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Just over 70 percent of Carnegie Mellon students plan to vote for candidate Senator Barack Obama (D–Ill.) as opposed to Senator Hillary Clinton (D–N.Y.).
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Apr 22, 2008 at 12:11 AM Report comment
--Obama just said at the SF fundraiser that he doesn't need a VP with foreign policy cred--since he feels he can cover that on his own---So, the issue of his judgement in becoming involved/becoming a divisive factor in a Kenyan election is FAIR GAME.
ODINGA was set up in the oil business by Muammar Quaddafi (no, I'm not kidding),
was educated in Communist East Germany, (Herder Institute, Leipzig & Otto von Guericke Tech. Institute, Magdeburg)
named his first child "Fidel" (yeah, really)
and when he and his Luo followers disputed the election they torched a church with 100 Christian Kikuyu woman & children inside--burning them alive.
Odinga's followers continued to engage in "clear ethnic cleansing" according to US Envoy Jendayi Frazer.
Perhaps most troubling is Odinga's links to Islamic extremists.
On 8/29/07, Odinga signed a secret agreement (exposed 11/27) with Sheikh Abdullah Abdi in which he agreed to institute Islamic law in exchange for Abdi's support--thereby potentially enslaving millions of Christian Kenyan women.
Is Obama responsible for his relatives? Perhaps not. However,
OBAMA campaigned for ODINGA ("your agent for change"-sound familiar?) in August 2006--to such a degree that the Opposition called him Odinga's "stooge". Odinga has since visited Obama on a fundraising tour of the US in 2007.
Further: On his visit to Africa (campaigning for cousin Raila Odinga), Senator Barack Obama said (according to Kenya’s “The Standard”):
"I am so proud to come back home. It means a lot to me that the people of my father and grandfather are here to greet me with such warmth," and “The people of my grandfather, I am proud to be with you and I bring you greetings from the US Government," Obama, 45, told the crowd. [I guess his African grandmother like his American one-- doesn’t count for much]
"I am so proud to be back home … it really touches my heart when my relatives come out in large numbers to welcome me," he said.
Obama holds dual Kenya/US citizenship and his church promotes “a non-negotiable commitment to Africa” So, where is “home” for Senator Obama:--Chicago ......or Kenya???
Since many experts consider Kenya still to be potentially on the verge of civil war, what does this mean for the security interests of The United States?
And, what does associating/promoting someone like Odinga say about Barack Obama’s judgment?
A fair question, wouldn’t you say?
Read for yourself:
http://eakenya.org/newsevents/article.htm?id=8
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7176683.stm
http://www.thestar.com/News/World/article/290390
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=57363 <http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=57363>
http://africanpress.wordpress.com/2007/04/26/how-rich-is-raila-the-odm-kenya-presidential-aspirant/
<http://www.raila07.com/>