Barack Obama’s visit to Ghana is snub to Kenya, his ancestral home

The Times ^ | July 10, 2009 | Jonathan Clayton

[george76]

Barack Obama, Kenya’s most famous son, may have a deep attachment to his ancestral homeland but he is not letting emotions rule his head. On his first visit to sub-Saharan Africa since his election, he has snubbed his father’s birthplace by choosing to go to Ghana.

The Kenyan Government and its notoriously corrupt and quarrelsome ministers are not happy...

Kenya has been left to ponder what might have been. In the heady days of Mr Obama’s ascent to the White House, politicians — particularly those from the Luo tribe of his late father — had envisioned an African-style “special relationship”.

Kenya’s elite whispered of preferential trade and investment deals, increased business opportunities and an image-boosting first visit to their country by an incumbent US president...

[coconutt2000]

Obama doesn’t want to draw too much attention to the fact that he’s a Kenyan.

[Arthur McGowan]

Ancestral home? I.e., native land.

[dforest]

He is probably worried his butcher relative Odinga will want to hang around him....maybe they could both talk about how they exchanged email on how to fool the folks with that hope and change bilge.

[hiho hiho]

see- http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2290088/posts

[george76]

Kenyan

[John123]

had envisioned an African-style “special relationship

In other words... money. More hopeandchange stuff alert...

[Third Person]

Kenya just got thrown under the bus.

[YankeeReb]

Barack Obama’s visit to Ghana is snub to Kenya, his ancestral home

That's OK this whole administration including the Czars is a snub to the constitution.

[jakerobins]

Not even gonna say hello to your brother....You could at least drop bye and give him a Hut-Warming gift..C’mon.......Barry

[Colonel_Flagg]

On his first visit to sub-Saharan Africa since his election, he has snubbed his father’s birthplace by choosing to go to Ghana.

There.

[LucyT]

Thanks, george76.

Kenyan

.... Unless he was born in Ghana.

There was a large, black, ex-pat group living in Ghana, including Maya Angelou, and may be why his sister is named Maya. The Ghana black ex-pat community was full of Malcolm X friends and supporters ... who also believed in Pan-Africanism.

[Sioux-san]

The real baby daddy (uncle Frank) would be proud of Barry!

[shield]

Oh my......hopefully they’ll get so upset they send us his BC...........

[PhiKapMom]

If you get a chance take a look at the picture of Malcolm X — the resemblence is uncanny.

[MissDairyGoodnessVT]

I agree with you and The Times has the wrong spin on this one- Barry wouldn’t put one foot in there because of the consequences and we know what those are

[HighlyOpinionated]

0bama doesn't want the MSM to see all the statues Kenya has erected to himself as their NATIVE SON.

[Fred Nerks]

[LucyT]

Thanks, Fred Nerks.

Pinging Sioux-san to #18.

[Fred Nerks]