First of all L'Shana Tova / a Happy New Year (5780) to everybody, especially to the beleaguered President Trump, His First Lady & the White House Family!
If wishes were horses
then Warren would fly
at which point Trump
could cry a tearful cry
No American prophet, seer or prognosticator am I, maybe that's why I take everything that Professor Kenneth Harrow has to say, seriously, until his last hope-filled pitch about Trump's Lady Pocahontas which comes as an anti-climax to reality:
"when the dems have a candidate, and if she runs a strong campaign (i am hoping it is warren), there's every chance she can pull it off."
The pundits say that the fallout from this impeachment frenzy is going to energise Trump's base. and even make a martyr out of him (I suppose that American presidents ask others for all kinds of favours – I wouldn't judge that if Brother Buhari requested some help from Trump or from the CIA or the FBI to investigate and repatriate some looted funds, he should be impeached - or charged with treason)
Since Sleepy ol' Joe Biden is going to emerge from this whistle-blower thing much more damaged than Trump (all that Ukraine money corruption) and since it will not be easy to sell Bernie as a Commie, then it's gotta be somebody else for the Dems...
Fact is, whether we like it or not, the United States is not yet psychologically ready for Elizabeth Warren as the next potus and America's First Female President.
What she has going for herself is that thank goodness she is not at all like Trump's "Crooked Hillary "or like her husband, Slick Willy who was impeached for a thing like that - and that's a big plus.
As a good American mother figure the Negroes in Detroit could vote for Elizabeth Warren and the Negroes in Georgia too, even if they would much prefer someone like Big Mama Stacey Abrams. I say "good mother figure" mindful of Brother Ishmael Reed's portrait of "Lyin Hillary" in his Ma and Pa Clinton Flog Uppity Black Man.
Otherwise, from this distance Elisabeth Warren strikes me as being too gentle Jesus, meek and mild for the Oval Office. She might be sincerely soft on guns (that the mentally ill should not have any - but that's as far as she can hope to go in dispossessing her fellow Americans of the 2nd Amendment right to bear arms...)
In the fights that Trump has started, to downsize unemployment, to better the battered American economy, the trade war with China, compelling other NATO members into paying a more equitable share of the costs of running that Alliance and in the interests of assuring a more sustainable future peace in the always volatile Middle East, instead of merely kicking the can further down the road, (it's possible that it's Benjamin Netanyahu on his back and riding him and the Republican Party ever since Netanyahu's address to the US Congress during Obama's tenancy at the White House) but Israel is and continues to be the US's most reliable, rock-steady ally in that Middle East and it's Trump that at least sees the necessity that for some time to come (all future-time?) it should be better that Iran is not in a position to continue to threaten either Israel or the oil fields of Saudi Arabia or in a position to dominate the Middle East by surreptitiously or otherwise becoming a nuclear power - if that is preventable by a re-negotiating of a nuclear deal that can be re-negotiated without causing any pain to anybody – instead of letting things slide too far, until one fine day Nuclear Iran says " Voila!" - and then we have Iran's new supreme leader in a position similar to that of Kim Jong-un test-firing ballistic missiles over Saudi Arabia into the Red Sea and over Israel into the Mediterranean Sea, and one day over the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, foaming at their mouths and fanatically chanting after the Friday Jummah prayers in Tehran, "Allahu Akbar ! Yes, we can !"
(Of course the Mullahs say that they trust and depend on Allah only and don't need nuclear weapons, that nuclear weapons are against Islam, but assuredly not against the pious Shia doctrines of taqiyya and kitman)
In the meantime, just like Tunji Olaopa, both the pious and not so pious Pan-Africans (the impious) must be expressing profound concerns (mostly economic) and asking, what about Trump's "shithole countries"?
Of relevance: How did such countries fare under Brother Obama during whose tenure AFRICOM flourished as never before, in Africa.
Well, the three wise men said that God helps those who help themselves.
Hillel the Elder asked, "If I am not for myself, who is for me? And being for my own self, what am 'I'? And if not now, when?"
In my view a much more important question concerns the future of China in Africa…
The John Coltrane Quartet – Africa / Brass
On Tuesday, 1 October 2019 06:48:05 UTC+2, Kenneth Harrow wrote:
i can't really agree. his favorable rate, according to 538, is 42%; unfavorable is 54%. hasn't changed in many months. economy booming for some; jobs for some; artificial stimulus, thanks too enormous borrowing that congress allowed, creates only temporary cash flow that opens stimulus. he is desperate to force the fed reserve to lower rates, but can't make them.will the impeachment work against or for him? nobody has a clue.but no president has been sooo hated in my lifetime (since Ike). i'm from michigan, one of the three states that gave him the election, and he won here by 10,000 votes. a pittance.i would not bet that he'd win here again. no one would. the black vote in detroit is sure to turn out this time to defeat him.
all of which is to say, i can't agree that any prognosticator can state with any assurance that this is over. when the dems have a candidate, and if she runs a strong campaign (i am hoping it is warren), there's every chance she can pull it off.i hope....ken
kenneth harrow
professor emeritus
dept of english
michigan state university
517 803-8839
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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: What If Trump wins a second term? » Opinions » Tribune OnlineTrump is playing chess, his opponents are playing checkers.
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On Sep 30, 2019, at 2:29 PM, Chimalum Nwankwo <chimalu...@gmail.com> wrote:
--Oh my God !!! My dear friend. Do you mean that you cannot see that he is going to be re-elected ? The economy is booming. The jobs index is at its most favorable level in years. His entire Republican base and conservative Americans are singing Amen from all corners. America's enemies are afraid or nervous about what the Donald will do next. Worst of all for those who do not like Trump, the Democrats do not quite know what to do !!! Instead of dissecting all Trump's moves as incisively as possible and offering voting Americans more credible and potent alternatives, the Democrats are waiting for magic and wizardry, an impeachment wand, and possibly an army of unicorns sliding down from the North pole with Santa Claus and a choir of angels powered by the most lilting saxophones of Kenny G, and the mellifluous and soporific melody of Yanni to coax all and sundry into believing that the Donald is evil, and no good for America and the world...
--On Sun, Sep 29, 2019 at 11:31 PM Nuhamin Bekalu <nuha...@gmail.com> wrote:
The article does a great job summarizing and predicting Donald Trump's international involvement as president of the United States. If Trump is seen to win a second term, this would increase the chances of nationalism and isolationism for the United States. Trump's characteristics will weaken foreign trade and international relationships. The United States would be at a substantial loss with its foreign relations if Trump becomes selected for a second term.--
On Sunday, September 29, 2019 at 5:09:15 AM UTC-4, Tunji Olaopa wrote:
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