BARAK OBAMA’S FAMILY TIES
Liberalswill tell you that America is hated around the world because of George Bush. They will tell you that Bush doesn’t know how to relate to foreign leaders and has, by virtue of his inability to relate, alienated us from the rest of the world.
Some of those liberals, now supporting Barak Obama, will tell you that Obama is the only candidate who can “heal these wounds” caused by Bush. Obama has campaigned on the idea that he, and he alone, will be able to mend fences and “open a dialog” with foreign leaders, even our enemies. With all that being said, it should be fair game to look at who Barak Obama calls “a friend” from a foreign land.
Meet Raila Odinga.
Who is Raila Odinga? Odinga is a major political figure in Kenya. He is a candidate for president and lays claim to having won the most recent election, even though helost the popular vote. Odinga’s claim is that the election was rife with voter fraud. Odinga is no stranger to claims of fraud and misdeeds. He has been accused of treason, voter fraud and other crimes. His supporters have burned Christians alive and murdered supporters of his political opponenets. He is also cozy with the radical muslim movement in Kenya that is hoping for Sharia Law.
Odinga is a self-described social democrat, which puts only a little distance between him and his father, an avowed socialist. His party, the LDP, is affiliated to the Liberal International group. Recently, there have been calls by the Kenyan Minister of Justice for Raila to answer allegations regarding a shady land deal involving the Kisumu Molasses Plant. But that’s not the first accusation of impropriety leveled at Odinga.
Odinga was also accused of seizing property from citizens illegally, while serving as Minister of Roads. Houses owned by people who supported Odinga’s opposition or were from different tribes, were confiscated without compensation and destroyed. Members of the Kenyan’ press
In 2007 Raila Odinga was rumoured to have signed a memorandum of understanding with the National Muslim Leaders Forum, NAMLEF. Kenyan Muslim leaders have denied that Odinga’s party had promised to introduce Sharia for Muslims if it won elections, but said its deal with the Orange Democratic Movement was to end the current discrimination against Muslims.
Raila Odinga is so commited to the idea of socialism that he named his oldest son, Fidel, after Fidel Castro. Their youngest child, Winnie, is named after Winnie Mandela.
So what’s all this got to do with Barak Obama. Well as you can see in the picture above, Obama and Odinga are fairly well acquaited. In fact, Odinga claims to be Obama’s cousin through his father, Barack Obama Sr. Odinga claims Obama Sr. was his maternal uncle. This claim has not been corroborated, but Obama Sr. did come from the same Luo tribe as Odinga.
Ugandan officials recently reported that hundreds of members of newly re-elected President Mwai Kibaki’s Kikuyu tribe were crossing the border from Kenya, fearing death at the hands of mobs loyal to defeated challenger Raila Odinga. Also, 35 children and adults sheltering in a church near the western town of Eldoret were burnt alive by an angry mob of Odinga supporters in one of the worst incidents since the December 27 election.
With friends like this around the world, Barak Obama is sure to do a fine job of “repairing the damage done by Bush.”
No wonder Hillary is still in the race.
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