----- Original Message -----From: kenneth harrowSent: 11/2/2011 9:25:51 PMSubject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Why Would Any American African VoteFor Obama?for me, it's as simple as that. ogugua said it perfectly and simply. i am, like everyone i know on the left, bitterly disappointed in obama, disappointed in his having failed us on most of the issues for which we elected him
that said, the republicans are an incredible nightmare. never has such mass stupidity come to reign so thoroughly in the rhetoric of one party. consider this simple fact: it has become a political issue whether global warming is a scientific fact. the republican conclusion is not to consult with scientists, but with whatever business interests dictate their policies. this is true for every single issue, creating such absurdities that it is hard to believe it would be bearable to live here under their administration.
disappointment in obama doesn't go as deeply as the antipathy for almost every aspect of republicanism.
in fact, the worst we can say about obama is that in trying to compromise with them, he adopted too much of their own horrible principles.
ken
On 11/2/11 3:15 PM, Anunoby, Ogugua wrote:--To vote in an election is to choose one candidate over one or more others. Voters make this choice based on their interests and how well they believe their preferred candidate will serve their interests. A voter's challenge therefore is an optimization challenge.
If one has to choose between two strangers, the smart choice would be the less "strange" stranger? The choice between two evils should be clear. Obama may have been a disappointment. Who is to say that the alternative to him will not be worse?
oa
From: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com [mailto:usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Abdul Karim Bangura
Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2011 10:30 AM
To: USAAfricaDialogue@googlegroups.com
Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Why Would Any American African Vote For Obama?
A keen observer shared the following data with us just a few minutes ago. It made me ponder why any American African or any other naturalized American citizen would want to vote for Obama in 2012. In addition to dropping bombs, butchering, beheading and lynching Afrikan Libyans and immigrants in that country and Somalia and will soon do the same in Uganda, the Congo and the Central Afrikan Republic, his record on immigrants is dismal, despite his earlier lofty talk about immigration reform from which he has chickened out.
Deportations Under Obama
YEAR CRIMINAL TOTAL
DEPORTED
2008 114,415 369,221
2009 136,126 387,790
2010 113,453 227,103
Source: The Washington Post
Now that I have given you the stats on Obama as the most anti-immigrant president in American history, never mind that he is also the first American president to drop bombs on Africa.....
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Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Why Would Any American African VoteFor Obama?
My curiosity on this matter led me to this site:
Just a small taste of the Obama's administration deportation machinations:
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