SV: {UAH} Presidential debate pushes opposition to a respectable broader horizon!

Hallå,

IT IS NOT JUST THE LEADER ISSUE AT A GENERAL ELECTIONS. Sometimes, one is conditioned to humility if he or she is far sighted enough.

I am talking about the disparity of parliamentary mandates and that of local elections.

I guess whoever wins is going to have to deal with that stern reality unless the party gets a comfortable majority.

This situation compells humility. Besides there is the issue of protection "acquired comforts" which does not allow for much elbowroom.

I appears to me that Col Besigye is condition to trade mildly to make for future dialogue.

Noc'la gaumoy

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Den måndag, 1 februari 2016 21:57 skrev 'rahimu jabendo' via Ugandans at Heart (UAH) Community <ugandans-at-heart@googlegroups.com>:

Mbabazi should have expected such questions to come up and should have rehearsed a sensible answer. I can't believe he went 'aphasic'-totally mum, then quickly conjuring a point of order as if this was parliament! Just went to prove this is the hog-wash status-quo he is promoting. Then he lied. He lied openly about something that is on the record. His threats on teachers when he was Prime Minister. He should get out of his stupid shell and 'smear' everything on his former boss. He should have instead said: "In the government that I served, we all took orders from one person. Now that I am free and I have never been President, things can move". His PR machine should style up and anticipate that shit, otherwise his answer to that stingy round was an embarrassment

Besigye's approach was fantastic. He focused on attacking the status quo! His message was consistent with no dillydallying. He could not hide his disdain for M7. He answered the 'attacking question' without flip flopping - "The 'L' and the State are the one and the same. There are some pple who are mistaken that u can separate them, you can't stupid? If u want to change the state, you have to change the L". He only needs to control his anger, which he should not show in public

Biraro really knows how to answer question but he does not sell. Other candidates should learn from him.The best way to debate is to make points. Get rhetorical but logical talking points and talk about them with passion. I should teach these guys how to make a pitch.


Debate was clearly won by KB: he was consistent on how his thinking contrasts with the status quo. Biraaro was the best at putting an agenda and points forward. JPAM was terribly sloppy and lot a lot of time searching his brains - plus he failed to disentangle himself properly from the status quo. He resurrected towards the end. He looked the most tired of them all! JPAM however had the best style for the opening statement - always start a pitch with a story - a story that resonates with the context

On 17 January 2016 at 01:58, georges colot <kkolokolo.george@gmail.com> wrote:

The world watched and admired the debate in Kampala. It was a great curtain raiser to new heights for a country where dictaotorship has always been wrongly regarded as an honour to the nation, and therefore somewhat tolerated by some powers.... But since yesterday Friday ( 15/01/2016 ) things are now smartly seen from a new angle. And the millions  of people all over the world who followed or have got news about the Ugandan debate are all one in expressing full satisfaction to the event. Many have gone further to praise the seven candidates who dared their courage for the great show! I'm sure the Uganda elders forum as well as the Inter-religious council who basically initiated the project, and the UNDP, some NGOs, and Ford foundation who funded it must now be very happy with its success! The debate was a real triumph for the country! And candidate Museveni's absence has to a big extent been seen as something equivalent to lack of respect to the programme and its organizers who had the sympathy of the entire population. This absence however, in spite of somehow spoiling for Besigye who would have used the opportunity to throw the rhetoric of a politician to Museveni, was a blessing for the opposition and its message of a peaceful transition of power.... Observers now feel that the debate successfully showed what Uganda would look without Museveni! And this has destroyed Museveni's regular thinking that without him nothing can move in the nation. The debate therefore showed how Ugandans have potential to produce a high calibre of democratically-minded leaders with very sharp ambition to do good for the country! In the eyes of much of the international opinion the incumbecy was on Friday proved shaky and no longer the ever pretended invincible one!

Many observers have totally disagreed with what NRM deputy spokesman, Ofwono Opondo, said after the debate that Museveni won through his absence because all participating candidates couldn't articulate issues correctly.....! Museveni's personal issues or the general issues the candidates and the population in general have throughout brought to surface and for which solutions are systematically demanded? The debate touched on the issues required by Part I programme (of the debate) and things were okay in general! They even expressed the need to work together to fight electoral malpractices, a thing where they have the full backing of the European Community observers' team and several NGOs who are now requesting for a very thourough look in the acute question of the one million crime preventers whose action may lead to civil conflict if not severely checked! They all belong to NRM as a party and their presence anticipates events of bad omen for the country as they don't have the blessing of the opposition and the population in general! Hon Mr Mbabazi has given a severe warning on this and he is proved correct in his assessment!

The post debate events will prove crucially meaningful in many aspects. The opposition is said to have pocketed that special key needed to enter in the realm of the undecided and the indifferent pathetic voters. Outright Mbabazi, for example, was able to address a record crowd rally in Jinja today Saturday. As if what VOA has prophesied of his chances of beating the incumbent are now a true prophesy in the making! Anyway, the opposition has just got to build together, forgetting inner quarrels, and the masses will follow them. No matter what others are planning .....! The debate proved thje opposition to be one on the essential thing regarding patriotism and the yearn to fight for the people!

Good debate that tried to open new avenues for the ideal of the nation!

Congs to the debaters, the organizers, the public, and our now well known media personnel, positively present in all corners of our national life! Hats off to the international observers who saw much in yesterday's Part I of the great  historic debate!

G.H.K.

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