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Obama: The Kenya Connection
PBS ^ | January 25, 2008 | Edwin Okong'o

Posted on 04/26/2008 2:23:29 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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I didn't realize foreigners could raise funds & contribute to U.S. candidates.
1 posted on 04/26/2008 2:23:29 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Well Kenya needs a lot of healing.

Let the Great Healer go there and make it all better.


2 posted on 04/26/2008 2:38:02 AM PDT by DB
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Neither did I. Scary thought, isn't it. Wonder if Hamas is donating?

The Kenyans want Obama as president of Kenya? Good, they can have him!

3 posted on 04/26/2008 2:40:13 AM PDT by informavoracious (God BLESS America)
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What a load of crap. Is the author going back to Kenya or will he live in the “racist” United States?

Obama will be our first 3rd world president — If elected


4 posted on 04/26/2008 2:43:36 AM PDT by dennisw
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Dear Edwin:

Piss-off.


5 posted on 04/26/2008 2:55:27 AM PDT by GeneralisimoFranciscoFranco (I love liberals. They taste like chicken.)
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“(BHO) is married to a black woman, he has black children, and he has worked in the black community. Can anyone get any blacker than that?”

Sure. Bill Clinton, America’s first black president. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA


6 posted on 04/26/2008 2:57:35 AM PDT by tgusa (Gun control: deep breath, sight alignment, squeeze the trigger .....)
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The mulato marxist would do fine in Kenya. He could be their version of Bob Mugabe. They could even rename the country Obamastan.


7 posted on 04/26/2008 3:08:58 AM PDT by Comparative Advantage
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I find it fascinating that some Kenyans have apparently independently developed some of the same stereotypes about “African-Americans” that exist over here. Squaring these products of affirmative action (the Obamas) with industrious, hard-working Africans over here makes my head hurt, though.


8 posted on 04/26/2008 3:33:47 AM PDT by tgusa (Gun control: deep breath, sight alignment, squeeze the trigger .....)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Did you forget that the Chinese funded Clinton’s campaign???


9 posted on 04/26/2008 3:42:55 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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McCain and the RNC are going to have their hands full vs. the BHO $$ machine. They can just do it without me - I have a reliably conservative Congresscritter (maybe the last one on earth??) who I’ll support.


10 posted on 04/26/2008 3:51:52 AM PDT by tgusa (Gun control: deep breath, sight alignment, squeeze the trigger .....)
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And yet millions of Americans have always felt they have had the right to contribute money to Sinn Fein for decades, and still do...


11 posted on 04/26/2008 3:54:12 AM PDT by thundrey
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Sir you can have him!! Take your self and Obama's whole family with you:-()
12 posted on 04/26/2008 4:56:39 AM PDT by geo40xyz (McCain, Obama or Hillarybeast possibility of 4 Supreme Court Justices, Gore @UN. The WINNER is?)
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"If we Kenyans were granted one wish for 2008, we would request the right to vote for Democratic Senator Barack Obama in the U.S. presidential elections."

Yes, if Kenyans could vote in U.S. elections, the U.S. would be in the mess Kenya is in.

13 posted on 04/26/2008 5:12:33 AM PDT by Savage Beast ("History is not just cruel. It is witty." ~Charles Krauthammer)
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Obama: The Kenya Connection....

No....b. HUSSEIN and the muzzie connections!!!!


14 posted on 04/26/2008 5:14:01 AM PDT by nyyankeefan
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If we Kenyans were granted one wish for 2008, we would request the right to vote for Democratic Senator Barack Obama in the U.S. presidential elections.

Sorry, only Mexicans get to vote in U.S. elections.

15 posted on 04/26/2008 5:16:06 AM PDT by SampleMan (We are a free and industrious people, socialist nannies do not become us.)
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“Adebayo adds that the way universities use Africans to count in meeting affirmative action quotas for African-Americans has also deepened the conflict between Africans and African-Americans.”

This one leaves me scratching my head. So, US blacks don’t feel African immigrants are black enough or minority enough?


16 posted on 04/26/2008 5:45:24 AM PDT by whatshotandwhatsnot
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I also note that this article makes no mention of his militant Mohammedan half brother...


17 posted on 04/26/2008 5:46:45 AM PDT by LSUfan
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I’ve been desperately worried that BO wasn’t “black enough.” Now my mind is at rest.


18 posted on 04/26/2008 6:04:27 AM PDT by Malesherbes
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With all due respect to all concerned, the article is a piece of propogandist bull crap. The writer is covering Barrack bin laden Odinga’s backside. Read the online European newspaper articles on the cousin Raila(sic) Odinga and his real connection to Sambo bin laden Obama.

right turns
tight lines
Caddis


19 posted on 04/26/2008 6:39:07 AM PDT by palmerizedCaddis (McLame can win without carrying N. Carolina? In the moron's dreams!!!!!)
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Is the author going back to Kenya or will he live in the “racist” United States?
My experience in the 13 years I have lived in this country -- and I know I'm not alone -- is that many Americans of European descent warm up quickly when they find out that the black man standing in front of them is not an African-American.

. . . which pretty much disposes of the issue of "racism," doesn't it!

The "racial tension" is actually a cultural one between descendants of black slaves and others. A whole lot of patronizing goes on both ways - and especially from descendants of black slaves to white Americans.

The comfort between Africans and American whites earns us dislike from some African-Americans, who see us not only as betrayers, but also collaborators in white America's refusal to provide the equal employment and education they have been fighting for. Adebayo adds that the way universities use Africans to count in meeting affirmative action quotas for African-Americans has also deepened the conflict between Africans and African-Americans.
Thomas Sowell has pointed out that American descendants of black slaves consider black Jamaicans "black Jews" because of their cultural differences. Again, why would Jesse Jackson be happy with black Africans and black Jamaicans going around without a chip on their shoulder towards whites - and proving thereby that African American economic distinctiveness is not "racial" but cultural in origin.

It seems to me that not enough African Americans ever get enough distance from the country to be able actually to discover America. We need a lot more Thomas Sowells - or, failing that, a few more post-1975 Elridge Cleavers.


20 posted on 04/26/2008 1:00:35 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (Thomas Sowell for President)
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