Odinga is not Obama’s first cousin. To be Obama’s first cousin Odinga must be the son of one of Obama’s parents siblings or vice versa.
That is clearly not the case.
Big deal. Dick Cheney is also Obama’s cousin.
I have tried to advise fellow freepers not to trust pro-Kibaki propaganda. Digging up stories from the sixties does not help. The best way for African Leaders to obtain aid money during the Cold War was to alternate between posing as Marxists and Capitalists. There were only a few true socialists like Nyerere in Tanzania.
Even Mobutu dabbled with the Chinese (they build one or two stadiums in Kinsasha). Idi Amin was friendly with Israel until syphilis induced madness took over him - he then moved over to Gaddafi. Siad Barre of Somalia rapidly alternated between East and West (all that mattered to him was competition with Haile Mengistu Miriam in Ethiopia). The Zambians were ‘marxist’ when Mao helped them build railways, subsequently pro-western, now pro-chinese because of investment in copper mines.
==Odinga is not Obama’s first cousin. To be Obama’s first cousin Odinga must be the son of one of Obama’s parents siblings or vice versa.
Straight from the horses mouth. Either Odinga is lying, or he’s Obama’s first cousin:
“Opposition leader Raila Odinga, who lost the election to incumbent Mwai Kibaki, said that his first cousin Barack Obama had called him twice to express his concern, ‘despite being in the middle of the very busy New Hampshire primary.’”
http://www.harpers.org/subjects/BarackObama/SubjectOf/Event
http://www.harpers.org/subjects/BarackObama/SubjectOf/Event
I’d say setting up a headquarters to overthrow the government of Kenya on behalf of the Soviets/Red Chinese is just a little different than accepting assistance for railways, etc. Also, Odinga’s son (Raila Odinga), and Obama’s apparent first cousin, was educated in Soviet controlled East Germany, named his son after Fidel Castro, and is currently attempting to accomplish the same feat as his father: THE OVERTHROW OF KENYA’S GOVERNMENT, and the installation of an Islamo-Marxist dictatorship with the full support of our would-be Commander-in-Chief, Barack Hussein Obama.
I’m Barack Obama’s cousin says Raila Odinga
By Mike Pflanz in Nairobi
Last Updated: 2:49am GMT 11/01/2008
Kenya’s defeated presidential challenger Raila Odinga has claimed to be a cousin of Barack Obama and said that they had discussed his country’s post-election violence.
Kibaki offers talks with Kenyan rival Odinga
Obama senses victory as voting begins
Mr Odinga, 63, said that the US senator’s father, from western Kenya’s Luo tribe, was his maternal uncle.
Mr Odinga (right) says that Senator Obama’s late father was his uncle on his mother’s side
“He has called me to talk about the destabilising constitutional crisis in this country, despite being in the middle of the very busy New Hampshire primary,” Mr Odinga said yesterday.
Mr Obama’s spokesman Robert Gibbs confirmed that the senator spoke to the Kenyan opposition leader on Monday afternoon for about five minutes before going into a rally in New Hampshire, according to Associated Press...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/08/wkenya308.xml
OK, so what?
Does it make it right for Obama to support such a murderous thug?
Obama's support for Odinga is the issue here, not the relationship.
Didn’t I read somewhere on here yesterday that Odinga’s mother was a sister of Obama’s father? That would have made them first cousins—and Odinga’s father, Obama’s uncle.
Good try.
I almost believed you, till I heard the socialist/communist plans O has and his voting (when he did), in Illinois and on the hill. Bad fruit.
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2) Unlike his campaigning for his 1st cousin, Barack Hussein Obama did not campaign for Cheney
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Raila Odinga is indeed Obama’s first cousin. Raila Odinga is the son of Barack Hussein Obama Senior’s sister, Auma. That makes Raila a direct first cousin of Obama and nephew of Obama’s father.