Kenya: Kikuyu: Kibaki

i'm only a several hours' drive from Nairobi, here, possibly the closest i'll ever be to Kenya's capital in the next several years, sadly.

and everything in Kenya has been pretty much shot to hell.

i've become so absorbed with all the news from Kenya since things started getting fishy only several days after Christmas, with the Election Commission delaying in publishing the winner of the race.

and a couple nights ago i had coffee with John, the base leader here, his wife Jesinta, K-K, Jeff, and Megan. John and his wife are Kenyans, living here in Arusha, running the base. the other four of us are all from the west.

Jesinta left us as the conversation shifted toward politics and the night wore on, for she had children to tend to for bedtime.

a couple other guests had already left, and gone to bed. thus it was only the five of us, with John and i in the thick of it, since i'm the only westerner who's really been following the whole thing.

i found out that Kibaki, the "president" of Kenya (who nearly undoubtedly won by mass rigging of the votes), who has already run the country for 5 years, has nearly backed himself into a corner. i pointed out that i'm surprised no one's assassinated him yet.

John told me that if things keep going the way they are for maybe only another two months, it's not too far-fetched of an idea.

either way, among his options are:
resigning.
going to court.
calling for a re-election which will bring about the first two options, probably, since he'll lose.
or being killed.

brother Kibaki, what have you done?
i do not pity you. i do not sympathize with you at all. if you even still cared about your own people, the Kikuyus, then maybe i'd feel bad for you. but you don't. their deaths and displacement mean nothing to you.

you are my brother, only as long as you remain human. you're nearing that boundary, and i fear you'll cross it, brother.

i cannot wait for justice to be dealt to you and yours.

step down and allow Odinga to save your countrymen.

presidential elections in the USA 2008

The official year of election for America’s next president has began a few days ago.

Now every candidate tries to go out and talk to the people as often and as much as possible.

I had a closer look at the programs of some people and I found out about some stuff which I don’t really like.
I don’t really like all of their ideas. Every candidate has something he stands for, I can’t really agree with. But that’s normal when you talk about politics. You'll never find someone you can fully agree with.

For me it’s hard to stand behind one of the candidates.
So I’m some kind of happy that I won’t have and won’t be allowed to vote for the next president of the USA.
It’s difficult to decide for one person especially this year.

The last survey in December 2007 showed that 39% would vote for Hillary Clinton and 24% would give their vote to Barack Obama; both are Democrats. For the Republics, there is Rudolph Giuliani to whom 25% would give their vote and 16% would give their vote to Mike Huckabee.

There are some others on the list as well but they get 0- 15% only. So they don’t really have a huge chance to win the election except they really make a good election campaign.

Frankly I don’t like all these election campaigns. They spend too much money on it. All together they’ll spend about 1 billion $ on their election campaigns this year in the USA but this isn't only a problem of the USA, all over the world, also in Germany, they spend too much on election campaigns.

Do you have any favorite you’d vote for right now?

If I'd be allowed to vote, I would vote for Jesus... ;-)
-> have a look at Archer's blog entry "-a really controversial political/ecclesiastical blog on Hillary Clinton-"

I’ll pray for all the Americans who are allowed to vote, to make the right decision and I’ll pray for the ones who want to become the next president of the United States that they’ll follow the right aims and God's will.

God bless you
-Krissi