the elections by the Kikuyu President Mwai Kibaki over Christmas.
His predecessor Daniel arap Moi, a Kalenjin, allowed Kalenjin warriors, who dominate the region around Eldoret, to conduct a pogrom against the Kikuyu in 1991-92 and again in 1999-98. It was the Kalenjin who torched terrified men, women and children seeking sanctuary in Eldoret last week.
In 1992, 1,500 Kikuyu or 'non-indigenous' people were slaughtered in the Rift Valley east of Eldoret by Kalenjin and Masai moran, or warriors, armed with pangas. Many were hunted down like animals with bows and arrows in the woodland and farms around Nakuru, the provincial capital. An estimated 300,000 fled their homes. Back then their 'crime' had been to vote for the opposition parties against Moi's Kenya African National Union (Kanu).
There were no arrests, no proper inquiries, and very little publicity for these atrocities - most foreign correspondents were too busy cataloguing the larger horrors of Congo and Rwanda. But the seeds of the genocide that engulfed the Great Lakes of central Africa were sown by Moi in Kenya. Until now they lay dormant, but in fertile ground.
Kenya is the most stable and economically successful state in the region. It has been the base for international emergency relief operations to Somalia, Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Burundi and Sudan for decades.
But it is no less riven by ethnic hatred than any of its neighbours. Put crudely, very few Kenyan tribes get along well with one another - and almost all hate the Kikuyu. The Kikuyu are the biggest tribe, with 42 different ethnic groups, and make up about a fifth of the population. They fought the British in the Mau Mau uprising that led to independence in 1963. Led by President Jomo Kenyatta until his death in 1978, the Kikuyu did well out of freedom, the other tribes less so.
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http://observer.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,...
Helene Berr's diary brought reminiscences of our visit to Amsterdam in 2000, where we also visited the Anne Frank house there. I believe that, until one actually sees it, one does not realize how much their was an integral part of the city ... with the street, canal and everyday life being literally yards away.
One realizes then in a non-academic situation how real the horror was, how amazing that they lasted there so long without discovery, and how courageous all were, not least those non-Jewish Dutch friends and employees who risked their lives on a daily basis, maintaining a pretence of normality in an aberrational world, to keep the Franks provisioned and safe.
Helene Berr was at least able to lead her life in the open ... until she wasn't.
The horror is certainly no less.
omitted *house* after *their above ... sorry about that
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Momentum s/b Joementum
They will say just about anything to get elected and once they do what they want. s/b They will say just about anything to get elected and once they do, they do what they want.
Speaking of diaries under traumatic situations, here are extracts of one from Kenya.
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'Two years of hard work up in smoke in minutes'
Sunday January 6, 2008
Observer
Alison Rogers, 42, a British teacher, and her Kenyan husband, Steve,
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By Susan Rowe on Jan 5, 2008 4:53 PMI will not sign this pledge from the DNC either.
http://www.democrats.org/GetUnited
It's insulting to anybody who is honest and has a mind of their own. The Democratic Party is not a cult.
This pledge is un-Amercian. My primary is February. Why should I bother to go a vote at all.
This cartoon below has been on our refrigerator since 2004 when I clipped it out of the Fresno Bee. It's a reminder of what the Democratic Party must never be allowed to become again.
DNC Convention 2004 Democratic Unity
http://www.kirktoons.com/july_2004/Image...
Yellow dog Democrats aka yaller dogs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_dog_...
Now the Yellow Dogs Democrats are all cowards as far as I'm concerned.
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http://www.commondreams.org/news2004/072...
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* Direction of Democrats * Money at Conventions * Peace Voices Squelched * 9-11 Families March
...VINCENT LAVERY
Currently in Boston, Lavery is a delegate from Fresno, Calif. He had a "No War" sign taken from him by convention organizers as he entered the convention hall and was handed a Kerry sign. Lavery said today: "How ridiculous, it's like we're robots, we're given signs to wave on cue. They take all signs people bring in. The convention is very controlled." ...
Two Gags at the Dem. Convention
By Matthew Rothschild
full story: http://www.progressive.org/mag_mcdemcon