| Nov 5, 2008 @ 12:27 AM |
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Angel54214
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Obama's Kenyan relatives cheer win
KOGELO, Kenya – Barack Obama's Kenyan family erupted in cheers Wednesday, singing "we are going to the White House!" as Obama became the first African-American elected president.
In the western village of Kogelo, where the Democratic candidate's late father was born, police had tightened security to prevent hordes of media and onlookers from entering the rural homestead of Obama's step-grandmother, Sarah.
But the elderly woman and several other relatives came outside Wednesday to cheer for Obama in a country where the Democrat is seen as a "son of the soil."
Across Africa — where Obama is wildly popular — people stayed up all night or woke before dawn Wednesday to watch the U.S. election results roll in. In the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, people chanted "Obama! Obama!" as the results were announced on television.
"He's in!" said Rachel Ndimu, 23, a business student who joined hundreds of others at the residence of the U.S. ambassador for an election party that began at 5 a.m. "I think this is awesome, and the whole world is backing him."
Many hope an Obama presidency will help this vast continent, the poorest in the world. Some are looking for more U.S. aid to Africa, others simply bask in the glory of a successful black politician with African roots.
Obama was born in Hawaii, where he spent most of his childhood reared by his mother, a white American from Kansas. He barely knew his late father. But that has not stopped "Obamamania" from sweeping the continent and particularly Kenya, where his picture adorns billboards and minibuses.
Hundreds of chanting people marched through the streets of Kibera shantytown, one of Africa's largest slums, cheering Obama's win.
Samuel Ouma, 36, said the victory alleviated some of the pain suffered in December after Kenya's disastrous presidential election, which unleashed weeks of violence.
"We finally have got the stolen election," he said.
Gibson Gaitho, 14, said he does not believe an Obama presidency will change his life much but said he is inspired by the rise of a man with Kenyan roots. His teachers at Mangu High School in Thika brought the students to watch the results at the ambassador's residence in Nairobi.
"As Kenyans we feel proud," he said. "But we know Obama will be working for the United States." http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/af_kenya_obama
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| Nov 5, 2008 @ 12:32 AM |
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burnslikethesun
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Maybe, for whats good for America has a trickle down effect for the world.
Kind of like happened with our economics under the republican control.
Just in reverse. 
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| Nov 5, 2008 @ 12:37 AM |
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Always_Striving
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I hope that this president will not toil around with foreign affairs (like the last one elected did) and start caring about the citizens of our own country. Address our domestic needs for once instead of those financial war venture groups like Haliburton, as an example.
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| Nov 5, 2008 @ 12:46 AM |
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willsmalto
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He's president-elect of USA, not Africa
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| Nov 5, 2008 @ 9:00 AM |
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tatiana329
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Time will tell....
I have heard of and seen some white americans retire in certain parts
( dont know where but I can look into it if the situation deems looking into more), where there is ocean and low cost of living... into beautiful homes...
I would be open to moving to Africa to retire should Ophra and Obama.. the TWO o"s...
make it a good $$$ option for me.. I would love to live on the ocean.
Besides that, many african languages have few letters and easy to learn so I can go to market and buy food to go with my seafood :)
I'm open to moving anywhere the cost of living and life would be good.
I can work with it.
[Edited on 11/5/2008 9:08 AM]
[Edited on 11/5/2008 9:09 AM]
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| Nov 5, 2008 @ 9:06 AM |
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DeputyWitch
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I thought it was Oprah's job to bail out Africa... 
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| Nov 5, 2008 @ 9:11 AM |
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tatiana329
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Ophras money... Obamas fame...
they should team up... they could rule the world you know.
My hope is they fix the stock market FIRST... once I get my money out of it... I can better deal with anything they may throw out there.
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| Nov 5, 2008 @ 9:14 AM |
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SweetNapaGuy
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Here's an idea. Let the poor slob have a chance to get his butt seated in the Oval Office and put in place a few policies before we start condemning him?
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| Nov 5, 2008 @ 9:26 AM |
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Nightowl001
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Shoot, SNG. People have spent months berating him for things he isn't and things he didn't say. Why should they wait for any valid reasons to criticize him now, just because he won the election?
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| Nov 5, 2008 @ 9:30 AM |
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DeputyWitch
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Here's an idea. Let the poor slob have a chance to get his butt seated in the Oval Office and put in place a few policies before we start condemning him?
I hear Joe the Plumber is there as we speak installing yellow buttons in all the toilets.
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| Nov 5, 2008 @ 9:32 AM |
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tatiana329
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You should look at african real estate and the option and perks of retiring there before you decide it's bad.... africa has so much cheap ocean front property....
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| Nov 5, 2008 @ 9:38 AM |
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Loreli
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And, if McCain would have won....there would have been mistakes and unfavorable choices....they all have done it.
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| Nov 5, 2008 @ 9:48 AM |
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SweetNapaGuy
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If McCain had won, he would have pushed for the permanent removal of a woman's right to vote. He would have started WW3. He would have outlawed the use of silly putty. He would have terrified the nation by going around kicking puppies.
Boy, we sure dodged a bullet there...
(And to the small-minded neo-cons with no sense of humor, who wouldn't get a joke even if it were accompanied by 30 emoticons, yes, this is an exaggeration. It's meant as humor. It's not meant to be taken seriously. Get the stick out of your rear end. This, of course doesn't apply to any neo-cons with brains enough to follow along...)
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| Nov 5, 2008 @ 9:58 AM |
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eastham
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From Chapter 9 of the book Irish America:
Oddly enough, it was the Irish in County Wexford and elsewhere in Ireland who regarded Kennedy as their son, especially after his visit to Ireland in August of 1963. He addressed the Irish parliament (or Dial) as a visiting chief of a foreign country; but most Irishmen in Ireland simply saw him as an immigrant's grandson who had made good. For his part, Kennedy was captured by an Irish ethnicity long dormant during the years after his family's immigration to Boston. So thoroughly did the Kennedy family seek to become Americanized that all strains of Irish heritage seem to have been lost. The only Irish loyalty John Kennedy appears to have cherished was that derived from his Irish advisors, all of whom had been in this country for several generations. Thus, when Kennedy went to Ireland, felt the spirit of the place and recalled the romance of the people, he did what so many latter day Irish Americans who visit Ireland do. He began to go back to the Famine, to reconstruct the history of his family and to learn just how far his family had come from the poverty that caused it to leave Ireland in the 1850's. Whether for ill or good, John Kennedy was much more aware of his Irish background just before he was killed than at any other time in his life. And to all of this the American Irish, and the Cleveland Irish in particular, hardly knew how to respond.
In the 1950's and 1960's, Kennedy's religion and ethnicity were an affront to the Brahmin establishment. But Kennedy was no ordinary Irishman. He never attended parochial school or a Catholic University. He went to Choate and Harvard -- he beat the Brahmin at their own game, which for some was unforgiveable.
Funny how things change so greatly and so little.
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| Nov 5, 2008 @ 10:03 AM |
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DeputyWitch
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Eatham, are you saying that there is some Mossad agent somewhere cleaning his sniper as we speak?
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| Nov 5, 2008 @ 10:07 AM |
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tatiana329
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She is saying kennedy was a great man and comparing Obama to him...
you know Kennedy, the liberal who was cheating on his wife great man who never got to live out his term?
that guy. The one she sees as Irish ... an irishman...
lol
gee, when reality comes to light and this Obama the wonder in his honeymoon phase is over.. I'll sure be happy 
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| Nov 6, 2008 @ 11:28 AM |
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Gallows_Humor
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Posts: 662 Eatham, are you saying that there is some Mossad agent somewhere cleaning his sniper as we speak?
nope..only you pubs are harping on this... 
back on topic...
africa is not stable enough for anyone to want to retire there...there are better choices that are even closer...
as the world economy takes a tumble...rich american expatriates are going to become targets for ransoms...
http://www.boomersabroad.com/indexplus.htmlWhat if I don't want to leave the U.S.? If you currently live in the United States, you might want to consider simply moving to another state rather than going abroad. Things generally get much cheaper when you move away from the coasts, and the quality of life can be very good. Plus, they speak English there and you can usually get all the stuff you're probably used to. There are a number of excellent web sites to help you in your search for a place to move to. Moving.com's city profiles provide information on hundreds of cities. The profiles include cost of living, taxes, home costs, insurance costs and quality of life factors such as population, crime, weather and education. Moving.com can also help you find real estate and arrange for moving logistics. You can even compare the profiles of two cities of your choice. BestPlaces.net lets you compare two cities from a list of over 3,000 places in the U.S. You'll see a comparison of nearly 100 categories. BestPlaces offers neighborhood profiles for every zip code in the U.S., in-depth profiles on over 85,000 schools, a cost of living calculator that compares cities and determines what salary you'd need at a new location to maintain the same standard of living as you have now. Plus you'll find crime rates for over 2,500 U.S. cities, most and least stressful cities, and climate profiles for 2,000 cities worldwide. You can even take a "Find Your Best Place" quiz to determine your own recommended best places to live. BestPlaces also publishes Cities Ranked and Rated, with detailed information on over 400 metropolitan areas in the U.S. and Canada. You might also find Most Livable Communities helpful. Our favorite is FindYourSpot.com. It offers a fun quiz (it'll take you less than 10 minutes) with great questions, and it produces a list of two dozen cities that fit your quiz answers. Results for each city include an attractive downloadable four-page report with an insightful overview of the character of the area and information on climate, arts and culture, recreation, education, housing and cost of living, crime and safety, health care, and earning a living. You'll also find links to currently available jobs and housing, roommate services, recommended city-specific books, and travel deals if you'd like to personally visit the city.
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| Nov 6, 2008 @ 11:30 AM |
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Loreli
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I get concerned hearing all the shooting and gun talk out of Repubs....
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| Nov 6, 2008 @ 1:04 PM |
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eastham
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Loreli,
Considering that MD goes out on all the RSS threads, you can be sure that someone in the Secret Service is checking these guys out as we speak.
And back to Africa...well at least it appears that Obama understands that Africa is a continent, which is not the case with Sarah Palin.
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| Nov 6, 2008 @ 4:02 PM |
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RightWingRepublican
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I would seriosuly cast a vote for Obama, if it was voting for him to be sent to Africa.
I'm in.
What does Africa have to do with being the President here in America?
Here we go, already starting.
Keep an eye out, you'll start seeing an increase in help Africa ads.
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