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Kenya election: Vote-counting begins in crucial poll
BBC News ^ | 4 March 2013 | Last updated at 12:26 ET

Posted on 03/04/2013 11:53:29 AM PST by Olog-hai

Votes are being counted in Kenya after an election that observers describe as the most important in the country’s history.

Polls were due to close at 17:00 (14:00 GMT), but officials said those in queues at that time would be allowed to vote.

Earlier there was violence near the port town of Mombasa, with at least five policemen killed in one attack.

Provisional results suggested the two main presidential candidates were far ahead of the rest of the field. …

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: kenya; obama; odingo

1 posted on 03/04/2013 11:53:40 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Let me guess . . . all the ballots from Cleveland will be for Obambozo . . . Do they have to show that they own a goat in order to vote?


2 posted on 03/04/2013 11:55:32 AM PST by laweeks
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To: Olog-hai; Revolting cat!

If Obama wins, they can have him!


3 posted on 03/04/2013 11:57:39 AM PST by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: Olog-hai

Obungo 5,683,252
Romney 0


4 posted on 03/04/2013 12:30:39 PM PST by twister881
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To: twister881

Thanks for my first laugh of the day. If only I had not been drinking coffee.


5 posted on 03/04/2013 12:55:27 PM PST by atomic_dog
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To: Olog-hai

Russian media reports Obama lost, being distant third for Siaya district. Cornell Rasanga is a winner, Billy Oduola is second. Obama campaigned on promises of US aid from his brother and war on poverty. It seems like Kenya hasn’t bought hope and change.


6 posted on 03/08/2013 8:47:30 PM PST by cunning_fish
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To: Olog-hai
They already killed 15 with machetes.

Of course, the communist foreigner in the WH was busy over there in 2006 campaigning for his cousin Odinga, who has a son named Fidel Castro Odinga.

This country has turned into a Twilight Zone episode.

7 posted on 03/08/2013 8:54:49 PM PST by Rome2000 (THE WASHINGTONIANS AND UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE ARE THE ENEMY -ROTATE THE CAPITAL AMONGST THE STATES)
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To: cunning_fish
Meet Fidel Castro Odinga

Yes, his complete name is Fidel Castro Odinga. He is the eldest son of Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga and a first cousin to Barack Hussein Obama. The late Obama Sr. was the prime minister's maternal uncle. Although Obama Sr. was educated at Harvard and Odinga in East Germany, uncle and nephew were friends and political allies.

Today it is Barack Obama and Raila Odinga who have formed a transcontinental political alliance. In fact, Senator Obama, in an unprecedented breech of protocal, went to Kenya in 2006 to campaign on his cousin's behalf in that country's presidential election.

Raila lost the election when a secret pact was revealed with Kenya's Muslim Brotherhood to institute sharia law in all the country's courts in exchange for their support of his candidacy. This is all the more remarkable because it is Christianity (66%), not Islam (10%), which is the largest religion in Kenya, and English common law, not the Koran, which is the basis for its legal system. Or, perhaps, it is not so remarkable, after all, since both the Odingas and Obamas belong to the 10 percent.

Although not an observant Muslim, Odinga does represent Moammar Qaffafy's oil interests in southern Africa, which may better explain his willingness to tranform his non-Muslim country into a Muslim state as Idi Amin did in Uganda when he was the recipient of the colonel's largesse 30 years ago.

Odinga's connection to Barack Obama, however, has proved more useful in his political career than Qadaffy's billions. It was in the expectation of Obama's election as president, and to ingratiate himself to him, that Odinga's political rival offered him the premiership as a consolation prize.

When Prime Minister Odinga named his son "Fidel Castro," he broke with Kenyan tradition as he should have named him for the boy's grandfather Oginga Odinga (the Kenyan "Fidel Castro"), a Marxist-Leninist revolutionary who led an unsuccessful coup to topple the government of Kenya on behalf of the Soviets.

It is not known whether Oginga Odinga's brother-in-law, Obama Sr., was involved in the coup, though given the tribal character of politics in Kenya it would be difficult to imagine that he wasn't at least aware of it or wouldn't have profited by it even if he didn't contribute to it. Indeed, that may have been the reason for Obama Sr.'s failed political career in Kenya.

It is certainly ironic that Obama Sr.'s star eclipsed because of his relationship to Oginga Odinga, whereas his son Raila's rose because of his connection to Obama Jr.

We wonder how things might have turned out if Obama Sr., the Harvard-trained economist, had followed his cousin's example and named his American-born son "John Maynard Keynes Obama." Posted by Manuel A.Tellechea


8 posted on 03/08/2013 9:02:01 PM PST by Rome2000 (THE WASHINGTONIANS AND UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE ARE THE ENEMY -ROTATE THE CAPITAL AMONGST THE STATES)
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To: cunning_fish
If Odinga loses again he'll just send out his gangs to hack to death and burn the opposition until they agree to share power with him, just like last time.

Obamas cousin is a vicious murderer and arch criminal, although a piker compared to Barry Hussein, who has stolen trillions from taxpayers and diverted it his marxist allies in order to win reelection.

9 posted on 03/08/2013 9:08:30 PM PST by Rome2000 (THE WASHINGTONIANS AND UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE ARE THE ENEMY -ROTATE THE CAPITAL AMONGST THE STATES)
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