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The article referred to above states that if the Repubs have a tape of Obama campaigning for Odinga that it will finish him.

A tape would finish him? We already know he went to Kenya to campaign for Odinga. It was printed in an African newspaper that Obama campaigned so much for Odinga and interfered so much in African politics that a government official called Obama Odinga’s ‘stooge’!

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.

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Mr Odinga, 63, said that the US senator’s father, from western Kenya’s Luo tribe, was his maternal uncle.

“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.

The Democrat would-be presidential candidate is also understood to have tried to speak to President Mwai Kibaki, whose victory in December 27 elections has been widely questioned.

Mr Obama has not commented on the Kenyan opposition leader’s claim to be a relative.

Mr Obama’s father, also named Barack Obama, won a scholarship to a university in Hawaii, where he met and married Mr Obama’s American mother.

The two separated and Mr Obama’s father returned to Kenya, where he worked as a government economist until he died in a car crash in 1982.

The US Democrat visited Kenya in August and made a speech that was televised live in which he touched on themes not normally debated openly in Kenya, criticising the high-level corruption and the tribal politics that have dominated the country since its 1963 independence from Britain.

Since December 27 elections, Kenya has been rocked by tribal clashes which have left at least 600 people dead after President Mwai Kibaki claimed victory and opposition leader Raila Odinga declared the vote had been rigged.

International observers have noted “many irregularities” in the vote.

Mr Obama’s uncle, Said Obama, said that his village, Kogela, in western Kenya, had been spared the violence and expressed his excitement as his US relative led polls in New Hampshires Democrat primaries.

“Ah, that’s wonderful, but I don’t want to jump just yet,” Said Obama told AP.

If Barack Obama were in Kenya today, he would “work with the leadership to bring them to a round table and find a solution to the problems that have been ravaging the country”, his uncle said.

Said Obama said his nephew “has proved to be a beacon of hope here and shown that even in difficult circumstances you can make it to the highest height of achievement with just determination and hard work”.

Hopes that Kenya’s two main political rivals would meet to stem the bloodshed were dashed last night when Mr Odinga rejected calls for talks without outside mediation.

He has dismissed an invitation to meet Mr Kibaki who has begun announcing his cabinet.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1574963/I%27m
Barack-Obama%27s-cousin-says-Raila-Odinga.html
photo copy of Odina/Muslim pact:
http://eakenya.org/newsevents/article.htm?id=8

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/4118

http://www.themidnightsun.org/?p=1613