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Obama and Odinga share the same Luo heritage and history and has made it possible for them to share the same spotlight at this defining moment in Kenyan and American histories about hope and fear.

Raila Odinga has, in his own words, a “close personal friendship” with Obama.

When Obama went to Kenya in August of 2006, he was hosted by Raila and spoke in praise of him at several rallies in Nairobi. Obama’s bias for his fellow Luo was so blatant that a Kenya government spokesman denounced Obama during his visit as Raila’s “stooge.”

http://www.freedomsenemies.com/_more/obama.htm

Here's a picture of Obama, with Raila Amolo Odinga, in Kenya, in August of 2006:

A year later, in August, of 2007, Raila Amolo Odinga signed an agreement with Sheikh Abdullahi Abdi to implement Sharia law if Odinga were to win the Muslim vote:

Kenyan Christians could be subjected to Sharia law
http://www.christiantoday.com/article/kenyan.christians.could.be.subjected.to.sharia.law/15638.htm
Concerns Raised Over Alleged Vow to Enforce Islamic Law in Kenya
http://www.christianpost.com/article/20071218/30541_Concerns_Raised_Over_Alleged_Vow_to_Enforce_Islamic_Law_in_Kenya.htm

Now, a mere five months later, we've got Odinga supporters burning and hacking Christians to death:

Children torched in Kenya church
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23000292-601,00.html
In broad daylight, a crowd of Kenyans set a church filled with hundreds of terrified families on fire and listened to their screams as flames engulfed them. According to witnesses including police and a Red Cross volunteer, those who escaped the Assemblies of God Church in Eldoret, about 300km west of Nairobi, were hunted down with machetes; others hid inside pit latrines...
The December 27 presidential election was narrowly won by the incumbent, Mwai Kibaki, amid allegations from defeated challenger Raila Amolo Odinga that the vote was rigged.
The violence is the worst Kenya has witnessed since a failed coup in 1982.
With Mr Kibaki belonging to Kenya's largest tribe, the Kikuyu, and Mr Odinga to the second-largest, the Luo, the violence has taken on a distinctly ethnic hue, with tit-for-tat killings and targeted arson attacks.
"What I saw was unimaginable and indescribable," said the director of the Kenyan Red Cross, Abbas Gullet, after visiting several of the worst hit areas of western Kenya. "This is a national disaster."
Those massacred in the church were mostly Kikuyus...

This, of course, is the same Raila Amolo Odinga who claims to be Barack Hussein Obama's cousin:

Odinga says Obama is his cousin
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7176683.stm
Obama urges talks in phone call to Kenya's Odinga
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/world/obama-urges-talks-in-phone-call-to-kenyas-odinga/2008/01/09/1199554690401.html
...Odinga told the BBC radio that he had spoken twice with Obama, whose father was from Kenya and like Odinga was a member of the Luo tribe, and added that he and Obama are relatives.
"He called me twice yesterday to express his concern and to say he is also going to call president Kibaki so that Kibaki agrees to find a negotiated satisfactory solution to this problem," said Odinga.
"Barack Obama's father is actually my maternal uncle," said Odinga, who is battling to overturn disputed presidential elections which have plunged Kenya into turmoil...
Amid allegations of vote-rigging, violence erupted 10 days ago leaving 600 people dead and 250,000 displaced and sending diplomats scurrying for a political solution to the crisis...