Say what may, Obama is Kogelo’s son ruling the greatest nation on earth

The Nairobi Standard ^ | October 17, 2009 | Judy Munyinyi-Mumo

[2ndDivisionVet]

Following my article last week on whether Barack Obama deserved to get the Nobel Peace Prize, my inbox was inundated with emails from American readers seeking to know whether I have proof that Obama was really born in Kenya.

If he was born in Kenya, they theorise, he is therefore not entitled to claim American citizenship and the presidency of the United States.

I could not help laughing at those emails, most displaying a naivete' and lack of understanding of this sentence from last week’s article: "It seems Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States of America (via a sleepy village in Kenya called Nyang’oma K’Ogelo) can do no wrong."

To all the skeptics out there, here is one inescapable fact. There was a Barack Hussein Obama born in Kenya. He is the father of your president. He was a black man from black Africa. The name and the person Barack Hussein Obama Sr, came from a sleepy village in Kenya called Nyang’oma Kogelo.

And here is another inescapable truth: the fact that Barack Hussein Obama Jr was born in Hawaii has already been proved beyond doubt by your own government. He is a US citizen. His election a year ago and his popularity around the world baffled many Americans but the fact remains he is entitled to be president. Get over it, you conspiracy theorists and people of dubious intelligence who cannot accept your country is led by a person of African descent. Obama has been examined under your microscope for at least two years. If there was proof to the contrary, wouldn’t you have found it by now?

For the record, my article did not question whether the US President began his life here in Kenya. The gist was that the President of the United States is a man who can seemingly do no wrong. His words and deeds since he took office, his visits to various parts of the globe have helped to change the image we have of America and Americans.

The questions I posed are paraphrased thus:

• How can we create a better, more sustainable world? I believe I read somewhere that Americans consume over 50 per cent of all global resources, and they will need to lead the way in all spheres (military, scientific, political, and economic) to reduce the strain placed on our global ecosystem.

• Can President Obama succeed in changing America and thus the world? Will the Americans let him, I wonder? If the Americans cannot agree on something as fundamental as healthcare for all, something that even a poor nation like Kenya strives to provide for its citizens, can these most wasteful of human beings accept a change in lifestyle, even for their own good? Only time will tell.

I admire how Obama has dealt with the various circumstances and difficulties destiny has sent his way.

I think about the American side of his family. Did his mother have any idea how great her son was going to become? I feel for him, knowing that his mother, Ann, grandfather Stanley, and especially his maternal grandmother, Madelyn, who died just two days before his historic election victory, never lived to see their son become one of the greatest men in the world. I feel sad he has to live with the knowledge that none of the people who brought him up were alive to see that moment. The American side of his life needs to be honoured and celebrated, just as we celebrate his Kenyan roots.

Let me explain how it works, America.

In Kenya, and many other African countries, a child belongs not just to the mother and father, but to the extended family: grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins.

Amongst the Luo, this concept of community is particularly strong, which is why even though Obama is fully American, to his relatives in Kenya he is fully Luo. He is a son of Kogelo. That is his home.

In patrilineal Kenya, everybody has a ‘real’ home, which is where the father/husband originally comes from, and not just where they have chosen to live and work.

I, for instance, have lived and worked in Nairobi all my life but my children will grow up knowing that home is the dry and dusty area North-East of Nairobi called Kitui.

Obama doesn’t have to have been born in Kenya to get the privilege of calling Kogelo home. And even though, legally, the Government of Kenya does not recognise him as Kenyan that is of little consequence to his family here.

So, was Barack H Obama Jr born in Kenya? No. But believe it or not, the President of the most powerful nation in the world is still from a sleepy little village in Kenya called Kogelo.

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—The writer (judy.munyinyi@gmail.com) is a media consultant

[2ndDivisionVet]

Comments?

[sthguard]

Nothing new here— just further proof that there are moonbats all over the globe.

[cripplecreek]

Sounds like they’re trying to put out the fire.

[ez]

Smarmy...

[piasa]

If the Americans cannot agree on something as fundamental as healthcare for all, something that even a poor nation like Kenya strives to provide for its citizens

Hey, Judy... before you hold Kenya up as an example to follow, ask yourself why Kenya is poor.

[PGalt]

OK. That’s it. Issue settled. That is definitive proof for me. /sarcasm

[mrsmel]

Yet another whining socialist demanding that American taxpayers who work for the little they get to keep of their checks, hand over the remainder to be thrown down the black hole known as the African continent.

There’s a great essay from the now-defunct blog “The Other Side Of Kim” regarding this issue, called “Let Africa Sink”—the author is an immigrant from South Africa to the US-——

http://www.theothersideofkim.com/index.php/essays/36/

All the Obama stuff was just so much fuzzy static, it’s been played so often that it’s just background noise to my ears now.

[danamco]

And here is another inescapable truth: the fact that Barack Hussein Obama Jr was born in Hawaii has already been proved beyond doubt by your own government. He is a US citizen.

Yes, Mr. Mumo, we can agree that he might be (?) a U.S. citizen, but you don't understand the difference, Mr. Mumo, that that is not the same as being a Natural Born Citizen which is required to be President of the United States!!!

Mr. Mumo, please explain why the "Kenyan" boy is spending a fortune of OUR tax money to keep ALL his records under seal, huh???

[Diogenesis]

“Article in Nairobi Paper June 2004 - Barack born in Africa
An ongoing poll by AOL News currently shows that 58% of Americans have doubts
about Obama’s citizenship. The poll was started on July 28 and continues — you can go
here to vote. And lest you think that this survey is being conducted in a very anti-Obama
venue, the title of the article is Birthers, Beer and Stuck on ‘Stupidly’ — it is an
environment contemptuous of skeptics. So we can conclude that the results of their poll
are not what they were hoping for.

A scant five years ago, Barack Obama was a little known Illinois state politician, aspiring
to move up to the United States Senate. Undoubtedly, the Marxist handlers behind this
Manchurian candidate had long range plans to capture the US presidency since he was
groomed as a youth by Frank Marshall Davis. But the general public and the press were
not privy to this information.

At that time, there would have been no reason to fabricate a story about Obama’s birth
that would disqualify him for the highest US office. This would be especially true for an
African paper that was simply proud of their native son. So it is reasonable to take the
press clippings of the day at face value. The following item has been on the web all
along, but apparently did not get much attention. It is a June 2004 article from the online
version of the East African Standard, an English-language paper published in Nairobi,
Kenya, titled Kenyan-born Obama all set for US Senate.“

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“US Presidential Polls:Obama, McCain slug it out today
WASHINGTON – Americans will today go to the polls to elect their next President with
Democratic Party candidate, Senator Barack Obama largely favoured to win.
The Kenyan-born Senator will, however, face a stiff competition from his Republican
counterpart, John McCain who has taken the presidential battle to the finishing line with
vigorous campaign strategies.”

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“Americans Decide Today - go Obama (this site hasn't been scrubbed yet)
So far, the odds favour the once underdog in American politics, Obama, the African-American Senator from Illinois State .
A Congressional Quarterly (CQ) politics monitored on BBC put the Kenyan born American ahead of his rival, Senator McCain.”

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“D.C. Tech Official Is Accused of Bribery(Birth Certificate Forgery)
A D.C. government official and a business executive were arrested yesterday on bribery
charges involving city technology contracts that included "ghost" workers and
kickbacks, federal authorities said. Until recently, the technology office was headed
by Vivek Kundra, who has taken a job as President Obama's chief information officer.
A White House official confirmed last night that Kundra has taken a leave of absence.
“Yusuf Acar, 40, who has worked in the technology office since 2004, was charged with
bribery, conspiracy, money laundering and conflict of interest.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas Hibarger told a federal judge that Acar is a flight risk because agents
seized $70,000 in cash in his house and because in recorded conversations, he boasted that he could easily flee to his native Turkey.
Acar also told the informant that he could use
computers to create fake D.C. birth certificates, Hibarger said. “

[American Constitutionalist]

" Comments? "

Yeah, this article is dripping with sarcasm and arrogance...

" And here is another inescapable truth: the fact that Barack Hussein Obama Jr was born in Hawaii has already been proved beyond doubt by your own government. He is a US citizen. His election a year ago and his popularity around the world baffled many Americans but the fact remains he is entitled to be president. Get over it, you conspiracy theorists and people of dubious intelligence who cannot accept your country is led by a person of African descent. Obama has been examined under your microscope for at least two years. If there was proof to the contrary, wouldn’t you have found it by now? "

Show us where you make the claim that our government has vetted and certified Obama as born here in the USA ?
They are laughing at us birthers ( actully, should be called " Constitutionalists " ) because they know they have sealed all of Obama's documents so the public can see them... they have all the goods and they are laughing at us that we can see the information....
If it is true of what he says that our government has proven that he is eligible, then ? show us the proof,, and not some COLB online....
This person makes the assertion that we don't want Obama as President because he is a black african decent, how so ? if that is true, then ? how can you explain conservatives voting for Alan Keys ? Ken Blackwell ? ....

[Juan Medén]

Kenya, that paragon of peace and prosperity. Let’s face it. The world will not rest until the United States is as poor and miserable as they are.

[Iron Munro]

AP declares Obama "Kenyan-Born!

Kenyan Sunday Standard, electronic edition, of June 27, 2004

[Las Vegas Ron]

And here is another inescapable truth: the fact that Barack Hussein Obama Jr was born in Hawaii has already been proved beyond doubt by your own government.

Wow, this guy knows more than we do!

[workerbee]

Oh, those inconvenient truths!

[NotSoModerate]

LOLOL!!

[Las Vegas Ron]

And here is another inescapable truth: the fact that Barack Hussein Obama Jr was born in Hawaii has already been proved beyond doubt by your own government.

Pong

[American Constitutionalist]

Typo Correction :
They are laughing at us birthers ( actually, should be called " Constitutionalists " ) because they know they have sealed all of Obama's documents so the public can't see them... they have all the goods and they are laughing at us that we can see the information....

[A_Former_Democrat]

“And here is another inescapable truth: the fact that Barack Hussein Obama Jr was born in Hawaii has already been proved beyond doubt by your own government.”

Really Judy? Can you show us where and provide said documentation?

I doubt you can. So you nervously laugh it off like whistling past the graveyard

BTW . . I’d worry more about getting a name change . .LOL

[wolfcreek]

“by your own government.”

I feel better already!

[GeronL]

We need to end foreign aid. period.

Let China colonize them.