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Obama asks Americans to step up, volunteer COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Continuing to press the themes of values, faith and patriotism, Sen. Barack Obama exhorted Americans on Wednesday to volunteer for public service, pledging to dramatically expand opportunities for those accepting his challenge. On a campaign swing that included visits to military bases, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee sought to emphasize his own love of country. "Loving your country shouldn't just mean watching fireworks on the Fourth of July," he told a small audience at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. "Loving your country must mean accepting your responsibility...

obama-odinga cousins? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBJouPhws1M Obama Root’s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOn9NtEUiv4&NR=1 Senator Obama Goes to Africa http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTMaKhUSTQU&feature=related Listen to his words on the Keyan Government. Just Words again from Barack Obama. Al Jazeera interviews Raila Odinga - 11 Jan 08 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-acT5ajRjY Who is Raila Odinga and his relationship to Barack Obama Obama, Kenya, and the Muslim connection http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7Oiq2Ze4Mg&feature=related Hells Bells Barack Obama and Raila Odinga http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjCXCdXKpt8 Obama’s Cousin signs Jihad agreement against the West. The Obama and Odinga Connection http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpvLV3d1Eq4 Obama under the spell of Raila Odinga? Odinga says Rigged elections? Will Obama say the same thing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBJouPhws1M&feature=related Mama Obama flooded by US media http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEqC7jPM4DI&feature=related...

.." Odinga also responded to media reports that Mugabe said that the Prime Minister of Kenya [is] persona non grata in Zimbabwe..."

"At the University of Nairobi two hours later, the senator offered more pointed criticism, something he's done almost every day since arriving last week. After remaining largely silent, the government of President Mwai Kibaki is beginning to respond, suggesting that Obama may have fallen under the spell of opposition leader Raila Odinga. A potential presidential candidate himself, Odinga's been at Obama's elbow here fairly often and is a member of the Obama family's Luo tribe. "Sen. Obama has to look at critically about where he's receiving his advice from," said government spokesman Dr. Alfred Mutua. "Just because somebody, somewhere wants...

"For Odinga it was a PR triumph of the first order. The rock star’s glitter rubbed off on his putative cousin by the bucket. Nor did Obama limit his role to boosting Odinga’s image. The senator also criticized the incumbent Kenyan president. Mike Flannery, political editor for CBS2 in Nairobi, reported that Obama had accused the Kibaki government (Odinga’s opponent) of corruption “almost every day since he arrived.” The political temperature grew hotter than the Nairobi summer. Dr. Alfred Matua, a government spokesman, accused Odinga of “using Obama as his stooge, as his puppet.” Matua added, “Sen. Obama has to...

Senator Barack Obama is absent from the list of dignitaries with whom Prime Minister Raila Odinga is scheduled to confer during his current visit to Washington. Prime Minister Raila Odinga during a recent visit in London. Peter Ogego, Kenya’s ambassador to the United States, told the ‘Nation’ on Sunday that an Odinga-Obama meeting is “not in the programme” of official talks that get underway on Tuesday. [Snip]... Mr Odinga has said he is a cousin of Mr Obama’s, although the senator’s representatives deny that the two men are related...

As the post-election violence in Zimbabwe mirrored that of Kenya, Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga had recently weighed in on the situation. The countries of Kenya and Zimbabwe may seem alike yet seem very different from one another at the same time. Back in December of 2007, Kenya was having presidential elections. It was the incumbent Mwai Kibaki of the Party of National Unity (PNU) against opposition candidate and Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) leader Raila Odinga. Odinga claimed to have won and had accused Kibaki of rigging the elections. As a result, a humanitarian crisis was created as Kenya was...

As he reminded us again after losing narrowly to Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire, Barack Obama likes to evoke Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech. We must all hope that, like King's, Mr. Obama's dream is "deeply rooted in the American dream." But before giving him the keys to the White House, Americans might like to know a little more about the content of Mr. Obama's dream. Let me propose an unlikely place to start looking: Kenya. SNIP Who is behind these massacres? The opposition leader, Raila Odinga, has had a good press in the West, after he...

If we Kenyans were granted one wish for 2008, we would request the right to vote for Democratic Senator Barack Obama in the U.S. presidential elections. There would be no more questions about whether he is "black enough." Kenyans believe in Barack Obama so much that I'm willing to bet that if he were to run against our President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga -- the two men at the center of Kenya's disputed December 27 election that has led to widespread tribal violence -- he would win in a landslide. The absolute support that Kenyans offer Obama...

NAIROBI, Kenya - Officials say President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga have reached deal on a coalition Cabinet. The officials say Kibaki and Odinga agreed on a coalition Cabinet following seven hours of talks and will announce the new ministers Sunday afternoon. The officials, who requested not to be further identified, spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the talks. Isaiya Kabira, spokesman for Kibaki, told The Associated Press that there is a "good chance" a coalition Cabinet will be announced Sunday.

Hillary Clinton and John McCain both ripped into Barack Obama Friday for reportedly saying residents of small-town America “cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them” out of bitterness over lost jobs, a remark his opponents interpreted as arrogant...

U.S. Urges Kenyan Leaders to Fulfill Power Sharing Commitment Statement by Secretary Condoleezza Rice Washington, DC April 8, 2008 On April 7 I spoke separately by telephone with President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister-designate Raila Odinga to urge them to implement real power sharing by agreeing on the composition of their coalition cabinet. Both emphasized to me their strong commitment to do so. It is imperative that they form the cabinet without further delay and address the vitally important work of the nation. The United States and the entire international community stand ready to assist the coalition government and to...

Excellent Video: Think of the Katangese as Israel, and Patrice Lumumba and the Central Congolese government as the PLO/PA/HAMAS. The UN, of course, plays the same role as ever...to bring about a world government dominated by socialists and communists. Description: UN troops wage an unprovoked war against anti-communist Katanga in 1960 and 1962. The last bastion of the free market in the Congo was decimated by UN forces in 1963 to bring it under Congolese communist control. If you don't want to watch the entire thing (an early 1960's documentary), fast forward to the end where Katanga's ill-fated and heroic...

BBC NEWS Friday, 12 November, 2004 'Miracle baby' a victim – judge Kenyan police allege the Gilbert Deya Ministries is an international baby-snatching ring and have asked the British government to extradite Mr Deya. They say their investigation revolves around the disappearance of babies from Nairobi's Pumwani Maternity Hospital and involves suspects in Britain, Ghana, Nigeria, Uganda and Kenya. In September they took 20 of Mr Deya's "miracle babies" into care in Nairobi after they were found to have no genetic link to the women claiming to be their mothers. The pastor denies involvement in child trafficking and his lawyer...

NAIROBI: Kenyan political leaders ended a two-month standoff on Thursday that had plunged this country into violence, reaching a long-sought agreement to share power between the government and the opposition. The country seemed to let out a collective hooray as Mwai Kibaki, the president, and Raila Odinga, the top opposition leader, sat down at a desk in front of the president's office, with a bank of television cameras rolling, and signed an agreement that creates a powerful prime minister position for Odinga and splits cabinet positions between the government and the opposition... For remainder of article, click link

...Whether Mr. Odinga has ordered his men to commit murder and arson is unclear. But his own background does not exactly suggest enthusiasm for democracy and the rule of law. Mr. Odinga's father, Oginga Odinga, led the Communist opposition during the Cold War and Raila Odinga was educated in Communist East Germany. In 1982 he was implicated in a failed coup against the then president Daniel Arap Moi. His eldest son is named after Fidel Castro and his daughter after Winnie Mandela. Even more sinister has been Mr. Odinga's electoral pact with the National Muslim Leaders' Forum — a hardline...

As he reminded us again after losing narrowly to Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire, Barack Obama likes to evoke Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech. We must all hope that, like King's, Mr. Obama's dream is "deeply rooted in the American dream." But before giving him the keys to the White House, Americans might like to know a little more about the content of Mr. Obama's dream. Let me propose an unlikely place to start looking: Kenya. Even in the midst of the primaries, the horrific scenes from that country since the disputed election on December 27 will...

SECRET CABINET PAPERS How Kenya’s best kept secret became a hotbed of insurgents By John Kamau Dateline: Saturday, December 12, 1964. At around 3 pm, just as Kenya turned into a republic, the newly sworn-in President Jomo Kenyatta’s convoy drove from State House, Nairobi to the flag-decked Thika Road to officially open what he described as "Kenya’s best kept secret" and Jamhuri Day’s "big surprise" – the so-called Lumumba Institute. He didn’t know it was a communist school of politics designed to topple him. Forty years later, questions are still asked about how the new Vice President, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga,...

Who is Odinga? Odinga is Obama's cousin. Odinga and Obama are from the same Kenyan Luo tribe. Odinga supporters are the people that are burning Christians alive, trapped inside churches ... Most of Odinga's fanatical followers are radical islamists who have pushed for Islamic Sharia Law... ... In 2006, Obama took a trip to Kenya and voiced his support for his fellow tribesman and political ally, Odinga. Obama also directly attacked the sitting Kenyan leadership (Kibaki) calling them 'corrupt'... ... Odinga is the cat that ran on the socialist democrat ticket in Kenya and lost to sitting president Kibaki. ......

NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenya's president and the top opposition leader have joined to appeal for US$400 million for an emergency humanitarian and reconstruction program. The call came on the day a global human rights watchdog accused politicians and police of helping orchestrate postelection violence in Kenya. President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga presented representatives of 40 embassies - including Kenya's major creditors Canada, China, the European Union, Japan, Russia and the United States - with an outline of the emergency program Monday. "We want to restore peace; we want to resettle as well as reintegrate the displaced to...