Posted on 08/30/2008 4:16:14 PM PDT by spacejunkie01
Los Angeles blogger Juliette Ochieng has a lot in common with the man who might be the next president, Barack Obama. A lot.
Both were born to Kenyan fathers of the same tribe (the Luo) from the same province (Nyanza), and both of their fathers came as boys to America aboard the same airplane. Growing up, neither Ochieng nor Obama knew their fathers, who both abandoned their American mothers and left their American-born children behind. Both of their fathers returned to Africa in the early 1960s and became friends, bonding at Kenyan bars over their favorite drink — Scotch. Both Ochieng's and Obama's mothers contracted ovarian cancer. (Hers survived it; his did not). Both Ochieng and Obama were born in the U.S. in August 1961 — only weeks apart.
But for someone with parallel beginnings, Juliette Akinyi Ochieng is quite different: Evangelical Christian. Working class. Military veteran. Pro-life. Conservative Republican.
Ochieng went to Los Angeles City College, not Harvard. Although she was born in Chicago — Obama's political birthplace — she lives in South-Central Los Angeles, where she grew up. And since 2003, she has written a blog, luoamerican.com/baldilocks, better known as Baldilocks, a reference to her fashionably close-shaven head. Her soft speech belies her harsh yet thoughtful commentaries on black politics and national security from a conservative perspective.
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Biography
My name is Juliette Akinyi Ochieng. I’m a veteran of the USAF and the USAFR—retired in October 2003.
The handle ‘baldilocks’ was given to me by a USAF cohort an old friend and it stems from my hair—or, rather, my lack of same.
And, yes, I’m of the same tribe as himself. And, no, we’re not Irish.
Email: juliette[at]luoamerican[dot]com
She was “discovered” by Glenn Reynolds. She is a very astute commentator on domestic politics and the WoT.
Go to:
www.obamaschool.org
One hears that B Hussein Obamalama ding dong was born in Kenya and has falsified birth documents.
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