Nigerian Times

Senator Barack Obama received the most important endorsement of his presidential campaign from his archrival, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton when she conceded the highly coveted presidential nomination of the United States Democratic Party to him on Saturday June 7, 2008. Then she called on her estimated 18 million voters and donors to support and vote for him in the 2008 U.S. Presidential election in November. “I endorse him and throw my full support behind him, and I ask of you to join me in working as hard for Barack Obama as you have for me," Senator Hillary Clinton said. Hillary Clinton said this was not the kind of finale she had hoped for when she began her presidential campaign in 2007, but she certainly loved the company of the mammoth crowd of her enthusiastic supporters and well-wishers who thronged the National Building Museum in Washington D.C, .to witness the suspension of her historic presidential campaign. She has proved that she is a formidable presidential ca...

The euphoria over the presidential candidacy of Senator Barack Obama in the American presidential race for the Oval Office is now the daily staple of the American news media. Barack Obama sells more newspapers and magazines and atttracts more visitors online. Nobody wants to be left out of the Obamania. I have read most of the news reports, features and commentaries on the political phenomenon of Barack Obama and this is my critical analysis of this political impressionist, who is the latest poster boy of American Democracy since Bill Clinton in the early 1990s. Barack Obama's political ambition is driven by sheer intellectual "grit and wit". I have separated the commonsense from the common nonsense, because of the ignorance and gullibility of most people who have joined the personality cult in millions. Hello! Let us separate the fantasy from the reality. Who is really Barack Obama? Senator Barack Obama is the Hawaiian born son of a black African student, Barack Obama,...

The hypocrisy of the American news media has become more pronounced in the coverage of the American presidential campaign in 2008. Presidential candidates have been misquoted, their statements distorted and reported out of context for sensational headlines and to start controversies to perpetrate malicious campaigns and turn voters against the targets of their offensives and the Clintons have been at the receiving end. That is why David Runciman’s article “Vote Hypocrite” on the Boston Globe online edition of February 3, 2008, is a good analysis of the conflict of interests among the Democrats and Republicans in their power struggle for political supremacy. I have seen spurious endorsements of the leading presidential candidates by those who have personal grudges against their political rivals. Malice and prejudice are so evident that only an ignorant observer would be fooled. These dishonest and ill-conceived approval ratings have only exposed the rot in American Democracy. It is n...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917–November 22, 1963) Dear Caroline Kennedy, I have just read your white lies on "A President Like My Father" published by The New York Times on Sunday, January 27, 2008. Senator Barack Obama What a day to choose to tell lies to the ignorant and gullible majority of Americans and the rest of the world who do not know the history of America and the rest of the world during the tragic administration of your beloved father, the late U.S. President John F. Kennedy, whose administration ended abruptly with his assassination. JFK with little Caroline . Search the archives of The New York Times for the facts of history and the role your father played in the assassinations of the leaders of Iraq in 1963. To let the whole world know the truth, I will simply copy and paste the facts for the public knowledge. The Atrocities of JFK: Iraq In 1963, the Kennedy administration backed a coup against the government of Iraq headed by General Abdel Karim Kas...