A doomsday awaiting President Mills? Be the Judge (Part II)

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Apart from the obvious negative and positive responses to the questions raised in my article, the comments expressed by readers also showed other leanings.

3. TITLES GIVEN TO THE COMMENTS

All the responses had specific titles that had a bearing on the actual comments themselves as passed. Peculiarly, the tone of these titles didn’t diverge in any way from that of the contents of the comments. A negative title corresponded with a negative comment and vice versa.

A doomsday awaiting President Mills? Be the Judge (Part I)

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

In response to an article (“How will you remember President Mills?”) that I wrote, and which was published by the online media on Friday, January 6, 2012, many readers spontaneously made random comments that I thought shouldn’t go unnoticed. 

I. therefore, set out to do a qualitative analysis of those random comments to throw more light on the public perception of President Mills, especially as we approach the major electioneering campaign season for Election 2012.

Mine is not an opinion poll nor is it intended to be viewed as anything empirical. It is just an attempt to assess President Mills’ estimation in the eyes of those who “respond” to anything said or written about him.

South Africa’s ANC teaches NDC lessons in party building

Monday, January 9, 2012

It might not be for nothing that the South African government invited former President Jerry Rawlings and the government of Ghana to participate in activities marking the centenary of the African National Congress (ANC). Whether he was invited in his private capacity or not, Rawlings will definitely be representing the interests of the country as its former President whose party is in power. Both the ANC and the NDC are the products of “positive defiance” against the status quo, and Rawlings’ participation is in place.

One may not want to question the rationale behind the separate invitation to the Government of Ghana to participate in the celebration too. After all, such an event couldn’t be genuinely completed without the involvement of Ghana in it. The records reveal how much Ghana contributed to the liberation struggle in South Africa and the other countries under oppressive colonial rule in the 1960s (Namibia, Mozambique, etc.) in the reign of the Great Osagyefo Dr. Nkrumah.

How will you remember President Mills?

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Regardless of the close-shave victory with which President Mills entered office, he is still in his element, distinguishing himself as the most tolerant President we’ve so far had. 

Despite the open bad-mouthing and pointed affront to his authority and personality, he has refused to use the vast powers at his disposal to prove where naked power lies (contrary to what some of his predecessors did to provide the template by which Ghanaians construct the office of the Head of State). You know what I am alluding to here.

In Ghana politics, hard words toughen skins

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

It is common knowledge that Ghanaian politics is heavily infested with insults, especially following the proliferation of the mass media and prevalence of the somehow unfettered exercise of the freedom of expression engendered by our 4^th Republican constitutional democracy. I am guilty of it; you are guilty of it; everybody else is probably guilty of it too.

Do you remember how an opponent of President Mills once labeled him as a “chamber pot”? If you do, then, take it as the microcosm of the widespread fetid politics of insults going on. Worse insults are known to have been hurled at others just because they dare indulge in national politics.

When fetish priests know in advance the winner of the 2012 elections…

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Indeed, politics has seeped so deep into our national fabric that fetish priests can now predict the outcome of the 2012 elections, clearly eleven months before they are held. One may think that the spiritual powers of such fetish priests are limitless.

Oh, how I wish these fetish priests and their counterparts in other religions claiming to be God’s Messengers can use their spiritual powers to provide the cure for the general malaise that is destroying Ghanaians and the country! 

Can any of them give us the incontrovertible clue to help us arrest the murderers of the Ya-Naa and all others as well as those behind the missing 77 parcels of cocaine under the Kufuor government? Or any of the major problems that our governments over the years have failed to solve? We are itching for answers.

Does President Mills have advisors at all?

Sunday, January 1, 2012

More often than not, some government functionaries and NDC fanatics have glibly said that President Mills will win the 2012 elections. Some have been impudent enough to say that he will do so “hands-down.”

Whenever I hear any open declaration to that effect, I shudder. Considering many glaring instances that don’t redound to the President’s image (and his government’s performance) so far, I wonder what justifies that sort of overly optimistic stance and the motivation for the accompanying public utterances.