Former President Rawlings Interview On BBC And Ghana's Democracy

RE: If you haven't, Read this Rawlings Interview‏
From: FELIX DIAWUOH (fad57@msn.com)
Sent: Tue 7/14/09 2:49 PM
To: npp-politics@googlegroups.com

Eric,

Thank you for bringing this news to our attention. I have posted the link to the full text of the interview below. The more we hear from the P/NDC's former and present leaders, the more we realize the importance of of the need to give our full support to help NPP regain power in 2012. Some harm may be done to Ghana in the next 4 years by the NDC Party, but Ghana is worth fighting for. Elections always have the unexpected consequences, a price we pay for democratic process. Please compare this former President Rawlings' interview transcript with that of the former President Kufour's which was also posted up here less than a week ago.

I hope President Obama will be able to see the on-going configuration of alliances between these self-acclaimed revolutionary or progressive Governments, being Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea, Iran etc, etc.. They would abuse the very democratic process which brought them to power, then later deny same democratic freedom to their citizens while blaming other Governments.. These Governments and all terrorist groups use their anti-West/U.S/Israel rhetoric as their unifying slogan. They use the blaming game as common propaganda tool to entrench themselves in power and get away with their own Human Rights abuses and bad governance. The only problem is that President Obama believe in their political phisolosophy and rhetoric as he has been apologizing to them on behalf of his country, U.S.

The good news is that, Ghana's former President Rawlings who is now out with such distorted statements on our democratic achievement in Ghana is helping to re-activate the opposition to his prevous and the new Administration of the P/NDC by the Ghanaian public. The Ghanaian electorate is beginning to realize that the black spots on the leopard's skin are indelible even when painted over to look like a sheep skin.

http://www.modernghana.com/news/226920/1/interview-rawlings-speaks-to-bbcs-komla-dumor-on-t.html

As the people of Honduras were right to prevent their former President, Manuel Zelaya, to take their country on the same distorted democratic path, so are Ghanaians realizing the fight before us right now to stop the New Rawlings and his new NDC's Atta-Mills Government from recreating a distorted vision for Ghana.

Felix A. Diawuoh
Colorado Springs, CO

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From: ebottah@hotmail.com
To: npp-politics@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: If you haven't, Read this Rawlings Interview
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:07:28 -0400

The man Rawlings is a fool. To him electoral wins that is "unstolen" are those won by NDC. That can come from only the mouth of a fool and undemocratic mindset. To say that democacy was at its best and highest form during the PNDC era sums up everything. How on earth such a fool got to rule Ghana for 19 years is the greatest mystery of the century. Ghanaians are too stoic for their own good.

Eric