Posted on 12/06/2008 9:21:26 AM PST by FocusNexus
A black-tie dinner and ball are scheduled to take place on the night of the inauguration at posh Marriott Gateway Hotel.
It is said to be a pan-African gala in honour of the first US president of African descent.
Kenya's ambassador in Washington Peter Ogego said he hopes the new president and the First Lady will include the event in their round of inaugural balls.
Invitations are also being sent to incoming Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and UN ambassador Susan Rice, Mr Ogego added.
Mr Odinga is expected to attend both of the Kenya-sponsored inauguration celebrations.
The National Democratic Institute, a non-governmental democracy-promotion group, has invited him to take part in the Martin Luther King Jnr Day celebrations in Washington on January 18.
On the inauguration day, the Kenya mission will hold a reception at Washington Plaza Hotel near the route of the parade leading to President Obama's swearing in on the steps of the US Capitol.
The inaugural ball is being hosted by the African Ambassadors Group in Washington, along with the US Corporate Council on Africa and the World Bank - IMF African Society.
Tickets are priced at almost ($200) Sh16,000 per person for an event that Mr Ogego estimates will cost $200,000 (Sh15.8 million)
The envoy said also that the afternoon reception will be open to all and free of charge. However, the embassy will spend about $40,000 (Sh3.1million) on organising it.
"Everyone at the embassy in Washington is excited at the prospect of a US president with ties to Kenya," Mr Ogego said, adding that Mr Obama's election offers to Kenya lessons and potential benefits.
"The US has demonstrated we can all move beyond artificial barriers - be it race, class or ethnicity," he said.
Tangible gains for Kenya can already be felt, the envoy added and cited the uptick in US tourism to Kenya along with the international media attention that the country is receiving.
Additional benefits will come in time, Mr Ogego said, and pointed out, for example, that Bill Richardson, Mr Obama's designee as secretary of commerce, has visited Kenya on three occasions and regards himself as a good friend of the country.
President-elect Obama's convincing victory in the November poll over Republican John McCain triggered celebrations all over Kenya.
In his father's birth place of Kogelo, several bulls were slaughtered.
Reports said at the time that Mr Odinga joined the the celebrations as he, through an aide, provided more bulls.
Please don’t upset or offend Mr Odinga while he is here. His supporters might go on a rampage of burning homes and businesses, raping women, murdering everyone in their path and burning alive Christian women & children.
But then, as a multicultural and diverse Nation, we should be more tolerant of these kinds of activities.
Odinga and Obama will jointly lead several standing room only seminars on importand subjects:
“Vote Fraud: It Can Work for You Too!”
“Document Forgery Made Easy”
“Looking Presidential While Wielding a Machete”
“The Nairobi Trio is Now a Duo”
And many, many more.
Please go to http://www.it’sthechicagoway.org
sorry.
importand = important!
I think the Jihadists consider Obamy an infidel, and since there is a possibility that they have nukes---well, who knows what may fall from the sky?
Maybe I'm a tad paranoid--whatever--it's better to be safe than sorry IMHO.
Might as well demolish the National Cathedral as a symbolic gesture of what is to come.
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Why am I not surprised it doesn't exist anymore ... .
Bump
Guess I should have tagged that link with a satire alert.
Link is joke.
Sorry.
No Obama LOVES his country, he just HATES the US.
Guess I should have tagged that link with a satire alert.
Link is joke.
Sorry.
Yippee yay! We can get the guy who bullied by murder Kenya into Sharia Law celebrating our new President.
And I still haven’t figured out why no one on the left thinks this is a bad idea.
I tried to explain the connection to several friends one evening. As I heard myself speaking, even I thought it sounded ridiculous. Maybe that partly explains the fact that no one picked up on this - it sounds too bizarre to be true. Unfortunately, it’s NOT too bizarre to be true.
I apologize. Not for our President Elect campaigning for this murderous thug who promises to install Sharia Law in breakaway Muslim areas ... in Kenya ... which violates US law .... but for failing to bring this disgusting series of facts to the attention of the McCain-Palin Team in a forceful enough manner to convince them ... or the MSM ... to mention it.
The cymbal-playing Nairobi Trio? :)
Almost as bizarre as a non-citizen being elected POTUS, and the media and sheeple failing to join in the movement to have The Fraud show us his REAL birth certificate?
Yes, sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction.
It could be a coincidence, but after Zero returned from Pockeestan, and moved to NYC (where he met Ayers), the WeatherUnderground was joining forces with militant black groups, and then went on to commit the Brinks robbery. One of the perps caught in the aftermath of that crime was a dude named Odinga. hmmm...
Let us know this is a joke in the beginning.
It's bad enough Obama got in ... .
Change, but without hope.
But if you act now, we’ll throw in
“Taking Advantage of Liberal Guilt - 101”
“Laundering Foreign Money In Three Easy Steps”
“Race Baiting for Beginners”
and our personal favorite......
“Burka-Clad Girls Gone Wild”
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