Obama’s Foreign Policy Experience in Kenya: Why Won’t He Mention It ?
About the Author: I also write under the names Rudi Stettner and Magdeburger Joe. My home websites are rudistettner.com and magdeburgerjoe.com. Through my writing I like to promote a "labour conservative " social outlook as well as my eclectic tastes and interests Read more from this authorBarack Obama has much less experience in government than John McCain. Would it not be in Obama’s interest to fatten his resume whenever possible?
There are people helping Obama put together a complete resume of his prior experience. He is not happy. He is not grateful. The people who are putting together a list of his previous work in public affairs are supporting McCain. When You see what they have put together, it will not make you fond of Barack Obama.
This is not Barack Obama’s first presidential campaign. He campaigned for a man who has boasted of being his cousin named Raila Odinga. His slogan was “Vote For Change.” Sound familiar?
Odinga’s platform had a socialist ring to it. He also got the support of Kenyan Muslims by advocating “shaaria” or Islamic law in areas with large Muslim populations. The election was close, with allegations of fraud. Supporters of Obama’s cousins staged violent protests which degenerated into pogroms.In one recorded case, a church was burnt down with women and children in it by Odinga supporters. The United Nations ended up rewarding Odinga’s thuggery with a position in a national unity type government.
Government in Africa is often complex. Kenya was a British creation in which forty different tribes are roped together in a reluctant arrangement of common nationhood. In many, if not most instances tribal affiliation trumps national loyalty.
It is on the basis of familial loyalty as a subset of a larger tribal loyalty that Obama was introduced to the Kenyan electorate. Where a multifaceted view would have served the interests of truth far better, Obama took the word of family over common sense and waded into the crowds at Kenyan campaign rallies at the side of his cousin Raila Odinga.
Any time you venture into a foreign election, you run the risk of a conflict with U.S. interests. Kenyan Muslims do not want Kenya to participate in America’s war on terror. Kenyan Muslims are supporting Raila Odinga. Whose side is Obama on? He appointed a personal liaison in his Senate office as a liaison to Raila Odinga.
According to a story in World Net Daily e-mails sent by Obama himself link Obama intimately to the Odinga campaign. World Net daily reports as follows.
“The e-mails, apparently sent by Obama himself, referenced the senator’s aide, Mark Lippert. The e-mails were provided to WND by an insider in Kenya who fled Odinga’s Orange Democratic political party and requested anonymity because of the danger of retaliation.The e-mails, identified as coming from Obama’s Senate office, are addressed to “railaaodinga” at a yahoo.com address.
A WND e-mail to the same Obama address generated an automated response and a list of contacts for Obama’s offices. A WND e-mail sent to the Odinga e-mail address didn’t generate a response.
One e-mail purportedly from Obama, dated Dec. 22, 2006, read, “I will kindly wish that all our correspondence [be] handled by Mr Mark Lippert. I have already instructed him. This will be for my own security both for now and in future.”Lippert is a long-term Obama Senate staff member identified by the Chicago Sun-Times as a member of Obama’s “inner circle of foreign policy experts.” The Sun-Times has said if Obama is elected president, his secretary of state and national security advisers are expected to come from this inner circle.
In December 2006 Odinga was in the early stages of planning to run as the ODP candidate against President Mwai Kibaki.
The e-mails from Obama’s office to Odinga’s presidential campaign seem to show Obama and Odinga, who once told the BBC he is Obama’s cousin, had discussions about Odinga’s 2007 campaign.”
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Link to WND article about Obama and Odinga
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Why is more not being made of Obama’s active and highly visible support for a candidate who was against American interests. Obama was a US Senator at the time of his active participation in Kenyan elections. Will he put his loyalty to his family and the Luo tribe over America’s interests or will America come first? What Senate business did he put on the back burner while campaigning for Odinga?
Obama has a lot of foreign policy experience . But he won’t talk about it. Why not? Is it really the kind of experience we are looking for?
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Despicable…
There’s just so much to learn about this man. How he has pushed the limits and gotten away with it, and on top of that, run for president, baffles me.
The journalism profession isn’t asleep at the switch. They’ve given the truth the chair and pulled the switch
Fatten his resume ? This guy wont even show anyone his birth certificate. I understand a federal judge in Philly of all places has ordered the campaign to produce it. And you want him to talk about cuz’in Odinga…fat chance. You think McCain would have hit him with this during one of the debates ! I think they are all playing for the other team.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
The New World Order is here.
I’ve got a feeling that Obama’s day of reckoning is coming.
In 231 years of US Presidential politics, I can not recall learning about one which has included a candidate which has so fantastically divided this nation that Obama has.
Obama’s days are numbered, the other half of this nation that is outraged at the lack of Obama vetting is starting to grow from agitated to violently angry.
Stories like this are exactly why I have been telling several of my friends (all Obama supporters) that they have no clue who they are truly electing. It terrifies me to think that someone this radical is very close to being our next president. Obama supporters will be very sorry that they fell for this. We can’t be the only ones left in America that feel this way.
Jen
Well, your friends may not know who they are electing, but Louis Farrakhan knows: they are electing the Messiah.
I have never opted out of the United States of America in my life. But Barack Obama - as far as I’m concerned - will not be President of the United States of America even if he’s elected; he’ll be the President of God damn America as envisioned by his reverend for 23 years, Jeremiah Wright.
John Edwards got a lot of headway recasting Marx’s proletariat vs. bourgeoisie into “two Americas.”
Well, there ARE two Americas: the “United States of America,” and “God damn America.” And I for one will not be any part of the latter version beyond the most minimal legal requirement.
I am a latter day Dietrich Bonhoeffer, watching his beloved Germany become Nazi Germany. Just as economic disaster and moral stupidity caused people to vote for Hitler and Nazism, they are now voting for Obama and God damn America. Try as you might, you cannot stop stupid people from being stupid; you can only try to warn the lemmings running along with the pack who still have some vestige of common sense.
Right on Michael. John McCain needs to go after the real meat in this election. Barack Obama’s past is prologue - thank you Sen. Biden for reminding us - to what kind of presidency he would provide us.