I want balance. If you’re going to talk about Odinga at least talk about Kibaki. I heard no mention about the news media blackout, about police and army brutality, about extra-judicial killing by government forces.
I heard nothing about election rigging and other election related fraud. All I hear is that Odinga operates in a vacuum and Obama is his willing accomplice.
The mark of a great mind is the ability to consider other points of view. That is precisely what I am trying to provoke on this forum.
If that makes me a quisling, so be it.
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No you don't. You want us to ignore Obama's Kenya activities and his connections. You want us to pretend that he did not actively campaign for a Marxist and that the Marxist is responsible for the killings that forced a power-sharing deal.
Hell, you want us to believe that there are no Marxists in African politics at all.
Why? That is irrelevant to American politics. We don't give a rat's patoot about Kenyan politics as its own issue. If Obama had supported Kibaki our issue would be the same. (Providing Kibaki is what you say he is.) All that matters is that Obama gave support to a candidate that promoted Sharia law and whose supporters went on a murderous rampage. In your own words "Odinga is an SOB who would do anything (including murder) to get elected." Obama supported him, end of story.
The mark of a great mind is the ability to assimilate new facts and data when they are relevant.
If your remark were literally true, you'd be having us looking for the good in Iran's mullahcracy (low AIDS rate), National Socialism (restoration of an inflation-devastated country, autobahns, progressive eugenics and applied Social Darwinism), and Eliot Spitzer (looking beyond his own personal weaknesses to enforce the higher societal good).
Please, 'reconsider'.
Cheers!