An old adage goes, “all is well that ends well”, I think I have reached what I can confidently call a happy ending and yet still the beginning of a beautiful journey ahead. Over the last seven years and the last couple of months, I have had a long wait for how the Presidential race would turn out especially in the Democratic party before translating to the national election—the republicans had a long list of weird candidates who only deserved to be stopped, only that the most unprepared and most reckless made as their eventual presumptive nominee(as I write this).Through and through, I have watched and studied President Obama’s Presidency very closely and right here, I speak from a very informed perspective: America doesn’t need and can’t afford a republican President right now(the scary part, Donald Trump, the man who says he can even choose to give away the Presidency to his vice once he is elected)—that should remind you that surely Donald Trump doesn’t in anyway have even the least rudimentary preparedness for such a big office, he is a scam and a corn artist as Justice Ruth Ginsburg eloquently put it.
It
is with great joy and pride that I congratulate the very much possible 45th President of the United States, Hillary Rodham Clinton, upon receiving senator
Sanders’ endorsement: a man who has run a campaign that can’t certainly go
unnoticed and of course along this line applaud Mrs. Clinton for considering
some of his former rival’s ideals into her agenda in the first 100 days as President.
I must say that the political maturity the two of you have shown is yet another
fundamental milestone in the Politics of not only America but the politics of
the whole world—I have said this before in my earlier columns that Mrs. Clinton and President Obama set the ladder so high eight years ago when they put
their campaign rivalry to bed: a thing that has achieved so much for the united
states; the Obama administration has been a very successful one.
Quick
forward: I will remind you the very passionate and eloquent words from Senator Sander’s endorsement
to Hillary Clinton, whom he vowed to make
sure she gets elected as the next President of the United States—a spoiler, ’the most intelligent person we have ever known’.
More to this, in his own words:
“It is
easy to forget where we were seven and half years ago when president Obama came
to office. As a result of greed, recklessness and illegal behavior on the Wall
Street, our economy was in the worst downtime since the Great Depression. Some
800,000 people a month were losing jobs, we were running up a record-breaking
deficit of $1.4 million dollars and the world’s financial system was at the
verge of collapse. We have come a long way in the last seven and a half years
and I thank President Obama and Vice President Biden for their leadership in
pulling us out of that terrible recession. But I think we all agree, much and
much more needs to be done”
(While
at this, take a look at President Obama’s (and his
administrations) beautiful performance that indeed deserves recognition,
as Bernie said above).
Photo source: Huffington Post |
Senator
Sanders went on to say: “our job now is
to see that platform implemented by a democratic senate, a democratic house and
a Hillary Clinton president—I am going to do everything I can to make that happen.
I have known Hillary for twenty five years now. I remember her as a great first
lady who broke precedent in terms of the role first lady was supposed to play
as she helped fight for Universal Healthcare. I served with her in the senate
and I know her as a fierce advocate for the rights of Children. Hillary will
make an outstanding President and I am proud to stand with her”.
This
brings me to what I intend to emphatically say herein—reminiscing on the second letter I wrote to President Obama and the
articulate and insightful endorsement for Mrs. Clinton: Hillary Clinton will do the job, I categorically
put these issues that Sen. Sanders just fact-checked above, we could use an
excerpt:
“Pg.51(624)
of her memoir, Living
a History, explicitly makes certain things clear and I would her own
words set the tone for what I am about to say, read with me: “my parents were
excited about seeing their daughter graduate, but my mother had been
experiencing health problems. A doctor prescribed blood thinners, and he
asked her to travel for a while. So regrettably, she couldn’t come to my
graduation, and my father wasn’t keen coming alone”. Now let me ask, who
remembers the Health Care scheme Hillary
proposed on the 2008 campaign trail?
As Hillary Clinton spoke at during the 2008
campaign trail, she said these words with concern: “I want to start by telling
you these words about Judy Rose whom
I met last month along with her husband John.
And so John and Judy lost not only
their job, they also lost their health insurance. A couple of months later, Judy was diagnosed with breast cancer.
Thankfully, a special government program started during my husband’s
administration and she recovered. But then, in 2003 John had a heart attack. He
spent hours in surgery and was in the intensive care. Fortunately, he survived
but when the bills came, their luck ran out.
The
cost of John’s care was so high; they had to sell their house they had lived in
for 30 years. That is the tragedy at the heart of Health care system—the devastation when one stroke of one bad luck undoes a
lifetime of hard work”. On the 2008 campaign trail, when Hillary lost to
Sen. Obama in the Democratic
primaries, I remember vividly; she endorsed Barack and Healthcare was
one of the reasons at the fore front (Remember:
when she said, No way, No more, No McCain! .I
have never forgotten and never will).She went on to cement her point: “Now as you know, I have been fighting on
healthcare for thirty years now. Starting as first lady of Arkansas, where I
headed a task force to improve rural healthcare. And most memorably of course
in the 1990’s, and I still have the scars to show from that exercise”. Who
is grateful for the Obama Care Insurance Scheme
that is serving over 20 million
Americans? Who is not grateful and doesn’t want to see that good work continue
to fruition? Do not have trouble answering,
but I can give you my best bet if you the hate all this good, vote Donald Trump
to the white house!”
In
a recent interview with VOX, Mrs. Clinton couldn’t put better her message of
going forward in Unity, as the United states of America; as I earlier wrote, “STRONGER TOGETHER: ‘HEALING AMERICA WITH HILLARY CLINTON”,
she emphasized her points in the interview saying: “A lot of governing is the slow, hard boring of her boards’ she went on.
‘I don’t think there is anything sexy exciting or headline-grabbing about it.I
think it is getting up every day, building the relationships, finding whatever
silver of common ground you can occupy , [and] never ever giving up in
continuing to reach out even to people who are sworn political adversaries”
For
so many of us that have paid very keen attention to the life and achievements
of Hillary Clinton(speaking for myself,atleast for the years I have admired her
verve and swagger—and of course President Clinton’s),these are raw facts that
only coming together as one can settle. One of the bloggers who read the piece
of work where I envision President Hillary Clinton along an admiration for the ‘Barack-Hillary’legacy; told me: “Grace, I love how you speak with authority
as if you are Hillary’s campaigner manager”—that was when I called the
Bernie camp to unite behind Hillary and defeat the Donald. I laughed really hard.
As I said time and again, my admiration for Hillary is beyond the ordinary,
thank God for my awesome friends who have made it a fulfilling experience: Peri Harris &Owen
Erima, the co-founders of #teamHillaryUganda, thanks for making this a
fulfilling experience for me.There is nothing in this world that beats a team
with a vision of achieving the common good for everyone, that is why we are
with her straight to the white house.
In
a Forever Forward detailed Facebook note to
his supporters, senator Sanders called upon his supporters to rally behind
Hillary Clinton. He wrote it as he had said eloquently while endorsing his
formal rival; ‘there are so many things that Hillary and I disagreed on and I
know that some of you may be disappointed but you don’t have to, Hillary and I
have embraced the ideals of the movement and she will make them happen as president’.
As the old adage goes, “good deeds are contagious”
President
Obama while paying his last respects to the slain police officers as well as
healing the nation in a tough time of loss put it rather accurately and I will
fetch his words: “I know Americans are
struggling but we must reject despair. I am here to insist that we are not
divided as we seem, and I know that because I know how far we have come against
impossible odds. I know we will make it because of what I’ve experienced in my
own life. What I’ve seen of this country and its people, their goodness and
decency as president of the United States—in the end, it is not about finding
policies that work, it’s about forging a consensus and fighting cynicism”.
It is not a secret that President has not just been a commander-in-chief but
also a unifier/consoler-in-chief. If there is anything America should be proud
of, it is the lasting imprint he has left
unto the American people. As Hillary Clinton said yesterday:
“let’s go and
win this election”. It’s all there is to preserving this legacy that
a sane soul appreciates, bless y’all.
Grace
Abaho Sr is an INDEPENDENT BLOGGER: For and on behalf of #TeamHillaryUganda—Peri Harris &Owen
Erima.
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