Your attempts to rewrite history are completely laughable to readers of FREE REPUBLIC. The videofootage and local news coverage of Senator Obama campaigning for Odinga are not debatable. There are several videos of him at these different venues.
Here is an excerpt from the Washington Times......
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/12/obamas-kenya-ghosts/print/
....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.
Mr. Odinga and Mr. Obama had met several times before the 2006 trip. Reports indicate Mr. Odinga visited Mr. Obama during trips to the U.S. in 2004, 2005 and 2006. Mr. Obama sent his foreign policy adviser Mark Lippert to Kenya in early 2006 to coordinate his summer visit. Mr. Obama’s August trip coincided with strategizing by Orange Democratic Movement leaders to defeat Mr. Kibaki in the upcoming elections. Mr. Odinga represented the ODM ticket in the presidential race.
Mr. Odinga and Mr. Obama’s father were both from the Luo community, the second-largest tribe in Kenya, but their ties run much deeper. Mr. Odinga told a stunned BBC Radio interviewer the reason why he and Mr. Obama were staying in near daily telephone contact was because they were cousins. In a Jan. 8, 2008, interview, Mr. Odinga said Mr. Obama had called him twice the day before while campaigning in the New Hampshire primary before adding, “Barack Obama’s father is my maternal uncle.”
President Kibaki requested a meeting of all opposition leaders in early January in an effort to quell the violence-——. All agreed to attend except Mr. Odinga.-—— A month later, Mr. Kibaki offered Mr. Odinga the role of prime minister, the de facto No. 2 in the Kenyan government, in return for an end to the attacks. Mr. Odinga was sworn in on April 17, 2008.
Mr. OBAMA’S judgment is seriously called into question when he backs an official with troubling ties to Muslim extremists and whose supporters practice ethnic cleansing and genocide. It was Islamic extremists in Kenya who bombed the U.S. Embassy in 1998, killing more than 200 and injuring thousands. None of this has dissuaded Mr. Obama from maintaining disturbing loyalties.
STOP the lies Spectra,
Kenyan government officials said:
“Obama is a stooge for an opposing political party.”
Just as he had all during that one week stay in Kenya, while at the University of Nairobi, Obama continued to offer up continuous pointed criticism of Kibaki’s administration.
This is a quote from President Mwai Kibaki, (not a right-wing American blog).
Obama may have, “fallen under the spell of opposition leader Raila Odinga.”
And from his administration,
“Odinga’s been at Obama’s elbow here fairly often and is a member of the Obama family’s Luo tribe.”
“Sen. Obama has to look at critically about where he’s receiving his advice from,” said government spokesman Dr. Alfred Mutua.
“Just because somebody, somewhere wants to run for president and is using Sen. Obama as his stooge, as his puppet to be able to get to where he wants to get to.”