Posted on 06/28/2008 8:56:27 AM PDT by Bushwacker777
"For Odinga it was a PR triumph of the first order. The rock star’s glitter rubbed off on his putative cousin by the bucket.
Nor did Obama limit his role to boosting Odinga’s image. The senator also criticized the incumbent Kenyan president. Mike Flannery, political editor for CBS2 in Nairobi, reported that Obama had accused the Kibaki government (Odinga’s opponent) of corruption “almost every day since he arrived.”
The political temperature grew hotter than the Nairobi summer. Dr. Alfred Matua, a government spokesman, accused Odinga of “using Obama as his stooge, as his puppet.” Matua added, “Sen. Obama has to look critically at where he’s receiving advice from.”
Although there were personal elements to the Obama visit, e.g., his return to his ancestral village, he was in Kenya as the representative of the U.S. government. The fact that he was attacking the government of Mwai Kibaki, a stalwart U.S. ally in the war on terror, carried implications far beyond Obama’s support of a Luo tribesman. "
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
Logan Act violation?
Juw5 received this this morning:
VERY INTERESTING READING
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>> >>> Note: forwarded message attached.
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>> >>> We need to get this message out! Please circulate this to all your
>> >>> contacts!
>> >>>
>> >>> This man must not get into office.
>> >>> Celeste and Loren Davis are Missionaries in Africa and can shed some
>> >>> light
>> >>> on one of our Presidential candidates.
>> >>> Thanks for sending out an alert about Obama. We are living and
>> >>> working
>> >>> in
>> >>> Kenya for almost twelve years now and know his family (tribe) well.
> They
>> >>> are
>> >>> the ones who were behind the recent Presidential election chaos here.
>> >>>
>> >>> Thousands of people have been displaced by election violence(over
>> >>> 350,000)
>> >>> and I don’t know the last count of the dead. Obama under “friends of
>> >>> Obama”
>> >>> gave almost a million dollars to the opposition campaign who just
>> >>> happened
>> >>> to be his cousin, Raila Odinga, who is a socialist trained in east
>> >>> Germany.
>> >>>
>> >>> He has been trying to bring Kenya down for years and the last
> president
>> >>> threw him in prison or trying to subvert this country! December 27th
>> >>> elections brought cries from ODM (Odinga Camp) of rigged election.
> Obama
>> >>> and
>> >>> Raila speak daily. As we watch Obama rise in the US we are sure that
>> >>> whatever happens, he will use the same tactic, crying rigged election
> if
>> >>> he
>> >>> doesn’t win and possibly cause a race war in America.
>> >>>
>> >>> What we would like you to know is what the American press has been
>> >>> keeping a
>> >>> dirty little secret. Obama IS a Muslim and he IS a racist and this is
> a
>> >>> fulfillment of the 911 threat that was just the beginning. Jihad is
> the
>> >>> only
>> >>> true Muslim way. We have been working with them for 20 years this
> July!
>> >>>
>> >>> He is not an American as we know it. Please encourage your friends
>> >>> and
>> >>> associates not to be taken in by those that are promoting him. It is
>> >>> world
>> >>> wide jihad. All our friends in Europe are very disturbed by the
>> >>> Muslim
>> >>> infiltration into their countries. By the way,his true name is Barak
>> >>> Hussein
>> >>> Muhammed Obama. Won’t that sound sweet to our enemies as they swear
> him
>> >>> in
>> >>> on the Koran!
>> >>>
>> >>> God Bless you.Pray for us here in Kenya. We are still fighting for
>> >>> our
>> >>> nation to withstand the same kind of assault that every nation,
>> >>> including
>> >>> America, is fighting. Takeover from the outside to fit the new world
>> >>> order.
>> >>> As believers, this means we will be the first targets. Here in Kenya,
>> >>> not
>> >>> one mosque was burned down, but hundreds of churches were burned
>> >>> down,
>> >>> some
>> >>> with people in them, burned alive.
>> >>>
>> >>> Jesus Christ is our peace but the new world order of Globalism has
>> >>> infiltrated the church and confused believers into thinking that they
>> >>> can
>> >>> compromise and survive. It won’t be so. I will send you a newsletter
> we
>> >>> sent
>> >>> out in February documenting in a more cohesive manner what I’ve tried
> to
>> >>> say
>> >>> in a few paragraphs.
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The above from Christian missionaries in Kenya.
MEMRITV.org - VIDEO CLIP #1791: "Title of Video: Libyan Leader Mu'ammar Al-Qadhafi: Obama Suffers Inferiority Complex That Might Make Him Behave "Whiter Than the White." He Should Be Proud of His African, Muslim Identity. Ben-Gurion Gave the Green Light for the Killing of JFK" ("Clip #1791 Broadcast: June 11, 2008")
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