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Barack Obama calls for 'peaceful and credible' Kenyan elections amid fears of violence
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Posted on 08/07/2017 3:02:56 PM PDT by TigerClaws

Former President Barack Obama on Monday called for unity and peace during what he fears could be potentially violent elections on Tuesday in Kenya, his father's homeland.

"I urge Kenyan leaders to reject violence and incitement; respect the will of the people; urge security forces to act professionally and neutrally; and no matter the outcome," Obama said in a statement on Monday. "I urge all Kenyans to work for an election — and aftermath — that is peaceful and credible, reinforcing confidence in your new constitution and the future of your country." Every Thought Leader Must Either Publish Or Perish Watch Full Screen

Incumbent Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta is running for a second term as president against opposition leader Raila Odinga as the two primary candidates out of eight running for election on Tuesday. Kenyans will also vote for the governors of 47 counties in Kenya.

In 2007, more than 1,000 people died as the result of violent clashes in the aftermath of the election after Odinga said the election had been rigged. The election in 2012 did not result in major violence, but people are still concerned about potential violence, and Kenyans have fled the capital of Nairobi in anticipation of the election, the BBC reported.

According to the Independent, Kenyan politics is often divided along ethnic lines and areas where these tensions could erupt into violence also concern Kenyans and election monitors.

"In Kenya's election we have already seen too much incitement and appeals based on fear from all sides," Obama said. "But I also know that the Kenyan people as a whole will be the losers if there is a descent into violence. You can make clear that you will reject those that want to deal in tribal and ethnic hatred. As I said two years ago, the voices of ordinary people and civil society can make sure that Kenya will not be defined by divisions of the past, but by the promise of the future. Today, those voices - your voices — are needed more than ever."

Obama added that during his visits to the country where his father grew up, he's witnessed the progress made in the country and hopes to see it live up to its potential.

"This election is one more milestone for Kenya, and I urge President Kenyatta, Mr. Odinga, and all Kenyans to act with respect for the proverb: ‘We have not inherited this land from our forebears, we have borrowed it from our children,'" Obama said. "The choices you make in the coming days can either set Kenya back or bring it together. As a friend of the Kenyan people, I urge you to work for a future defined not by fear and division, but by unity and hope."


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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Calls for peace there. He and his party creating chaos here.

#NOT MY FORMER PRESIDENT

1 posted on 08/07/2017 3:02:56 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: TigerClaws

Peaceful elections in his native country. Not so much in his adopted one.

Typical Barky Oblamer move...


2 posted on 08/07/2017 3:04:40 PM PDT by ssaftler ("Keep your hands to yourself, leave other people's things alone, and be kind to one another.")
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Well we know that he is more interested in his homeland, because one day he might want to run for prezz there.


3 posted on 08/07/2017 3:05:45 PM PDT by Meadow Muffin
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"I urge Kenyan leaders to reject violence and incitement; respect the will of the people; urge security forces to act professionally and neutrally; and no matter the outcome," Obama said in a statement on Monday. "I urge all Kenyans to work for an election — and aftermath — that is peaceful and credible, reinforcing confidence in your new constitution and the future of your country."

Nice pro-democracy boilerplate sentiments, even from Zero. I'm sure I'd have said something very similar, if I'd been asked to comment.

4 posted on 08/07/2017 3:08:16 PM PDT by Tax-chick (You can't read all day if you don't start early in the morning.)
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I wonder if B.O. mailed in his absentee ballot yet?


5 posted on 08/07/2017 3:08:37 PM PDT by VanDeKoik (.)
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For a guy who is not from Kenya, he sure seems to care a lot about it. My dad is from Germany and I don’t give a rip about German elections.


6 posted on 08/07/2017 3:10:44 PM PDT by calljack (Sometimes your worst nightmare is just a start.)
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Maybe Bammy should return to his homeland and help out there.


7 posted on 08/07/2017 3:12:34 PM PDT by ealgeone
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This guy just oozes insincerity from every pore. He is a phoney, a fraud, a charlatan.

I will never forgive the GOP traitors who bowed to him


8 posted on 08/07/2017 3:12:54 PM PDT by WashingtonFire (President Trump - it's like having your dad as President !)
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" Barack Obama calls for 'peaceful and credible' Kenyan elections amid fears of violence"

WATZAMATA, is someone born in Hawaii, married to a trany, trying to run for POK.

9 posted on 08/07/2017 3:13:27 PM PDT by crazy scenario
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For Kenya: “Accept the will of the voters”.

For U.S.: Overturn the will of the voters....


10 posted on 08/07/2017 3:13:41 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (Let Trump Be Trump. Would you rather have Hillary?)
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Obama should go home and fight for freedom ,LOL


11 posted on 08/07/2017 3:16:17 PM PDT by butlerweave (it's the children are)
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I wish he’d just go ahead and declare as a Kenyan citizen, and run for office there. He can go whoop it up every Friday with his Muzzie pals and pray to their demon.


12 posted on 08/07/2017 3:21:27 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Trump won; I celebrated; I'm good. Let's get on with the civil war now.)
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I believe his cousin, who was/is some kind of politician there, had a nasty habit of...

BURNING CHURCHES DOWN (with the congregation still inside)

Real nice guy.


13 posted on 08/07/2017 3:21:34 PM PDT by gaijin
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Obama could learn some fundamental things from the Kenyan nation.

First, you respect the winner of the election.

Second, you allow them to do their best, and you don’t block their every move.

Third, if you can’t grasp this, F.O.


14 posted on 08/07/2017 3:21:49 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Fourth estate? Ha! Our media has become the KCOTUS, the Kangaroo Court of the United States.)
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respect the will of the people lol that’s ironic considering his fellow commie libs refuse to respect the vote of the people here


15 posted on 08/07/2017 3:21:59 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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The Manchurian Candidate Barack Hussein Obama is lying through his teeth again.

As always; every single day.

We all know what he helped foster under his cousin Odinga. Plenty of deaths on his hands.




16 posted on 08/07/2017 3:23:13 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ....)
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To: TigerClaws

“My fellow countrymen of Kenya . . .”


17 posted on 08/07/2017 3:24:18 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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https://archive.org/details/ObamaSupportingIslamicTerrorRegimeOfOdingaInKenya

Largely ignored by the Corporate Controlled Media up to the present. See for yourself:

Barack Obama funneled over a million dollars (of mysterious origin) to his Kenyan cousin Raila Odinga, and used untold tax dollars to perform illegal rogue diplomacy, in a failed bid to get cousin Odinga elected. What's even more disturbing is the revelation that Obama did this knowing that Odinga secretly agreed to set up an Islamic dictatorship and terrorist regime in Kenya - a literal safe haven for terrorists wanted by the U.S.. There is evidence that Obama and Odinga planned Islamic uprisings and violence should Odinga lose the election. The result - thousands of dead and maimed Kenyans, some burned alive seeking refuge in a church - a genocide.

Relevant documents are available for download below.

NOTE: Soon after the genuine "MOU" document was smuggled out of Kenya and made public, a heavily redacted version was quickly released as "sanitized" propaganda. The PDF here is the genuine MOU, as attested to in the supporting affidavit filed in court. (The fake even appears on sribd.com, and the real version has been largely 'scrubbed' from the internet - but not here.)

SEE ALSO;

http://www.archive.org/details/BarackObamasCousinRailaOdinga-AgreementForIslamicShariaLaw http://www.archive.org/details/CorsiFbiReadyToFileCriminalChargesAgainstBarackObama

http://www.archive.org/details/The64ImpeachableOffensesOfBarackHusseinObama http://www.archive.org/details/BarackObama-BornInKenya-TheDocumentary

UPDATE: See PDF below for evidence that Barack Obama illegally gave 66,000,000 to Raila Odinga's campaign.

18 posted on 08/07/2017 3:26:11 PM PDT by gaijin
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"I urge Kenyan leaders to reject violence and incitement; respect the will of the people; urge security forces to act professionally and neutrally; and no matter the outcome," Obama said in a statement on Monday. "I urge all Kenyans to work for an election — and aftermath — that is peaceful and credible, reinforcing confidence in your new constitution and the future of your country."
Just like you did for Odinga, eh, Barky? Or was that a different Kenya?


19 posted on 08/07/2017 3:27:35 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (RuPaul and Yertle - our illustrious Republican leaders up the Hill - God help us!)
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Just who is Barack Hussein Obama? Oh, yes, I remember him. He was the Democrat POTUS, along with the Congressional Black Caucus, the NAACP and, the Democrat Party that screwed all over his African-American brothers & sisters during the eight years he was POTUS.

And...Obama did all this while he was singing out across the land of America...Chicago, Chicago, Chicago, my hometown, the land of murder, drugs, crime, rape, no jobs, no safety, no opportunity, no education. Obama, the community organizer that royally screwed and did in his own people!!!What a guy!!!

Yep....Black folks, elect Maxine Waters and get royally screwed again.


20 posted on 08/07/2017 3:28:31 PM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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