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She is a new wife in the name of Someone-Mboya, the daughter of the slain Tom Mboya.
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Dr. Susan Mboya Kideraw (has a PHD in industrial pharmacy from Massachusetts College of Pharmacy.Currently at Coca Cola (GM franchise?).....The girl knows not one word in Swahili!.

Someone forwarded to me this from a different blog and I thought it aptly captures the difference between YT2 and Quideraw s' the author regular comments on the daily nation'
Let us do this: Did you watch the first Romney- Obama duel? Obama lost miserably. One of the reasons for this was that he could not hide his disdain for Romney, whom he thought intellectually inferior. The other was that he sounded professorial.
Afterwards, the Obama campaign assigned that other genius, Bill Clinton, the task of reeling out the stats and crunching the numbers. Obama's job was left to tug the heartstrings and squeeze out every tear through soaring oratory and folksy, heartwarming stories. By the second debate, Mr Obama was doing well.
Politics is about democracy. You cannot elect a person you do not like. Even if you are a genius, you have to be likeable, speak the majority's language - Obama started saying 'different than' on the campaign trail. You have to go down to the voter's level, and interpret the data into messages that speak to their everyday life. Failing to do that isn't just inconsiderate, it is also terrible politics.
Mbaru was appealing. But he leant too much on his boardroom achievemnets and omitted his street cred. Kidero presents a more difficult proposition: he is naturally stuck up, is a newcomer to Nairobi hustle and bustle, and was nominated uncompetitively. Whether or not you like it, the direct nomination works against him: Waititu already has scars and scalps to show his mojo when Kidero still has that backdoor jerk's look on his face.
Kidero, even when trying his best, still comes out as the enemy Waititu is taking the battle to. Kiingereza excess, petho mob. Waititu's burly, shady, man-on-the-street look (all his interviews, he is wearing the same pair of shoes) is not accidental. he is communicating with his whole being! Kidero only speaks through his mouth. An Waititu is working on a dangerous proposition: mastery of low expectations. Since we think he is uneducated and probably an idiot, he uses your very low opinion of him to deliver knock-outs. Time after time.
And do you, dear folks, really want to sell that delusion that, somehow, mama mboga, Securicor guard, the itinerant laundress, mechanic, watercart pusher, plumber, mjengo dude, tout, mboch, gardener, driver, welder, etc, will have time, in 45 days, or even a life time, to develop an aptitude for numbers, statistics, projections, comparisons. GDP? PPP? That he will vote in the class that rebels against paying the Minimum Wage? That they will propitiate our haughty, inconsiderate, pretentious ways? How many times do our like talk down at them? Imply that they are stupid, worthless? "So-and-so's daughter ran off with a tout. Imagine! A TOUT!" "So and so was left by her husband, who impregnated the mboch. Yes, indeed, a stupid mboch!" Those attitudes are being interrogated this election. Wanjiku has discovered the Empire's Achilles' heel: the numbers. As long as democracy is about votes, Waititu is it.

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Very well said, Waitutu needs to have a creed that resonates with the masses such as "We the Poor", and is succeeding at making the whole campaign to be an issue of the poor versus the mido and upper class.

[quote=washiku]Anybody in the house scared of YT2?

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Good one