Those areas of the country have historically shown that they will not vote from candidates from the North East of the USA - especially liberal candidates.

Thus - Barack’s choice. (lol)

As much as I like and respect Sen. Biden for his excellent leadership on PEPFAR and other programs to support our movement to end extreme poverty, this choice makes no ultimate political sense for a Democratic win in November the way things stand today.

My opinion - and I will stand by it. But I won’t debate or argue about it. I have more important things to do.

ALWAYS FOREVER, ONE - debbie
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This election is over. The party and Obama will pay heavily for his abysmal judgement in selecting someone with all the charisma of an aging, verbose, prep school spoily…who has a well documented record of plagiarism and other dishonesty.

My choices are now between McCain and Nader.

It’s as relevant to the conversation of Rwanda as that of Kenya.

Are we interested in the short-term satisfaction of seeing some we may have good reason to be angry with punished, or are we more interested in the long-term good?

We need more people like Mr. Githongo, not only in Africa, but in South America, and in so many countries where a governmental culture of corruption takes resources from the people for the benefit of a few.

But it’s the idea of amnesty — the focus on improvement of the governmental system, even if it means making some concessions to our gut desire for punishment, even when we have cause — that strikes me as the true power behind Mr. Githongo’s current approach.

“To retaliate with hate and bitterness would do nothing but intensify the hate in the world. Along the way of life, someone must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate. This can be done only by projecting the ethics of love to the center of our lives.”
-Martin Luther King, Jr.