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Nairobi, Kenya (CNN) -- No one at the Golf Club remembers if Barack Obama, Sr., a high-flying civil servant, ever played here. Perhaps he played up the road at the Royal Nairobi Golf Club. The club scene is certainly the natural ecosystem for Harvard-educated economist, and the hordes of other young Africans returning from the world's top universities to take over the country... Kibera, Kenya's biggest slum, is Obamaland... living conditions are terrible. They have given rise to a peculiar activity, slum tourism, where wealthy people journey from all over the world to come and see squalor.

NAIROBI (AFP) - Kenya stepped up criticism of US Senator Barack Obama, accusing him of insulting the Kenyan people and trivializing their achievements during a visit to his father's homeland. Two days after abruptly changing its tone on Obama, who had been welcomed as a returning hero but incurred official wrath with blistering criticism of corruption and ethnic divisions, Nairobi launched a new attack on the lawmaker. Less than 24 hours after the rising US political star left Kenya to continue an African tour, government spokesman Alfred Mutua blasted Obama for choosing "to dwell on non-issues" in a nationally televised...

Only my third vanity ever. Help me understand this: Driving to work this morning, I was subjected to a Kerry Ad on WBZ every five minutes, the the extant that I gave up and shut off the radio. WHY is a Massachusetts "Favorite Son" candidate spending all this money on his OWN STATE??? WBZ is owned by the Boston Globe, which is owned by the NYT. They are running the ads free. The ads are of the Attack Variety, e.g flu shots,etc. Are they saying Kerry is a lost cause, but are merely attempting as much damage to W's second...