Posted on 11/04/2008 12:30:28 PM PST by SJackson
Times reporter attends the Obama family victory feast in the village of Kogelo, Kenya, and brings along a live goat
There's only thing to take to a Kenyan election victory feast: a goat. Preferably still breathing - “a sign of freshness“ - and with big testicles, apparently the sign of quality breeding.
And so it was that I found myself bouncing along a dirt track towards the ancestral home of the Obamas in a saloon car with the sound of John the goat bleating miserably from the boot.
It had not been easy finding such a quality specimen. The local livestock market had mostly sheep and cattle, with only a few scrawny goats on hand.
Instead, John was spotted at the side of the road by my driver George, who was impressed by the size of its belly and, well, other attributes.
He was mine for 2500 shillings, a little under £20, and roughly the price of 20 pints of beer or eight malaria-proof bednets.
“This is a fine animal,” said Abongo Malik Obama, at the lush family homestead in the far west of Kenya, surrounded by grazing cattle and fields thick with maize. “You are certainly welcome now to stay and sit around the fire tonight.” By then John will be nyama choma - the Swahili term for grilled meat.
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And the media had the NERVE to make fun of Sarah Palin and Alaska.
Have I ever told you I hate the Media?
I hope FR starts moving faster because otherwise I’m stuck with nothing but Katie Couric on election night!
“I have a picture in my mind of these people riding down Pennsylvania Avenue like the Clampetts and showing up at the White House.”
You’ll appreciate this one.
http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s2i43126
Obama to turn White House into Safe House for Illegal Immigrants
The new White House Safe House for illegal immigrants will go by the code name Auntie Zeituni’s Pantry[snip]
Either they're all vegetarians, or they never learned you have to kill them before eating them.
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