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He changed minds of many latinos during primaries and they supported Obama instead of Hillary and therefore helped Obama to clinch the nomination.
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He changed minds of many latinos during primaries and they supported Obama instead of Hillary and therefore helped Obama to clinch the nomination.
Nyani Ngabu
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Sidhani kama Jindal yuko kwenye shortlist....he's just too dark skinned (I'm sorry to say that but it's the truth)
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Its the truth nitakuunga mkono.Guess coz he is Indian American.
Speculation over vice presidential nomination
Jindal at a John McCain campaign event in Kenner, Louisiana, June 2008 On February 8, 2008, conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh mentioned on his syndicated show that Jindal could be a possible choice for the Republican vice presidential nomination in 2008. He said that Jindal might be perceived as an asset to McCain's campaign because he has support in the conservative base of the Republican Party and his youth offsets Sen. McCain's age. If McCain were to win the presidency, he would be the oldest president ever inaugurated to a first term.Heightening the speculation, McCain invited Jindal, Governor Charlie Crist of Florida, Governor Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota and McCain's former rivals Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee to meet with at McCain's home in Arizona on Friday, May 23, 2008, according to a Republican familiar with the decision; Romney, Huckabee, and Pawlenty, all of whom were already well acquainted with McCain, declined because of prior commitments.The meeting, however, may actually have served a different purpose, such as consideration of Jindal for the opportunity to speak at the 2008 Republican National Convention, in a similar fashion to Barack Obama at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, cementing a place for him in the party and opening the gate for a future run for the presidency. On May 28, 2008, a Google Hot Trends report for internet searches originating in the United States indicated a higher ranking and interest in Gov. Bobby Jindal. The report compared the search term 'Jindal' Vs. other leading GOP VP contenders including Gov. Huckabee as well as Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, a favorite for the Democratic VP post.
Speculation was further fueled by simultaneous July 21, 2008, reports that Sen. McCain was making a sudden visit to Louisiana to again meet with Gov. Jindal and that Sen. McCain was readying to name his running mate within a week.
On July 23, 2008, Jindal said he will not be the Republican vice presidential nominee in 2008.Jindal added that he "never talked to the senator [McCain] about the vice presidency or his thoughts on selecting the vice president."
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The alarm bells started ringing last week in the rightmost corners of Republican Nation, when John McCain suggested to The Weekly Standard that the door was still open to the possibility of his naming Tom Ridge as his running mate. Ridge, the former governor of Pennsylvania and ex-head of the Department of Homeland Security, is a supporter of abortion rights i.e., an enabler of mass-scale fetus slaughter in the eyes of the GOPs ardent pro-life faction. McCains appearance Saturday night at Saddleback Church, where he declared himself a fervent pro-lifer and one who will govern as such, reduced the abortion-apostasy danger level from orange to yellow. But the threatometer began blinking red this morning, when word hit the Web that McCain officials have been calling up key Republican officials and donors, sounding them out about the scale of the fallout from a pro-choice V.P. pick.
The wailing and gnashing from the wing-nut caucus was immediate and hysterical. If the McCain camp does that, they will have effectively destroyed the Republican Party and put the conservative movement in the bleachers, ranted Rush Limbaugh, singling out Ridge and Joe Lieberman as running mates who would ensure [McCains] defeat. Within hours, presto-chango, a GOP strategist was telling Times Mark Halperin that Ridge had been removed from consideration. Soon enough, two Republican sources of mine confirmed the Halperin scooplet, and said further that the McCainiacs had got the message that a pro-choice number two would lead to a full-blown conflagration at the Republican convention two weeks from now in St. Paul. (Matt Drudge may no longer rule our world, but El Rushbo still gets results!)
The sensible question that arises from all this is just how serious the McCain brain trust has ever really been about ruffling the feathers of the GOPs Evangelical wing. The argument for a pro-choice running mate isnt difficult to comprehend, to be sure. That McCain is running neck and neck with Barack Obama owes much to the image he built for himself long ago as a maverick, a guy willing to disregard his partys dogma when it ran against his conception of what was in the countrys best interests (on immigration, campaign-finance reform, etc.). But that image of McCain is severely out of date; in the weeks ahead, the Republican nominee faces whats sure to be a vigorous and concerted effort by Obama and the Democratic Party to paint him as a clone of George W. Bush.
What better way, then, to blunt that thrust, to show that McCain remains an independent-minded iconoclast, than to go pro-choice with his V.P. selection? Sure it would incite a blowup at the GOP convention. But that would only illustrate the point that, well, McCain is still McCain while at the same time he could pacify the pro-life crowd by pointing out that a vice-president has no role in shaping the nations abortion laws, and that McCain has pledged up and down to appoint strict constructionist judges (jurists inclined, that is, to overturn Roe v. Wade) to the Supreme Court regardless of who happens to be occupying the Old Executive Office Building.
The problem with this argument lies in a raft of recent polling data that shows McCain smartly gaining support among the Republican base, and with Evangelicals in particular. (Hes gone from 61 to 68 percent since June, according to Pew.) Whereas a few months ago, when the widespread assumption was that Obama would have perhaps a double-digit lead going into the Democratic convention, the race today is a dead heat, thus lessening the incentive for McCain to shake things up with any sort of outside-the-box V.P. choice. And with animus toward the hopemonger growing among conservatives, theres even a chance that McCain, if he refrains from offending the base, might be able to generate a healthy (albeit nowhere near Bush-level) turnout on the rabid, rock-ribbed right an unthinkable scenario even a few months ago*.
So what the hells the deal with all these ostensible pro-choice trial balloons? Well, what if McCain were planning to name a running mate who, despite being pro-life, the religious right has some qualms about? What if that putative V.P., indeed, had lately been criticized by another erstwhile GOP presidential runner a Baptist minister, no less for his shifting stances on social issues, stirring up a rearguard action among some Christianists to block him? Isnt it possible that McCain and his people are engaged in a bit of elaborate gamesmanship designed to make Evangelicals more grateful than they otherwise might be for the selection of that guy?
The heart doth sink and the mind doth reel, but I do believe what we are looking at here is the start of the Romney Rollout.
*Addendum: For another reason why McCain is highly unlikely to pick a pro-choice VP, see former Bush adviser Pete Wehner's post today on the Commentary website about Obama's alleged pro-abortion extremism which Wehner calls "the policy equivalent of his long-time association with Reverend Wright." Putting aside the hyperbole of the argument, if this is something that the right is going to target, it would make no sense at all for McCain to muddy the waters on an issue that could drive Evangelical turn-out by selecting a running mate who's in favor of abortion rights.
The wailing and gnashing from the wing-nut caucus was immediate and hysterical. If the McCain camp does that, they will have effectively destroyed the Republican Party and put the conservative movement in the bleachers, ranted Rush Limbaugh, singling out Ridge and Joe Lieberman as running mates who would ensure [McCains] defeat. Within hours, presto-chango, a GOP strategist was telling Times Mark Halperin that Ridge had been removed from consideration. Soon enough, two Republican sources of mine confirmed the Halperin scooplet, and said further that the McCainiacs had got the message that a pro-choice number two would lead to a full-blown conflagration at the Republican convention two weeks from now in St. Paul. (Matt Drudge may no longer rule our world, but El Rushbo still gets results!)
The sensible question that arises from all this is just how serious the McCain brain trust has ever really been about ruffling the feathers of the GOPs Evangelical wing. The argument for a pro-choice running mate isnt difficult to comprehend, to be sure. That McCain is running neck and neck with Barack Obama owes much to the image he built for himself long ago as a maverick, a guy willing to disregard his partys dogma when it ran against his conception of what was in the countrys best interests (on immigration, campaign-finance reform, etc.). But that image of McCain is severely out of date; in the weeks ahead, the Republican nominee faces whats sure to be a vigorous and concerted effort by Obama and the Democratic Party to paint him as a clone of George W. Bush.
What better way, then, to blunt that thrust, to show that McCain remains an independent-minded iconoclast, than to go pro-choice with his V.P. selection? Sure it would incite a blowup at the GOP convention. But that would only illustrate the point that, well, McCain is still McCain while at the same time he could pacify the pro-life crowd by pointing out that a vice-president has no role in shaping the nations abortion laws, and that McCain has pledged up and down to appoint strict constructionist judges (jurists inclined, that is, to overturn Roe v. Wade) to the Supreme Court regardless of who happens to be occupying the Old Executive Office Building.
The problem with this argument lies in a raft of recent polling data that shows McCain smartly gaining support among the Republican base, and with Evangelicals in particular. (Hes gone from 61 to 68 percent since June, according to Pew.) Whereas a few months ago, when the widespread assumption was that Obama would have perhaps a double-digit lead going into the Democratic convention, the race today is a dead heat, thus lessening the incentive for McCain to shake things up with any sort of outside-the-box V.P. choice. And with animus toward the hopemonger growing among conservatives, theres even a chance that McCain, if he refrains from offending the base, might be able to generate a healthy (albeit nowhere near Bush-level) turnout on the rabid, rock-ribbed right an unthinkable scenario even a few months ago*.
So what the hells the deal with all these ostensible pro-choice trial balloons? Well, what if McCain were planning to name a running mate who, despite being pro-life, the religious right has some qualms about? What if that putative V.P., indeed, had lately been criticized by another erstwhile GOP presidential runner a Baptist minister, no less for his shifting stances on social issues, stirring up a rearguard action among some Christianists to block him? Isnt it possible that McCain and his people are engaged in a bit of elaborate gamesmanship designed to make Evangelicals more grateful than they otherwise might be for the selection of that guy?
The heart doth sink and the mind doth reel, but I do believe what we are looking at here is the start of the Romney Rollout.
*Addendum: For another reason why McCain is highly unlikely to pick a pro-choice VP, see former Bush adviser Pete Wehner's post today on the Commentary website about Obama's alleged pro-abortion extremism which Wehner calls "the policy equivalent of his long-time association with Reverend Wright." Putting aside the hyperbole of the argument, if this is something that the right is going to target, it would make no sense at all for McCain to muddy the waters on an issue that could drive Evangelical turn-out by selecting a running mate who's in favor of abortion rights.
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Wamarekani hawatomchaguwa huyu jamaa hizi nikampeni
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McCain Picks Palin for Running Mate
A Look at Sarah Palin
In a surprise move, Republican presidential candidate John McCain picked Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate. Here, they appear before a cheering throng in Dayton, Ohio, Friday.
Palin is the state's 11th governor, the first woman to hold that office and, at 44, the youngest. She is the first Republican vice presidential candidate who is not a white man.
Palin takes the oath of office for governor on Dec. 4, 2006 as her husband Todd holds the Bible. Born in Idaho, her family moved to Alaska when she was 3 months old. She grew up in Wasilla, about 30 miles outside of Anchorage.
Palin dances with her husband
at an inaugural ball in Juneau,
Alaska in 2007. Before becoming
her state's top executive, she was
a television sports journalist and
helped run her family's commercial
fishing business. At 32 she was
elected mayor of Wasilla.
The Palins have five children.
The oldest son enlisted in the Army
last year and will deploy to
Iraq on Sept. 11, Sarah Palin
said Friday. The youngest, Trig,
was born in April and has Down Syndrome.
Her husband is part Yup'ik Eskimo.
The Palins also have three daughters -
Bristol, now 17, and Piper, now 6,
who are pictured here during their
mother's inauguration, and Willow, 14.
Palin is pro-life. "We understand that
every innocent life has wonderful potential,"
she told the Associated Press.
Palin unveils her state's commemorative quarter
last year. She gained a reputation in Alaska
for fighting corruption. In 2004 she resigned
from the state's Oil and Gas Conservation
Commission after complaining about a fellow
commissioner who later paid a $12,000
fine for violating state ethics laws.
Palin competed for Miss Alaska
and was featured in Vogue magazine last year.
A popular Alaska bumper sticker:
"Coldest State, Hottest Gov."
A Look at Sarah Palin
In a surprise move, Republican presidential candidate John McCain picked Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate. Here, they appear before a cheering throng in Dayton, Ohio, Friday.
Palin is the state's 11th governor, the first woman to hold that office and, at 44, the youngest. She is the first Republican vice presidential candidate who is not a white man.
Palin takes the oath of office for governor on Dec. 4, 2006 as her husband Todd holds the Bible. Born in Idaho, her family moved to Alaska when she was 3 months old. She grew up in Wasilla, about 30 miles outside of Anchorage.
Palin dances with her husband
at an inaugural ball in Juneau,
Alaska in 2007. Before becoming
her state's top executive, she was
a television sports journalist and
helped run her family's commercial
fishing business. At 32 she was
elected mayor of Wasilla.
The Palins have five children.
The oldest son enlisted in the Army
last year and will deploy to
Iraq on Sept. 11, Sarah Palin
said Friday. The youngest, Trig,
was born in April and has Down Syndrome.
Her husband is part Yup'ik Eskimo.
The Palins also have three daughters -
Bristol, now 17, and Piper, now 6,
who are pictured here during their
mother's inauguration, and Willow, 14.
Palin is pro-life. "We understand that
every innocent life has wonderful potential,"
she told the Associated Press.
Palin unveils her state's commemorative quarter
last year. She gained a reputation in Alaska
for fighting corruption. In 2004 she resigned
from the state's Oil and Gas Conservation
Commission after complaining about a fellow
commissioner who later paid a $12,000
fine for violating state ethics laws.
Palin competed for Miss Alaska
and was featured in Vogue magazine last year.
A popular Alaska bumper sticker:
"Coldest State, Hottest Gov."
LIZ SIDOTI and BETH FOUHY - AP said:
All change and you better Believe in Change. All change ... ...
MotoYaMbongo
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Kwani akiwa Obama Rais wa USA ndo umaskini wa Afrika utaisha? Atatetea maslahi ya nchi yake. Badala ya kufikiria namna gani tupambane na mafisadi ktk nchi zetu za kiafrika, tuko busy na Obama. Tuache upumbavu waafrika.
BAK
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US election: Storm as Oprah says no to Palin interview
TV chat show queen and Obama supporter Winfrey rules out a TV interview with the Republican vice-presidential candidate
Paul Harris in New York and Ed Pilkington in Alaska The Observer, Sunday September 7 2008
Oprah Winfrey, America's favourite daytime TV star, has refused to have Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin as a guest on her talk show.
Winfrey, a prominent supporter of Democratic nominee Barack Obama, has been facing pressure from conservative commentators and pundits who say that Palin would be a perfect interview for her female-heavy audience.
Such an appearance would be a huge coup for the John McCain campaign. Palin, the party's first female vice-presidential choice, is making a determined bid for women voters and frequently refers to herself as a 'hockey mom' who just happened to fall into politics.
But Winfrey, responding to rumours on conservative websites like the Drudge Report that her staff was divided on the issue, squashed the idea of an interview. 'When I decided that I was going to take my first public stance in support of a candidate, I made the decision not to use my show as a platform for any of the candidates,' she said in a statement.
Some experts believe the issue, initially reported on Drudge - which first gained notoriety when it broke the Monica Lewinsky scandal - was a media ploy to drag Winfrey's backing of Obama into the election and show a media bias against the Republicans. But Winfrey's statement slammed reports on Drudge that there was a fierce debate going on among her staff about having Palin on as a guest. Winfrey called the story 'categorically untrue' and said there had been no discussion about having Palin on during the election.
'I agree that Sarah Palin would be a fantastic interview, and I would love to have her on after the campaign is over,' Winfrey said.
The issue shows the potential danger in Winfrey's open support for Obama, especially as he was a guest on her show several times before she came out in favour of his candidacy. It also now plays into a current Republican strategy of attacking the media as biased against their party. The story also shows the many unpredictable ways that Palin has already shaken up the presidential election. Her sex and modest family background has opened up a whole new demographic appeal for the McCain campaign which is now aggressively courting suburban and small-town American women - who are exactly Winfrey's audience.
But her selection also has risks. Palin is a little-known political quantity and there has already been a flood of stories about her private and political life as governor of Alaska. She is also waging a ferocious legal campaign to block a bipartisan state investigation into claims she pursued a personal vendetta against a former family member. The dispute, inevitably called 'Troopergate', threatens to dog Palin as she hits the campaign trail. The complex case is looking at allegations that she dismissed the head of the Alaskan police service, safety commissioner Walt Monegan, because he refused to bow to pressure and sack Palin's former brother-in-law from the police force.
Trooper Mike Wooten was involved in an acrimonious divorce from Palin's sister before the governor took up her post. Palin denies any impropriety, though she has acknowledged that more than 20 approaches were made to the commissioner by her husband Todd and her closest aides urging him to take disciplinary action against Wooten.
Last week she appointed a private lawyer to represent her interests. Thomas Van Flein is an Anchorage attorney with a tough reputation who specialises in employment law. He has moved swiftly to put spokes in the wheel of Stephen Branchflower, a former state prosecutor appointed by the legislature to conduct the investigation. Seven key witnesses who had previously agreed to co-operate with Branchflower have now retracted the offer. Two other witnesses were last week interviewed by Van Flein - a spoiling technique that for legal reasons could make it more difficult for Branchflower to quiz them.
As Palin's lawyer fights aggressively to contain one forest fire, another appears to be flaring up. New allegations have surfaced that potentially criminal acts were committed in snooping into Wooten's personal employment files. A taped telephone conversation between one of Palin's staff and a senior manager in the police department, in which complaints were made about Wooten, suggested that he had lied on an official form claiming compensation for injury at work. Wooten's union, the Public Safety Employees Association, has issued its own legal proceedings that allege such information could only have been obtained in breach of the trooper's right to confidentiality - a potential crime.
TV chat show queen and Obama supporter Winfrey rules out a TV interview with the Republican vice-presidential candidate
Paul Harris in New York and Ed Pilkington in Alaska The Observer, Sunday September 7 2008
Oprah Winfrey, America's favourite daytime TV star, has refused to have Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin as a guest on her talk show.
Winfrey, a prominent supporter of Democratic nominee Barack Obama, has been facing pressure from conservative commentators and pundits who say that Palin would be a perfect interview for her female-heavy audience.
Such an appearance would be a huge coup for the John McCain campaign. Palin, the party's first female vice-presidential choice, is making a determined bid for women voters and frequently refers to herself as a 'hockey mom' who just happened to fall into politics.
But Winfrey, responding to rumours on conservative websites like the Drudge Report that her staff was divided on the issue, squashed the idea of an interview. 'When I decided that I was going to take my first public stance in support of a candidate, I made the decision not to use my show as a platform for any of the candidates,' she said in a statement.
Some experts believe the issue, initially reported on Drudge - which first gained notoriety when it broke the Monica Lewinsky scandal - was a media ploy to drag Winfrey's backing of Obama into the election and show a media bias against the Republicans. But Winfrey's statement slammed reports on Drudge that there was a fierce debate going on among her staff about having Palin on as a guest. Winfrey called the story 'categorically untrue' and said there had been no discussion about having Palin on during the election.
'I agree that Sarah Palin would be a fantastic interview, and I would love to have her on after the campaign is over,' Winfrey said.
The issue shows the potential danger in Winfrey's open support for Obama, especially as he was a guest on her show several times before she came out in favour of his candidacy. It also now plays into a current Republican strategy of attacking the media as biased against their party. The story also shows the many unpredictable ways that Palin has already shaken up the presidential election. Her sex and modest family background has opened up a whole new demographic appeal for the McCain campaign which is now aggressively courting suburban and small-town American women - who are exactly Winfrey's audience.
But her selection also has risks. Palin is a little-known political quantity and there has already been a flood of stories about her private and political life as governor of Alaska. She is also waging a ferocious legal campaign to block a bipartisan state investigation into claims she pursued a personal vendetta against a former family member. The dispute, inevitably called 'Troopergate', threatens to dog Palin as she hits the campaign trail. The complex case is looking at allegations that she dismissed the head of the Alaskan police service, safety commissioner Walt Monegan, because he refused to bow to pressure and sack Palin's former brother-in-law from the police force.
Trooper Mike Wooten was involved in an acrimonious divorce from Palin's sister before the governor took up her post. Palin denies any impropriety, though she has acknowledged that more than 20 approaches were made to the commissioner by her husband Todd and her closest aides urging him to take disciplinary action against Wooten.
Last week she appointed a private lawyer to represent her interests. Thomas Van Flein is an Anchorage attorney with a tough reputation who specialises in employment law. He has moved swiftly to put spokes in the wheel of Stephen Branchflower, a former state prosecutor appointed by the legislature to conduct the investigation. Seven key witnesses who had previously agreed to co-operate with Branchflower have now retracted the offer. Two other witnesses were last week interviewed by Van Flein - a spoiling technique that for legal reasons could make it more difficult for Branchflower to quiz them.
As Palin's lawyer fights aggressively to contain one forest fire, another appears to be flaring up. New allegations have surfaced that potentially criminal acts were committed in snooping into Wooten's personal employment files. A taped telephone conversation between one of Palin's staff and a senior manager in the police department, in which complaints were made about Wooten, suggested that he had lied on an official form claiming compensation for injury at work. Wooten's union, the Public Safety Employees Association, has issued its own legal proceedings that allege such information could only have been obtained in breach of the trooper's right to confidentiality - a potential crime.
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Did other Candidate use her TV show to Campaign or just as guests to talk about different life issues?? I she will walk clean on this one...however this is strong reminder not to mix business with politics.
Nyani Ngabu
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No law is being broken. That is her show and she can do whatever she wants. Equal time doesn't apply to talk shows.
BAK
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Mambo ya Ngoswe mwachie Ngoswe!
William J. Malecela
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Hivi kuwa rais wa USA ni lazima uwe mtii wa Mungu?
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si lazima lakini nchi yenyewe ilijengwa na wazungu ambao at most walikuwa ni ma RELIGIOUS FANATICS waliotimuliwa EUROPE...sasa hiyo says alot about that society ambayo inaamini dini and the none sense that comes with it..kama vile In God we TRUST etc
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Lakini mkuu si kuna separation ya Church na State, tena Democrats ndio vinara wa kuisimamia hiyo kanuni, au?
Maana nifikiri a debate inapaswa kuwa on what to do na hao watu yaani mashoga na the rest katika society, na hasa kuhusu ishu ya ndoa zao kuwa legal au? Maana sidhani kama kupiga kura kwao kunatakiwa kuwa an ishu, maana sasa tuna-question uraia wao au nina-miss something hapa?
Maana nifikiri a debate inapaswa kuwa on what to do na hao watu yaani mashoga na the rest katika society, na hasa kuhusu ishu ya ndoa zao kuwa legal au? Maana sidhani kama kupiga kura kwao kunatakiwa kuwa an ishu, maana sasa tuna-question uraia wao au nina-miss something hapa?
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Suala la ushoga na usagaji ni sawa na uzinzi na uchangudoa ambavyo vyote vimejaa hapa kwetu TZ. Yote hayo ni immorality/ufisadi! Mbona hapa hao wanajisi/mafisadi wanapiga kura! Si afadhali hao wasagaji na mashoga kuliko hawa mafisadi wetu wa EPA, Richmund na jamii yake!!
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Hawa Viongozi wa Nchi si huwa wanakuwa ni Chaguo la Mungu; sasa mimi naona kama Mungu katuchagulia ni bora tukubali yaishe.
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Kula tano mkuu...hii imenifurahisha sana.