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barak hussein obama
posted 20-10-2008
Barack Hussein Obama II (pronounced born August 4, 1961) is the President-elect of the United States of America and the junior United States Senator from Illinois. His inauguration into office as the forty-fourth President of the United States is scheduled for January 20, 2009. Obama is the first African American to be elected President of the United States and was the first to be nominated for President by a major political party Obama is also the first candidate born in Hawaii to have been nominated and subsequently elected president
A graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, he became the first African American to serve as president of the Harvard Law Review Obama worked as a community organizer and practiced as a civil rights attorney before serving three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004. He taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. Following an unsuccessful bid for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2000, he announced his campaign for the U.S. Senate in January 2003. After a primary victory in March 2004, Obama delivered the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004. He was elected to the Senate in November 2004 with 70 percent of the vote.
As a member of the Democratic minority in the 109th Congress, he helped create legislation to control conventional weapons and to promote greater public accountability in the use of federal funds. He also made official trips to Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. During the 110th Congress, he helped create legislation regarding lobbying and electoral fraud, climate change, nuclear terrorism, and care for returned U.S. military personnel.
Obama announced his presidential campaign in February 2007, and was formally nominated at the 2008 Democratic National Convention with Delaware senator Joe Biden as his running mate. In the 2008 United States Presidential election he won 53% of the popular vote, and 364 electoral votes to rival John McCain's 46% of the popular vote and 173 electoral votes
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Barack Obama was born at the Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women & Children in Honolulu, Hawaii to Barack Hussein Obama, Sr., a Luo from Nyang’oma Kogelo, Nyanza Province, Kenya, and Ann Dunham, a white American from Wichita, Kansas of mainly English, Irish and smaller amounts of German descent His parents met in 1960 while attending the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where his father was a foreign student The couple married February 2, 1961 they separated when Obama was two years old and subsequently divorced in 1964 Obama's father returned to Kenya and saw his son only once more before dying in an automobile accident in 1982
After her divorce, Dunham married Lolo Soetoro, and the family moved to Soetoro's home country of Indonesia in 1967, where Obama attended local schools, such as Asisi, in Jakarta until he was ten years old. He then returned to Honolulu to live with his maternal grandparents while attending Punahou School from the fifth grade in 1971 until his graduation from high school in 1979 Obama's mother returned to Hawaii in 1972 for several years, and then in 1977 went back to Indonesia, where she worked as an anthropological field worker. She stayed there most of the rest of her life, returning to Hawaii in 1994. She died of ovarian cancer in 1995
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Building Democratic Institutions of Governance
posted 27-11-2008
The NEBE (The Nation Election Board of Ethiopia) by its very nature of how it was formed is biased. The opposition knew this fact perfectly well when it started. It was formed by the ruling party and as it was recently revealed by PM Meles himself on the BBC interview-“Hard Talk”.
The challenge now is for the opposition to stay in the game and build an important democratic political institution, a neutral NEBE accountable to the nation and the people, not to a ruling party or any other future party for that matter. This is job number one in the next parliament, in addition to other peaceful battles of debate and dialogue aimed at forming “pillars of democratic institutions” such as term limits, amendment of article 39, land policy, and education/language policy, investment and privatization policy in a way that is fair and acceptable to the majority of the Ethiopian population. Building democratic institutions may take decades, but we are only talking about 5 years patience. In a political life Ethiopia, which has languished under dictatorship and misrule under various regimes for hundred of years, and in its extreme form over the last 30 years, five years is nothing.
Moreover, we must understand that the problems of political leadership and democratic failure and peaceful transition over the last three regimes in Ethiopia has always been absence of a strong and united democratic party alternative, before the incumbent regimes fall under their own weight as they did in 1974,and 1991 in the country’s recent history.
The same thing will be repeated this time if the opposition does not organize and provide viable alternatives, and the ruling party remains rigid and not change some of its non-democratic or even destructive policies enshrined in few articles of the Current Constitution. By the way, this phenomenon which is called "historical path persistence" by Nobel Laureate economic historian Douglas North is real in contemporary democratic transition of nations around. This is the notion that once societies and institutions are gripped by conflict and take a destructive path they tend to produce incentives and characters/ actors that trap them in the same path. There are many societies that find themselves in this path today, and Ethiopia is not alone in this regard.
If both the opposition and the ruling party face up to the challenge of promoting true democracy grounded on protection of individual freedom and human rights,ethnic groeps rights secured property, rights, just rule of law, equitable and free politically choice and expression for citizens, etc. Ethiopia has the potential to be fully democratized where citizens have a choice among two three strong multi-ethnic political parties that differ on ideology and policies, and avoid this monopoly of political power,
The challenge of building democratic institutions and political parties that will guide a true democratic process in Ethiopia or any developing country for that matter, is to create right for all ethnic groeps democratic parties peacefully from the current proliferation of opposition parties. For example, in the current political landscape of Ethiopia, CUD (Kinijit) and UEDF (Hibret) can evolve as a viable independent parties in their own right, by uniting their respective coalition party members and producing visionary and flexible, and enlightened (not rigid) leaders. The EPRDF has also the right and the choice to true democracy for Ethiopia,
But, this is for the opposition to sort out and produce a united loyal opposition party with visionary and enlightened leaders. This is not denying there are potential credible visionary leaders among both UEDF and UEDF some of whom are well known nationally and internationally. As to the EPRDF, even the current head of this party,
“Therefore, the ethnic coalitions in the ruling party and to freely form coalition party membership based on political preference or ideology may remove the conflicts that threaten to destroy the basic right of ethnic groeps and democratization process in Ethiopia, and drive some of the policies that balkanize the Country, and market based economic development.So the parties peacefully which are loyal to the nation and its people, like emerging democracies around the world that are struggling to be free and democratic in a civilized manner around the world.
unlees the opsition CDU and other coalition pary realized the rights of all ethnic groeps and thier owen representation it is unexceptebel with two or multi party coalition to keep the curse dimocatization of ethiopia.
the EPRDF keept Ethiopia above 15 years on right path indeuring dimocracy and right course of history for future Genaration.
If the current democratization process is sustained with proper and visionary leadership of the concerned parties, the process will have a chance to move forward and be realized peacefully at the next election in 2010 with a democratic outcome. This will only be possible, if the opposition stays in the game, and leaders learn to trust each other, and the ruling party backs up this democratization process. and this produce viable visionary leadership on its part. But, copying out in the middle of the beginning of this unique and long journey to democratization, by opposition, will produce nothing but a sure set back of the will of the people expressed on May 15, and result in political chaos of which the outcome cannot be predicted with certainty by any one. To move along this line, all concerned parties must fight extremism in their midst and wherever it comes from and stay in the game, and show courage and visionary leadership.
Frankly, why would a rational opposition voter in Ethiopia vote again, if and when the opposition abandons the struggle for, whatever reason,that it has agreed to by boycotting the next parliament. Such a potential voter may not vote at the next election for any party out of expression of anger and protest. This may result in a few voters that will most likely vote for the ruling party, and perhaps allow the ruling party to “win” in a landslide by de-facto, similar to the elections before May 15 when there is little voter turn out by supporter of the ruling regime.
As a person who had an opportunity to observed carefully the election process on May 15 in Ethiopia on a private visit to Ethiopia, This May 15 election outcome surprised the opposition. It also surprised and and scared the ruling party, which assumed the vote will be as in previous elections.
Moreover, a careful observation and understanding of the the May 15,2005 national elections, is not necessarily an expression of “love” of the opposition by the people, an opposition which was just formed and which was a generally unknown entity or to the Ethiopian people. But, it is the credit of the opposition and its leaders to provide this choice.
But, to win the necessary confidence of the voters, they have a long way to go, which must start with staying in the game with great patience and courage,to which they have correctly agreed to start.
Ethiopian aspiring political leaders must go beyond, "mistrust", "Kurfia" or anger which kills constructive dialogue and compromise necessary for democracy, and move away from a political culture of conflict among individuals and organizations over trivial matters, abdicating their struggle and responsibilities due to extremism and mistrust, frustration, and learn to move forward to advance democracy with courage, honesty, and sacrifice if necessary.
The silent majority especially among the intellectuals and civil society groups (which this writer considers himself to be a member of)-must speak and not remain silent out of fear or “Yelunta”. The English saying that “Silence is golden” does not work when human freedom and the revival of a nation and people is at stake. The Diaspora must rise to the responsibility of speaking the truth and promoting fairness and democracy, and dislodge itself from extremism that promotes hatred of individual actors in the game or the process of political competition, and detracts people from the noble goal of democratization, human freedom, and socio-economic progress.
It the opposition moves along the proposed line and the ruling party cooperates in this regard for its own good and the good of the country, will have a chance to be free and democratic. All stakeholders including the opposition parties, the ruling party, civil society groups, civil society groups, independent intellectuals, and most important the Ethiopian people have a chance to stay on right curse of dimocratization.
Ethiopia will then have a chance to revive and become, for the first time in its long history, to be a member of progressive and viable free democratic nations in Africa in general and developing nations in general. This great country with long history,and her great people deserves that chance.
The challenge of civil society groups and intellectuals, and citizens is to move this process along not to collapse in the face of extremism, knowingly or out of ignorance, fear or lack of courage and vision. that said the EPRDF deserve most credit for keeping Ethopian dimocracy on right course.
The Struggle for human freedom and Progress in Ethiopia and the rest of Africa must continue on a sustained basis, and Ethiopia and a few African states that have began this difficult but necessary process must lead against all challenges.
