Some people are blindly opportunistic

Some people are blindly opportunistic--that's my conclusion when McCain picked former pageant, first-season Governor of Alaska (shiver!-what a far reach...). And a mother of five too.

At her forties, she nicely dilutes the rather heavy age of McCain of 73, yeah. Gender has been thrown in to pick what they can of the Clinton die-hards.

Soon the press got to work. We started hearing about earmark funds and the infant politician mixing herself up. A bridge she had sought earmark funds to construct sometime earlier was later named by her as a bridge to nowhere ("nowhere") happens to be an island in her jurisdiction as Governoress.

B4 dust settled, there was this teen pregnancy fiasco: her 17-year-old was carrying a love-child, four months to come). Mama explained, proudly, the child's father was going to marry her daughter. The world press needed exactly that. Media from AAustralia to ZZimbabwe carried the story. GOP felt short-changed: didn't McCain Campaign not do any vetting of potential running mates?

Whatever haste to pick a woman to make use of Clinton vacuum, I just can't picture the imagination of how a mother of five is going to cope with the demanding duties of VP. Sure some are quite grown-up, but the very task of bringing those up was a heavy-duty assignment in itself. I think the voters who have to make a decision of who the commander-in-chief shall be should something happen to the old man McCain might be a bit heavy-handed. Which works well with me, because I am all for Dems to take the White House. I can see the team of Obama and Biden bringing America to new height, winding up the affairs in Iraq amicably and not poking another arms-sale gambit in Iran.

Why Clinton can't be--shouldn't be--on Obama ticket

My back-to-back sequel post on US Elections Dems Campaigns. Odds are very much out of favour for Mama Clinton who trudges on, more to cause damage to her competitor than any hope of securing nomination.

But lust for White House she has. She lied her way down the campaign path, and last week she accidentally showed her hand (praise the Lord!) In there is hope against hope that something might happen to Barack Obama. Not merely a scandal but even a bolt of lightning. Otherwise what kind of slip of tongue referring to Robert Kennedy Assassination during democratic campaigning back in 1968?

What beats me is: for all prevailing logic, White House is the last place Mama Clinton would look forward to spending more years in. Is it happy memories? What!

I'd understand if it was Obama cliffhanging, whereby we'd dismiss it by the African blood in him, we see it with African leaders, don't we.

She is a respectable senator, and has a glittering past, but now she stands to tarnish the good track record she ever wrote with her deeds both as a practising lawyer, a First Lady and a high-profile Senator.

If Dems were to even persuade Obama to pick her as a running mate, the image of the beaten would hang around her all along--akin to going to bed with conqueror.

White House '09: Democrats struggle for nomination

Just like the rest of the world, and with media shrieking about it all over the place, I just can't help taking note and making my own, personal observations.

Firstly, I, being an African born and living in East Africa, cannot hide my joy--my heart is singing with joy that Barak Obama, our very own, is commanding such respect in America. And not fluking, too. It is not racism, but admiration and fratenity.

Secondly; I can't quite place this lady who has been campaigning for Dems nomination. Yeah, she did have some chance in the beginning, but by now (May 14 2008), she seems to just hang on with her teeth in a situation she hopes something will happen to Obama (such as a scandal or even a bolt of lightning--too bad, I don't see any of that happening). So determined she is even "lending her money into campaign"--how is the campaign going to pay her back? For the lady who claims ducking live bullets in Cossovo until caught in a lie with press video.

Thirdly, again Mrs Clinton beats me: She'd been in the White House for eight years. What experience she got there wasn't all that pleasant; what with her husband being impeached for an embarrasing reason! What now, if she were to get into the WH, with a retired hubby? Abolish interns altogether in the WH?

America needs Obama, Africa needs Obama, God bless Obamas and Clintons.