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Posted By Klarissa 1 year, 1 month ago in NewsWhy did Barack Obama, in 2006, as a member of the United States Senate, go to Kenya at taxpayer expense, and campaign for Raila Odinga.
Odinga lost the election.
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The deaths in Kenya came as opposition supporters fought with police firing tear gas and live ammunition.
They were protesting the government's announcement Sunday that voters had re-elected President Mwai Kibaki with 51.3 percent of the vote, compared with 48.7 percent for Raila Odinga, the opposition leader.
Valley town of Naivasha on Sunday, where the Red Cross said there were reports of people being burned alive in their homes.
The Associated Press said more than 300 people were dead amid reports of horrific attacks, including the torching of a church where people who had sought refuge were burned alive.
Kenyan government officials said at least 209 people had so far been killed and around 75,000 forced to flee their homes as gangs of machete-wielding young men roamed the streets.
Witnesses told CNN Monday that they had seen widespread violence in the Nairobi slum of Kibera as angry Odinga supporters set fire to buildings. Police attempted to hold them back with tear gas and water cannon, witnesses said.
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Klarissa1 year, 1 month ago
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Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) lost the election.
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Hundreds of opponents of the Orange Democratic Movement supporters died in fighting sparked by last month's presidential election, which Odinga's supporters insist was rigged to ensure Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki's re-election.
Bloody street battles often have involved machetes. The government says 600 to 650 people have been killed, while the opposition says at least 1,000 have died. The Kenyan Red Cross Society puts the number at 863.
More than 200,000 people have been displaced in the turmoil, according to the Red Cross.-
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hyperbola1 year, 1 month ago
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Actually Nixie, Obama visiting Kenya and speaking out in favor of democracy in a country recovering from a dictatorship and with enormous corruption problems is highly commendable.
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You favor corruption and stolen elections by oligarchs Nixie? Is that what you propose for the US?
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Candida1 year, 1 month ago
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Klarissa,
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Aren't you guys getting tired of posting this same B.S. over and over again? These are not facts about Obama; this is all just innuendo.
Yes, there was violence in Kenya, but Obama was there in 2006, and the election was at the end of 2007. He had nothing to do with it.-
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antibrainwasher1 year, 1 month ago
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Obviously propeller is scammed and gamed by the con artists of the right wing shills paid by propeller and AOL/Time warner, the right wing biased facist massive media empire.
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No they are not tired of the same old tin foil hat propanda projectile vomit repugnicon lies and insane slanders. They are filthy pigs, and pigs like to wallow and rout around in putrid crap.
its tha same people, every day, promoting these non stories to the top of propeller, with the assistance of the republian shill moderators, gaming the system with false reads and props.
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hyperbola1 year, 1 month ago
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Well Klarissa, you reach new lows of corruption, vicousness and desperation. You should tell us whether you supported the corruption in Kenya and whether you support corruption in the US. You should also tell us whether you think Americans are stupid enough to fall for this kind of lie.
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Corruption again at the forefront of Kenya's presidential election
NAIROBI, Kenya: Corruption is part of daily life in Kenya, from crooked cops demanding bribes to lawmakers who drain public coffers for personal gain.
Five years after President Mwai Kibaki swept into office on promises to stamp out graft, the issue is once again at the forefront as Kibaki tries to win re-election Thursday in the closest race in Kenya's history.
"Kibaki gave people high hopes five years ago, but the government failed to get rid of corruption," Steve Mugo, a taxi driver in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, said Wednesday. "The police are still corrupt, they're all corrupt."....
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/12/26/africa/A...-
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hyperbola1 year, 1 month ago
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Kenya: Corruption Contributed to Post-Election Crisis
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Former Ethics and Governance permanent secretary John Githongo has said there was a direct link between corruption and the post-election crisis in Kenya.
Mr Githongo said "conspicuous consumption of public resources by the leaders" had contributed to the perception, especially among the poor, that they had been excluded from the nation's development agenda. He said this was the main reason people went to the streets to try and get justice....
http://allafrica.com/stories/200808220069.html
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hyperbola1 year, 1 month ago
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Well Klarissa, from this we have to assume that you are in favor of stolen elections by corrupt oligarchs. Do you advocate the same in the US?
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Kenya
Election fraud and violence
While European tourists are sunbathing at the beaches of the Indian Ocean, the country is shattered by violence between the supporters of the opposition presidential candidate, Raila Odinga, and those of President Kibaki, the police and the military. The Kenyan presidential elections, on 27 December, caused the biggest riots the country has witnessed since the fall of the former dictator, Daniel arap-Moi...
In 2002, Kibaki was elected successor of former dictator Daniel arap-Moi who had ruled the country for 20 years. Many Kenyans, who longed for democratisation, less corruption and a rise of living standards, pinned their hopes on Kibaki. However, the situation for the majority did not improve. Only a small elite, surrounding the president and those controlling the commanding heights of the economy, benefited form the economic upswing, which was constantly at around 6% per year, during the last six years. The majority of Kenyans still live below the poverty line. Kibaki did nothing to stop proliferating corruption. A big part of the national budget is going to the private pockets of ministers and leading officials; the head of the national anti-corruption authority had to flee to England to protect his life. “The government’s policies in the last years were not orientated on improving the living standard of the people, but to support the economy which guarantees that only the small upper class is profiteering,” stated Walter Schicho, professor at the Africa-institute at the University of Vienna. As well as this, the Kenyan government is conducting “hidden intervention” into the Somali civil war and supports Ethiopian troops occupying Somalia....-
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hyperbola1 year, 1 month ago
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The election fraud was obvious – for Kibaki’s constituency a turnout of 99% were reported (which is nearly impossible). In another constituency, 115% of the people went to vote - another clear evidence for the massive election fraud. Unrealistically, thousands of people only voted in the presidential elections and not in the parliamentary and local elections, which were running parallel. This led to the situation where Kibaki was sworn in as president yet his party has only a small minority in the parliament, where the ODM holds the majority. It makes more sense to assume that ballot cards for Kibaki were secretly added to rather then thinking of a big confusion within the voters. Even the chairman of the national election-commission said he did not know who won the election. Later, he was put under pressure from supporters of Kibaki, and was forced to announce an election ‘victory’. The fact that Kibaki has stolen Kenyans’ right to elect their government was the main cause for riots.
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Probably the most disastrous legacy of the Kibaki-government is the intensification of ethnic conflicts in Kenya. Kibaki, an ethnic Kikuyu, gave higher posts in the public sector to candidates from his own tribe and public assignments usually went to companies owned by Kikuyu. That led to anger amongst the majority of the population against the leading figures of the Kikuyu, who have been privileged since colonial times. Governments over the last decades boosted these tensions, using “divide and rule” policies.
http://socialistworld.net/eng/2008/01/23kenyaa.htm...
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Klarissa1 year, 1 month ago
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We have to have HONEST voter registrations.
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CNN - updated 8:04 p.m. EST, Sun December 30, 2007
Riots erupt after Kenya's president re-elected
Kenya's government has suspended all live television broadcasts as violence engulfed Nairobi following the re-election of incumbent president Mwai Kibaki.
A senior official from the Kenyan Television Network said it had been ordered to stop live broadcasts as rioters went on the rampage.
Kenyan television had earlier broadcast an address from the chairman of the electoral commission announcing that Kibaki had narrowly defeated Raila Odinga, of the opposition Orange Democratic Movement, winning by slightly more than 231,000 votes of the more than 8.9 million votes cast.
A top media executive said on condition of anonymity that the decision to suspend broadcasts had "taken back democratic process by 15 years."
Police denied there had been violence following the announcement of the result, which was contested by Odinga's party who accused the government of "doctoring" the count.-
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hyperbola1 year, 1 month ago
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We also have to have honest election officials. In the US there is far greater evidence of vote rigging and suppression of voters than of problems with voter registration. It seems Klarissa that you are in favor of voting fraud. Why are you so afraid of americans voting? Can't win an election without fraud?
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ACORN Smear is Effort to Cover Up Massive GOP Push to Undermine 2008 Elections Through Coast-to-Coast Vote Suppression!
... The ongoing Republican attack on the lawful voter registration efforts of ACORN is a "desperate smokescreen maneuver" masking an extensive coast-to-coast GOP push to disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of voters through a wide range of vote suppression tactics, according to Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, former lieutenant governor of the state of Maryland and a member of the board of advisors of NoVoterLeftBehind.net ( http://www.NoVoterLeftBehind.net).
Urging concerned Americans to get involved through NoVoterLeftBehind.net, Kennedy Townsend said: "The attack on the voter registration efforts of ACORN may go down in the record books as the ultimate case of the 'dirty' pot calling the 'clean' kettle black. ACORN is being savaged for doing its duty to openly self-report all cases where there may be any kind of issue with specific voter registration forms. By contrast, the GOP is skulking around out of the public eye across the nation in a sub rosa attempt to use a host of outrageous and desperate vote suppression tactics to steal the election."
She added: "For every potentially problematic ACORN voter registration form that will never result in anyone casting an illegitimate vote, there are literally hundreds of voters who the GOP will go to any lengths to keep out of the voting booth. This attack on ACORN is a sad and deeply cynical tactic coming from a party that seems to have concluded that they can't win the election on their own, so they have to prevent the other side from voting." ...-
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hyperbola1 year, 1 month ago
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ACORN has come under attack in Nevada, Missouri, Ohio and elsewhere by Republicans attempting to block the many thousands of primarily low-income citizens that ACORN has registered. Under the law, ACORN must report irregular registrations that result from its process. The GOP is seizing on these entirely routine and voluntary reports as "fraudulent" filings, when in fact this is not the case at all. In nearly every state, ACORN is required to turn in all completed applications, even the ones we know to be problematic, and then to identify the ones involving possible concerns.
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The ACORN situation pales in comparison the outright vote suppression efforts underway nationwide:
-- Misinforming college students in Colorado, Virginia and South Carolina about their right to vote. For example, the Republican clerk of El Paso County, Colo., informed local students: '. . . if your parents
still claim you on their income tax returns, and they file that return
in a state other than Colorado, you are not eligible to register to vote
or vote in Colorado.' The same tactic is being used in other states in sometimes even starker ways to keep young people from voting.....
AND MANY MANY MORE EXAMPLES....
http://www.propeller.com/story/2008/10/15/acorn-sm...
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Klarissa1 year, 1 month ago
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Odinga's party accused the government of "doctoring" the results.
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Odinga claimed the official counts from 48 out of a total 210 constituencies were flawed, saying that around 300,000 votes were in dispute.
He also introduced an official from the commission who said he witnessed vote-rigging by staff at the commission's headquarters.
The official said he had been asked to sign off returns from polling stations from Kenya's eastern coastal region that he claimed had been deliberately altered by commission staff.-
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hyperbola1 year, 1 month ago
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Boy Klarissa, you are really scraping the bottom of the barrel with this kind of slop. Jerome Corsi of all people! These "stories" have been known to be lies for ages. Why are you re-cycling therm now? Afraid you can't win an election without lying to Americans? If you are just so gullible and ignorant that you post such things, this site contains some links where you could start to educate yourself instead of chanting slogans fed to you by corrupt politicians.
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Jihad fantasies of Obama, Dick Morris and Kenya
.... In the Muslim-rumor laboratories of the Internet, stories have circulated for months of an evil pact--not between Obama and the Wall Street donors you would think to look at, but between Obama and Raila Odinga, Kenya's goateed socialist opposition leader and Obama's fellow Luo. In 2007, a disputed election brought on riots and murder, which Corsi would like to blame on the Democratic senator.
Odinga, as it turns out, is an Anglican. And his promise to Muslims to blanket Kenya in Islamic sharia law appears only in a document that seems, at first glance, to be a shoddy forgery created by his enemies.
... DURING A 2006 TRIP TO KENYA, the story goes, Obama had campaigned for Odinga, his fellow Luo, so ardently that an government spokesman (representing the corrupt Kibaki regime) had accused the senator of being a "stooge." Celeste Davis, an influential missionary in Africa who has been profiled in the Wall Street Journal, is credited with an e-mail missive that tries to link the Kenya riots to Obama's alleged true nature as an Islamist who plans to bring on a "race war" akin to the tribal fighting in Kenya. Davis also claimed the senator gave $1 million to help his evil Muslim cousin campaign for a power-sharing agreement. And on Sean Hannity's site, someone has written: "This puts both Obama and Odinga right up there in a pantheon with Idi Amin!"
Which would put George W. Bush and Condoleeza Rice up there, too; the president has backed the power-sharing agreement between Odinga and his rival, incumbent Mwai Kibaki, who has become a controversial figure for allowing his constituents to be renditioned to Guantanamo Bay and various abusive countries.-
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hyperbola1 year, 1 month ago
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It turns out that the supposed $1 million "Friends From Senator BO" donation has been debunked by Snopes. And in a delightful twist, if you want to blame someone for planning the Odinga campaign, you are better off blaming Dick Morris, the campaign consultant and prolific author of Jerome Corsi-esque books about wicked liberals. He was part of the Odinga campaign team, Reuters has reported.
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What about Odinga's shadowy promise to enslave Kenyans under the full weight of sharia Islam? Though this claim has been repeated in shoddy story by Daniel Johnson in The New York Sun and elsewhere in the Right Web, the muckraking site Wikileaks cuts through the story pretty quick. It lets us compare two versions of a "Memorandum of Understanding" signed by candidate Odinga.
One of them is a nuanced document pledging to work harder to protect Muslim Kenyans from renditions.
The other (download both) is a nutty and crude version of the first one. Someone has inserted Muslim prayers and "inShallahs" all over the place. There are explicit orders to make every child attend a madrassa, recognize sharia as "the only true law" in some regions, outlaw Christian TV, ban liquor, reject "heathens and Zionists." Odinga, an Anglican, is cast in the world of this zany document as a crypto-Muslim "who recognizes Islam as the only true religion."
It comes across as the Kenyan answer to the Michelle Obama "Whitey Tape."
And what about Obama's supposedly outrageous 2006 appearance in Kenya? I imagine that hundreds of Corsi fans are Googling "Obama + Odinga" tonight and deducing, from the sheer volume of nonsense clogging the top Google results, that the senator was down there advocating something luridly tribal and alien. A different picture comes across in coverage of Obama's visits to Kenya in the conservative Economist or the mainstream CBS, which find Obama pleading for the violence to end and declaring that "ethnic-based tribal politics have to stop."
No mention of any hidden jihadist thrust behind it all, which would be a secret safe with Dick Morris.
http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Jihad_fantasies_of_Obama...
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hyperbola1 year, 1 month ago
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This simply shows how corrupt the State Department has become in the Bush administration. Basically the bushie zioncons think the corrupt Kenyan leadership will help them control Ethiopia and Somalia.
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Kenya's presidential election should be re-run
After rioting that has taken around 350 lives and driven at least 100,000 people from their homes, Kenya's opposition leader has made a sensible suggestion for defusing the greatest crisis faced by the country since independence.
Raila Odinga, head of the Orange Democratic Movement, has proposed the formation of an interim government whose sole purpose would be to prepare for a re-run of last week's rigged presidential election within three months. His idea deserves the wholehearted support of the United States, Britain and its European Union partners.
The fraudulent tallying of votes, attested by EU observers, is such that nothing less will spare Kenya indefinite political instability and economic decline....
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=...
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nostalgia1 year, 1 month ago
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Combine this video with:
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Oct 7, 2008
US anti-Obama book author faces Kenya deportation: officials
The American author of a best-selling book blasting White House hopeful Barack Obama on Tuesday faced deportation from Kenya after being detained by security officials.
Corsi was to detail how Obama helped Raila Odinga -- now Kenya's prime minister -- in his 2007 presidential bid, which he claimed was to exploit "anti-Kikuyu sentiments," according to the WorldNet Daily for which he writes.
The Kikuyus are Kenya's most populous tribe and to which President Mwai Kibaki belongs. Kenya plunged into weeks of ethnic violence after Odinga charged that Kibaki had unfairly won the December 2007 polls.
In a press release distributed earlier this week, Corsi announced he would "expose deep secret ties between between US Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama and a section of the Kenyan government leaders."
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hu8BtEbd1ZT7FB...-
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hyperbola1 year, 1 month ago
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Are you really that ignorant nostalgia? Or are you really that corrupt and vicious? Frankly it seems a good idea that America support democracy rather than corruption and human rights violations. You are against democracy?
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Kenya: Why The Election Was Worth Stealing
Let us not mince words: President Mwai Kibaki and his ruling party stole Kenya’s presidential election. But that’s not all they stole: Kibaki’s clique is steeped in high-level corruption. If they stole the election, it may well have been so that they can keep on stealing the country blind.
Other governments do not publicly condemn this double steal. Understandably: they could hardly retain diplomatic entrée with President Kibaki by naming him for what he is -- the Godfather of a gang of thieves. So the European Union criticizes electoral "irregularities." Britain’s Prime Minister helpfully suggests new elections. The United States Assistant Secretary of State for Africa urges Kibaki and the real winner of the election – opposition leader Raila Odinga – to work things out. And Ghana’s President John Kufour is in Nairobi to mediate on behalf of the African Union.
Blessings on all of them. With hundreds of Kenyans killed in the two weeks since the election, and a quarter of a million displaced by the violence, the country desperately needs a peaceful solution.
But the world should be under no illusions about what really happened in Kenya’s December 27 elections, or why. If we misread the crisis as just another outbreak of African tribal rivalries, or an electoral dustup between competing politicians, we will miss the underlying realities that threaten to destabilize what had been a relative island of tranquility in Africa.
There are few better case studies than Kenya to show the links between integrity in government, electoral democracy, and human rights. Unfortunately, Kenya teaches this lesson in the negative: it reveals how corruption leads to electoral fraud which, in turn, leads to massive human rights violations....
http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/content.aspx?aud...
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nostalgia1 year, 1 month ago
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I've only seen this reported in the Washington Times:
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Mark Hyman
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Obama's Kenya ghosts
About 50 parishioners were locked into the Assemblies of God church before it was set ablaze. They were mostly women and children. Those who tried to flee were hacked to death by machete-wielding members of a mob numbering 2,000.
The 2008 New Year Day atrocity in the Kenyan village Eldoret, about 185 miles northwest of Nairobi, had all the markings of the Rwanda genocide of a decade earlier.
By mid-February 2008, more than 1,500 Kenyans were killed. Many were slain by machete-armed attackers. More than 500,000 were displaced by the religious strife. Villages lay in ruin. Many of the atrocities were perpetrated by Muslims against Christians.
The violence was led by supporters of Raila Odinga, the opposition leader who lost the Dec. 27, 2007, presidential election by more than 230,000 votes. Odinga supporters began the genocide hours after the final election results were announced Dec. 30. Mr. Odinga was a member of Parliament representing an area in western Kenya, heavily populated by the Luo tribe, and the birthplace of Barack Obama's father.
Odinga had the backing of Kenya's Muslim community heading into the election. For months he denied any ties to Muslim leaders, but fell silent when Sheik Abdullahi Abdi, chairman of the National Muslim Leaders Forum, appeared on Kenya television displaying a memorandum of understanding signed on Aug. 29, 2007, by Mr. Odinga and the Muslim leader. Mr. Odinga then denied his denials.
Initially, Mr. Odinga was not the favored opposition candidate to stand in the 2007 election against President Mwai Kibaki, who was seeking his second term. However, he received a tremendous boost when Sen. Barack Obama arrived in Kenya in August 2006 to campaign on his behalf. Mr. Obama denies that supporting Mr. Odinga was the intention of his trip, but his actions and local media reports tell otherwise.
Mr. Odinga and Mr. Obama were nearly inseparable throughout Mr. Obama's six-day stay. The two traveled together throughout Kenya and Mr. Obama spoke on behalf of Mr. Odinga at numerous rallies. In contrast, Mr. Obama had only criticism for Kibaki. He lashed out against the Kenyan government shortly after meeting with the president on Aug. 25. "The [Kenyan] people have to suffer over corruption perpetrated by government officials," Mr. Obama announced.
"Kenyans are now yearning for change," he declared. The intent of Mr. Obama's remarks and actions was transparent to Kenyans - he was firmly behind Mr. Odinga.
http://www.washtimes.com/news/2008/oct/12/obamas-k...-
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Nixie1 year, 1 month ago
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"About 50 parishioners were locked into the Assemblies of God church before it was set ablaze. They were mostly women and children. Those who tried to flee were hacked to death by machete-wielding members of a mob numbering 2,000."
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hyperbola1 year, 1 month ago
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Excellent, the Kibaki government was famous for its corruption and human rights violations.
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Kenya: Why The Election Was Worth Stealing
.... Let us not mince words: President Mwai Kibaki and his ruling party stole Kenya’s presidential election. But that’s not all they stole: Kibaki’s clique is steeped in high-level corruption. If they stole the election, it may well have been so that they can keep on stealing the country blind....
... Early on he named John Githongo, leader of Kenya’s chapter of Transparency International, to head the government’s Office of Governance and Ethics. This was a hopeful sign: Githongo is a credible, highly respected figure.
But by 2005, frustrated by Kibaki’s failure to enact real reforms. Githongo quit. After his life was repeatedly threatened, he fled to asylum in Britain.
Meanwhile corruption in Kenya went from bad to worse. Transparency International’s 2006 Corruption Perceptions Index gave Kenya an abysmal rating – 142 out of 163 countries surveyed. The 2006 Kenya Bribery Index found that corruption overall had increased by about 20% since the first year of Kibaki’s administration.
Even from a distance, Githongo kept a watchful eye. In 2006 he issued a report documenting that corruption had reached top levels of Kibaki’s government. Several cabinet ministers were forced to resign. Kibaki’s Vice President was implicated as well.
How did the government follow up? By firing the chief investigator of the country’s Anti-Corruption Commission, just as he was preparing a report for Kibaki detailing the extent of corruption by senior ministers.
The December 27 election threatened to end the gravy train. Pre-election polls showed opposition leader Raila Odinga well ahead of Kibaki. In the parliamentary elections held the same day, Odinga’s party won three times as many seats as Kibaki’s. Fourteen of Kibaki’s ministers, as well as his Vice President, failed to hold their seats.
Yet even as his party took a drubbing, official results claimed that Kibaki somehow survived the slaughter. But not credibly. ...
http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/content.aspx?aud...
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Nixie1 year, 1 month ago
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That may be the scariest thing about Obama yet. And that's saying a lot.
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Did the one guy really say that Obama was Odingo's puppet? What the heck does that mean? Does Odingo have plans for the US?
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GehlLady1 year, 1 month ago
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The first news I remember seeing about Odinga didn't have Obama connected to it, I can't remember for sure, but I think it was CNN. The video they had was enough to turn my stomach. It's only recently I've seen the youtube vids of Obama on stage with Odinga campaigning. In my mind, it's more of the election rigging in our country by misnamed news organizations.
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ISITJUSTME1 year, 1 month ago
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Stop it. Stop repeating this crap. Seek knowledge for yourself. You might find out that Odinga is not a communist or muslim. You might find out what he stands for, a democratic way of life for his people. This mindless commentary by people like Hyman needs to be checked and checked again. Anyway all this violence came after the Dec 07 election, an election the Odinga rightfully thought that was stolen from him. Most independent observers concurred with him.
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He was once jailed for protesting Kenya's one party system. Here is his presidential website.
http://www.raila07.com/
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HateKoolAid1 year, 1 month ago
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Haven't you people ever heard the phrase "Guilt by association"?? Do people even know what it means?? Say one of your high school classmates was convicted of murder, according to you people, you have been known to associate with murderers and either have denied it or worse, lied about it.
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PinkyPie1 year, 1 month ago
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If you hang out with undesirables and criminals you will be tarred with the same brush. Bad choices and bad associations go hand in hand. If you hang with undesirables you will end up with the authorities at your door asking questions.
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Endoscopy1 year, 1 month ago
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Why do you try to play down what he has done. He went and campaigned for this thug. not a passing visit.
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With Ayres he set up groups that had Ayres revolution style ideas about education with a lot of money from the Chicago Annenberg Challenge where he wrote the checks. They also funded ACORN with money as well. He also worked with Ayres on the Woodes foundation doing some of the same thing. Again not acquaintances but spending money with the same point of view.
With Rezco he had a long standing relationship since before he went to Harvard. When he came back he worked for the firm that Rezco hired. Rezco helped him into politics and mysteriously the opponents were disqualified because of not enough signatures. Just coincidence? He wrote letters for Rezco and got a sweetheart deal buying the house brokered by Rezco. Obama fought bipartisan effort to clean up corruption in Chicago. Thus helping Rezco and Daley. Again not acquaintances but working with and for Rezco and the Chicago machine.
Then there is Rev. Wright. The friend and mentor for 20 years that preached black racism and anti American sermons. Not an acquaintance but the closeness of a friend and mentor.
Then you rant about guilt by association like a classmate convicted of murder. These were not distant relationships but very close relationships that worked towards a common goal.
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HateKoolAid1 year, 1 month ago
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It's ironic that the Annenberg Foundation was created by Walter Annenberg a conservative republican and is now run by his widow Leonore, a McCain supporter. Also ironic is that Leonore doesn't seem to have any problems with donating money to the Annenberg Challange. She, to her credit, knows the difference between election year politics and reality.
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Tcaros1 year, 1 month ago
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Keep concentrating on the falsehoods.
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Obama did not "pal aournd with Ayers."
Obama is not responsible for every person that crossed his path.
What about Charles Keating? That is more relevant than any issue that you've brought up. Why did McCain help his former Navy Academy buddy rob the US Taxpayer?
Quit playing the "hate game."
I especially liked how Obama refuted all the claims publically during the debate. He did a fantastic job. McCain looked like a little kid.-
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Klarissa1 year, 1 month ago
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Meanwhile, on the other side of the table, Obama wasn't entirely forthcoming about his relationship with ACORN:
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Obama: The only involvement I've had with ACORN is, I represented them alongside the U.S. Justice Department in making Illinois implement a motor voter law that helped people get registered at DMVs.
He did, but that wasn't his only involvement.
He also worked closely with ACORN's Chicago office when he ran a Project Vote registration drive after law school, and Obama did some leadership training for Chicago ACORN.
The Woods Fund, where Obama served as a board member, gave grants to ACORN's Chicago branch; both organizations are concerned with disadvantaged populations in that city.
And during the primaries of this election, Obama's campaign paid upwards of $800,000 to the ACORN-affiliated Campaign Services Inc. for get-out-the-vote efforts (not voter registration).
Those services were initially misrepresented on the campaign's Federal Election Commission reports, an error that some find suspicious and others say is par for the course. ACORN's Chicago office and CSI have not been under investigation.
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memestryker1 year, 1 month ago
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And Fr. Pfleger (Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton's murder-inciting sidekick), leftist activities by the Joyce Foundation (he was on the board), his signing on to the U.N.'s anti-U.S. positions, his close ties to Soros' with his one-world dictatorship dream, and support of Bloomberg and his anti-constitution and vigilante activities, who'll change the law so he can serve a third term, and then change it back so no one else can!--but no one seems to even notice. Those scare me more than anything you've listed, endo.
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hyperbola1 year, 1 month ago
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Well here is one of our resident zioncons lying to Americans again. Why do you do it endo?
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Fact-Checking the Ayers Allegations: So Wrong, It’s “Pants on Fire” Wrong
For most of the election, Sen. John McCain ’s campaign has been somewhat subtle about trying to tie Sen. Barack Obama to the former ‘60s radical William Ayers. No longer. A 90-second Web ad released Oct. 8, 2008, features sinister music, side-by-side photographs of Obama and Ayers, and a series of dubious allegations about their past connections, including this one: “Ayers and Obama ran a radical education foundation together.”
... We’ll look at whether the foundation was radical. But first we have to grapple with whether Obama and Ayers ran it. Ayers “was never on the board of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge,” and he “never made a decision programmatically or had a vote,” Rolling said.
“He (Ayers) was at board meetings — which, by the way, were open — as a guest,” Rolling said. “That is not anything near Bill Ayers and Barack Obama running the Chicago Annenberg Challenge.”.....
Now, was the foundation radical?
Annenberg was a lifelong Republican and former ambassador to the United Kingdom under President Richard Nixon. His widow, Leonore, has endorsed McCain. Kurtz might just as plausibly have accused Obama and the foundation of “translating Annenberg’s conservatism into practice.”
Among the other board members who served with Obama were: Stanley Ikenberry, former president of the University of Illinois; Arnold Weber, former president of Northwestern University and assistant secretary of labor in the Nixon administration; Scott Smith, then publisher of the Chicago Tribune; venture capitalist Edward Bottum; John McCarter, president of the Field Museum; Patricia Albjerg Graham, former dean of the Harvard University Graduate School of Journalism, and a host of other mainstream folks.-
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myqwerty1 year, 1 month ago
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There was a letter from the president of Kenya floating around on eastandard.net that has now been taken down. Go figure. Hopefully it is in the archives somewhere.
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The letter stated that Obama was in Kenya on a fact finding mission and he had no right campaigning in an allied country and badmouthing the Kenyan government.
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Tcaros1 year, 1 month ago
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A hate campaign is when you bring up falsehoods in hopes of "stirring emotions" or playing on the fears of voters.
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Both McCain and Palin have been "called out" in the press for using falsehoods to stir hate.
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Klarissa1 year, 1 month ago
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"Obama said oil companies have "68 million acres that they currently have leased that they're not drilling."
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We've previously criticized him for similar statements, and it's still not true.
As we've pointed out, there is exploratory drilling being done on much of these lands, which are not yet producing oil.
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HateKoolAid1 year, 1 month ago
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"I'll stand with a passionate, angry man in the fight to resist socialism any day, every day".... Uh, you do know, it was your passionate,angry man who helped champion the biggest piece of socialistic legislation this country has ever seen, right??
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GehlLady1 year, 1 month ago
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Which one? No, I'm not. If you have credible information he has championed socialism I'd like to be able to look it up. I'll call him out as loudly as anyone if that is true, but it won't change my vote this cycle. Obamas record in Illinois is there for all to see, and it's not good. I don't agree with his stand on abortion, not just what he's said on the campaign trail, his support for the Freedom of Choice Act that removes any and all restrictions on abortion, that he has said will be a top priority. The reality of abortion is not what he and Donna Brazil say it is. It has become a method of birth control in place of other methods of birth control. That is wrong. Late term abortion is wrong, partial birth abortion is wrong. I personnaly don't advocate for all abortion to be banned, but as it's practiced now is infanticide.
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silvera1 year, 1 month ago
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All of you right wing lemmings would take time out to catch your breath. Quit gasping with mock indignation and check out the following link. You will see what a silly bunch of boobs you are. You have nothing of substance so you dispense this discredited and blatantly false nonsense.
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bruhaha1 year, 1 month ago
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Can't find anything truthful against Obama so you post yet another debunked anonymous email story. I'm not sure whether to be angry with you for posting this crap or to be sad for you that you actually believe what you post.
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dinjohn11 year, 1 month ago
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Obama did not take sides in Kenya:
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Tcaros1 year, 1 month ago
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McCain's supporteres are relying on "gimmicks" now.
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The gimmick is to falsely associate Obama with people who "crossed his path." The other gimmick was to use words that "play cute" to try and get a catch phrase.
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jpc2891 year, 1 month ago
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Obama has not been completely forthcoming (honest) about this matter just like he has not completely forthcoming (honest) about many other matters.
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During last night's debate Obama had the opportunity to be completely forthcoming about his associations with William Ayers and ACORN but he wasn't. During NBC's post-debate discussion, the panel agreed that Obama outright LIED about his association with Ayers and didn't divulge the full extent of his association with ACORN.
Additionally, as McCain pointed out, Obama broke his campaign promises (oral and written) to accept FEC funding for the general election and to debate him (McCain) anytime and anywhere.
There is no better example of 'Guilt by Association' or 'You are judged by the company you keep' other than Obama's repeated "Eight years of Bush's failed policies" association of McCain with Bush. Yet, Obama says it's negative/sleasy campaigning for McCain to associate him with Reverend Wright, TUCC, Ayers and/or ACORN -- hypocrite.
Last night's debate was just another example of why Obama isn't fit to be POTUS. The reason isn't Obama's associations or policies but, rather, the reason is his repeated (i.e., not just during last night's debate) self-demonstrated lack of honesty and trustworthyness.
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johnson06061 year, 1 month ago
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Please, I beg you. No more videos, no more drama!!!!
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The anti-Obama crowd makes an Independent like me wander
"how bad would a dictatorship really be??!"
It's an election! They come every 4 years. Keep your BS powder dry for next election. McCain is a big boy, blessed by God with his health, wealth, and a family who stands by him. Regardless who wins, Obama and McCain both will be fine. It's the ordinary smo like myself who may not survive
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antibrainwasher1 year, 1 month ago
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McCain dropped incindary napalm bombs from 10,000 feet on vietnamese villiages, hitting daycares and burning alive hundreds of children, then you murdering evangelical creationist psychopaths call him a hero.
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Where do all you repugnicons come from, are there that many delusional mental midgets in the remaining scum GOPers after anyone with half a brain bailed out after McSenile picked Caribu Barbie to be his "oh yes yes" girl.
You people should put on your tin foil hats, and sit with the flat earth creationists there in the compound with the alabama slave owners and poligimists and pedophiles.-
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antibrainwasher1 year, 1 month ago
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Can there be any doubt that propeller is scammed by tin foil hat wearing right wing repugnicoward shills paid by time warner/ AOL to promote their facist adgenda?
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Why is this story at the top of promoted stories?
Reminds one of the scamming the justice department with brown shirt republican evangelical lawyers. Its always partisanship first, then self promotion, then greed, then ignorance, then last of all,....county.
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ctwriter1 year, 1 month ago
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You people are so gullible! You assume, because you want to, that the allegation that Obama campaigned for Odingo is TRUE. It is false. Yes there was violence after the election, but Barack Obama never campaigned for Odinga. This was a lie perpetrated by a right wing hack writer (the same guy who wrote the Swift Boat book) who wrote a book full of lies to try to discredit Obama.
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Go to factcheck.org and get the facts:
"During a visit to Kenya in 2006, Obama and his wife, Michelle, arranged to take an AIDS test to publicly demonstrate the test's safety. While there, Obama spoke to the assembled crowd. Raila Odinga, one of the two candidates running for president, was on the stage when Obama spoke. (Jerome) Corsi concludes that the event constituted an endorsement of Odinga. He goes on to attribute all the violence in Kenya to an elaborate Odinga plot.
Corsi, however, offers no evidence that Obama actually did endorse Odinga. In fact, MSNBC reported that during that same trip, Obama also met with Mwai Kibaki, who was Odinga's opponent in that election, as well as with opposition leader Uhuru Kenyatta. And Human Rights Watch reported that both Odinga and Kibaki (or their supporters, anyway) had a hand in the violence that followed the election. (source factcheck.org)-
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Klarissa1 year, 1 month ago
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www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/12/obamas-ke...
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Initially, Mr. Odinga was not the favored opposition candidate to stand in the 2007 election against President Mwai Kibaki, who was seeking his second term. However, he received a tremendous boost when Sen. Barack Obama arrived in Kenya in August 2006 to campaign on his behalf. Mr. Obama denies that supporting Mr. Odinga was the intention of his trip, but his actions and local media reports tell otherwise.
Mr. Odinga and Mr. Obama were nearly inseparable throughout Mr. Obama's six-day stay. The two traveled together throughout Kenya and Mr. Obama spoke on behalf of Mr. Odinga at numerous rallies. In contrast, Mr. Obama had only criticism for Kibaki. He lashed out against the Kenyan government shortly after meeting with the president on Aug. 25. "The [Kenyan] people have to suffer over corruption perpetrated by government officials," Mr. Obama announced.-
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ETproductions1 year, 1 month ago
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Glad you asked.
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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/01/04/opinion/...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7175694.stm
But hey, I'm sure you guys can quickly cook up some obscure blog proving that Kibaki won if it supports your attempts at racist smears of Obama.
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VocalOp1 year, 1 month ago
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Hmm, I guess Republicans want to be sore losers. Oh, well. Strike three - so much for grumpy's experience. By the way I thought he said he was going to whip Obama's you-know-what? Look at that, already lying to you but you don't care. Poor little dolts.
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Klarissa1 year, 1 month ago
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http://africanpress.wordpress.com/2008/08/10/senat...
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However, the underlying (more important issues) are verifiably true. In August and September 2006, Senator Barack Obama traveled to South Africa, Chad, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Chad and Kenya as a congressional delegation of one (Codel Obama) (“Codel Obama” The Hill 9/7/2006)
While in Kenya, Obama consistently appeared at the side of fellow Luo Raila Odinga (“your agent for change’), who was running for President. (“Senator Rebukes Kenya’s Corruption” Chicago Sun Times 8/29/2006)
Because of his African heritage, Obama was treated as a virtual “Head of State” in Kenya While campaigning with Odinga, Obama was openly critical of governmental corruption under President Mibaki –usually a fair, if undiplomatic, criticism from an objective observer.
However, Kibaki’s government has been better than most—and Odinga has his own corruption issues.(“Loud and Populist, But No Political Outsider” The Guardian 12/29/2007)
Odinga’s supporters went on a rampage—burning Kikuyu homes and businesses, (“Ethnic Cleansing in Luoland” The Economist 2/7/2008) raping Kikuyu women, and murdering everyone in their path—including at least 50 Christian Kikuyu woman & children who had sought refuge in a church. They burned them alive. (“Mob Burns Kenyans Seeking Refuge In Church” CNN 1/10/2008)
So: who is Raila Odinga that Senator Obama would expend his political capital and risk the goodwill of half the population of Kenya?
Their relationship is unclear. The BBC initially reported that Obama and Odinga were first cousins.(“Odinga Says Obama is His Cousin” 1/8/2008) The Obama campaign has since denied a familial relationship.
Raila Odinga’s father Oginga Odinga was leader of the “Kenya People’s Union” and perceived as a “committed socialist” (“Oginga Odinga: Kenya’s Most Persecuted Politician” Kenya: Key Issues 8/21.2002). Odinga Sr. was also the political ally of fellow Luo; Barack Obama Sr.(The Risks of Knowledge (Ohio University Press, 2004) p. 182)
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Klarissa1 year, 1 month ago
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http://africanpress.wordpress.com/2008/08/10/senat...
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At no point has Senator Obama tried to distance himself from Odinga.
Odinga visited Obama on a fundraising tour of the US in 2007 and it is believed that political strategist Dick Morris assisted in Odinga’s presidential campaign- gratis- at Obama’s request (Morris only acknowledged the suggestion came through “mutual friends”). (“Bridges Burned in US, Political Kingmaker Hits Africa” ABC News 11/20/2007)
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Klarissa1 year, 1 month ago
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"Clearly, Obama campaigned for someone who is corrupt, ruthless and has financial ties to terrorists. More importantly, Obama campaigned for a candidate who had the stated objective of dismantling US & Kenyan government efforts to root out Al Queda and other terrorist organizations.
Organizations that had already caused the deaths of hundreds of Americans and Africans in embassy bombings. Senator Obama’s actions—intentional or not—were in direct conflict with the efforts and interests of US national security.
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GehlLady1 year, 1 month ago
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ET,
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We will never know if there was voter fraud unless all the absentee ballots are verified before the election count. Once the envelope is seperated from the ballot there is no way to trace it back. Voter fraud is a very real probability! Especially in Ohio, where you can register and vote in the same day. The lawyer Obama, and ACORN who has flooded election offices in the last weeks know this. It's their business to know these things. -
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