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Jerome Corsi, a Harvard alum, doesn’t think so highly of his fellow Harvard alum, Barack Obama. For evidence, you can check out his book The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality. Too bad for Corsi, Kenya has Obama’s back.
The American neo-conservative author was in the African nation, birthplace of Obama’s father and home to his relatives, to promote the book and stir up some anti-Obama sentiment. However, before he could launch the smear campaign, Corsi was held for questioning by immigration authorities. The Times Online explains the situation:
Jerome Corsi, of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth fame, was this morning being held after failing to reckon with Obamamania.
He had been planning to launch his book, entitled The Obama Nation Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality, before travelling to one of Nairobi’s slums to donate money to the Senator’s half-brother George, who was found living in squalid conditions two months ago.
If you fail to reckon with Obamamania in Kenya, you will feel the consequences. The population’s obsession with the presidential candidate exceeds even America’s droolfest over the guy… not that I’m implying his detention by the Kenyan government has anything to do with them valiantly protecting the honor of their beloved sort of almost countryman.
No, immigration officials say, Corsi was detained for questioning about a simple work permit issue. However, another source says Corsi is being questioned because of references to Raila Odinga, the Kenyan prime minister, and allegations that Obama’s Muslim supporters incited violence after the Kenyan election.
Whatever the real reason, Corsi’s best bet would be to back peddle and pledge his allegiance to Obamamania. He can get back to the anti-Obama campaign when he returns to America, a country that appreciates factual errors and character smears.
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joe Posted 10/07/2008 10:45 AMReply
Good Riddance, I say. Posted 10/07/2008 2:46 PMReply
Embarassing...
Obama may well BE the biggest fraud in history. Rumor has it that Corsi was in Kenya looking for Obama's birth certificate. Apparently there is some evidence that he may have been born there, and thus would be ineligable for the Presidency. Posted 10/08/2008 11:54 PMReply
Remember what Jefferson said:
"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." Posted 10/09/2008 12:02 AMReply
Read this article from the African Free Press
The Real Barack Obama
The truth behind the canditate - "Barack Obama Exposed" - Free!
www.HumanEvents.com
By Paula Abeles Friday, August 8, 2008
The mainstream media has justified ignoring this story based on a âconspiracy theoryâ chain email (politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/465) making the rounds from some African missionaries. Politifact.com examined the emailâwhich claims Obama gave $1MM to Odingaâs campaignâand declared it âa pants on fireâ.
However, the underlying (more important issues) are verifiably true. In August and September 2006, Senator Barack Obama traveled to South Africa, Chad, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Chad and Kenya as a congressional delegation of one (Codel Obama) (âCodel Obamaâ The Hill 9/7/2006) While in Kenya, Obama consistently appeared at the side of fellow Luo Raila Odinga (âyour agent for changeâ), who was running for President. (âSenator Rebukes Kenyaâs Corruptionâ Chicago Sun Times 8/29/2006) Because of his African heritage, Obama was treated as a virtual âHead of Stateâ in Kenya While campaigning with Odinga, Obama was openly critical of governmental corruption under President Mibaki âusually a fair, if undiplomatic, criticism from an objective observer.
However, Kibakiâs government has been better than mostâand Odinga has his own corruption issues.(
âLoud and Populist, But No Political Outsiderâ The Guardian 12/29/2007)
Obamaâs partisan support for Odinga was considered so transparent, that the Kenyan Government spokesman, Alfred Matua, complained of political posturing to aid Odingaâs election chances: âIt is very clear that the senator has been used as a puppet to perpetuate opposition politics,â(âWalking The World Stageâ Newsweek 9/11/06) And, ââ¦we earlier thought he was mature in his assessment of Kenyan and African politics,â Mutua told AFP.âWe forgive him because it is his first time in the Senate and he is yet to mature into understanding issues of foreign policy,â he said.â(âObamaâs Kenya Honeymoon Ends Abruptly After Graft Rebukeâ 8/29/06) Subsequently, Ambassador Ogingo Ogego made a public complaint to the US.(âKenyan Envoy Kicks Off Diplomatic Rowâ My Africa 9/27/2006)
Raila Odinga subsequently lost the controversial (probably rigged) presidential election. In what appeared to manyâincluding Human Rights Watchâ as a coordinated strategy from the top, (âViolence We Fled was Planned, Say Kenyan Refugeesâ Reuters 1/26/2008 and âKenya: Violence Planned Before Poll, Says Reportâ The Nation 3/18/2008) his Luo supporters (a core of whom call themselves The Talibanâ(âEthnic Gangs Rile Kenyan Slumsâ Newsweek 1/10/08)) engaged in what US Envoy Jendayi Frazer called âclear ethnic cleansingâ (âUS Envoy Calls Violence in Kenya âEthnic Cleansingââ USA Today 1/30/2008) of the Kikuyu opposition.
Odingaâs supporters went on a rampageâburning Kikuyu homes and businesses, (âEthnic Cleansing in Luolandâ The Economist 2/7/2008) raping Kikuyu women, and murdering everyone in their pathâincluding at least 50 Christian Kikuyu woman & children who had sought refuge in a church. They burned them alive. (âMob Burns Kenyans Seeking Refuge In Churchâ CNN 1/10/2008)
âWe have evidence that ODM [Odingaâs party] politicians and local leaders actively fomented some post-election violence,â Georgette Gagnon, acting Africa director for the New York based Human Rights Watch (HRW), said on Thursday.â (Violence We Fled was Planned, Say Kenyan Refugeesâ Ibid)
So: who is Raila Odinga that Senator Obama would expend his political capital and risk the goodwill of half the population of Kenya?
Their relationship is unclear. The BBC initially reported that Obama and Odinga were first cousins.(âOdinga Says Obama is His Cousinâ 1/8/2008) The Obama campaign has since denied a familial relationship. Raila Odingaâs father Oginga Odinga was leader of the âKenya Peopleâs Unionâ and perceived as a âcommitted socialistâ (âOginga Odinga: Kenyaâs Most Persecuted Politicianâ Kenya: Key Issues 8/21.2002). Odinga Sr. was also the political ally of fellow Luo; Barack Obama Sr.(The Risks of Knowledge (Ohio University Press, 2004) p. 182)
What we do know about Odinga is not good. A former Minister of Energy, Odinga is reported to have been set up in the oil business by the al Bakri Group and Muammar Quaddafi (âHow Rich is Raila-The ODM Kenya Presidential Aspirant?â African Press 4/26/2007) Abdel Qader Bakri (or- Abdulkader al Bakri) was listed on the infamous âGolden Chainââan internal Al-Queda list of wealthy Saudi financial sponsors seized by Bosnian police in a Islamic âcharityâ raid in 2001. (âTerrorist Financing Staff Monograph 9/11 Commission and âThe Golden Chainâ) According to his website, Odinga was educated in Communist East Germany, (Herder Institute, Leipzig & Otto von Guericke Tech. Institute, Magdeburg) (http://www.raila07.com) Odingaâs eldest son is named âFidelâ (http://www.raila07.com)
Perhaps most troubling is Odingaâs links to Islamic extremists in Kenya. According to Voice of America and the Evangelical Alliance of Kenya, on 8/29/07, Odinga signed a secret agreement (exposed 11/27) with Sheikh Abdullah Abdi of the National Muslim
Leaders Forum (NAMLEF) in which he agreed to institute Islamic law in exchange for Abdiâs support (eakenya.org)âthereby potentially disenfranchising and curtailing the liberties of millions of Christian Kenyan women. Further, he promised that Muslims suspected of terrorism would be safe from extraditionâthereby establishing a âsafe havenâ for terrorists in Kenya.
After the public outcry, Odinga denied signing a secret agreement. Angry at Odingaâs apparent repudiation, a member of NAMLEF subsequently released the agreement to the press. Odinga then claimed the document was a forgery, but acknowledged a secret agreement had been signed in exchange for Muslim support. Finally, under constant pressure, Odinga released what he claimed was the actual document (âRealâ MOU) a considerably watered down version of the original; but still anathema to many Christian groups. âIn response to the revelations, The Evangelical Alliance of Kenya released a statement in which church leaders said Raila, in both MOUs, âcomes across as a presumptive Muslim president bent on forcing Islamic law, religion and culture down the throats of the Kenyan people in total disregard of the Constitutionally guaranteed rights of freedom of worship and equal protection of the lawââ (âConcerns Raised Over Alleged Vow To Enforce Islamic Law in Kenyaâ Christian Post 12/18/2007) To many westerners, the idea of imposing Sharia in a predominantly Christian country may have seemed fanciful. However, Kenya has had Sharia courts for family law (not criminal law)âcalled Khadi courtsâsince 1963.
For the US and âthe war on terrorââthe most worrisome sectionâcontained in both agreementsâ concerns extradition (or renditions) of suspected terrorists to the US and
elsewhere. The Kibaki government had been a leading supporter of the USâs efforts to dismantle Al-Queda cells in Kenya (National Commission of Terrorist Attacks on the United States- 9/11 Report) and elsewhere. Raila Odinga made opposition to the governmentâs crackdown of suspected Al Queda supporters a cornerstone of his campaign âIn Kimanthiâs view, âonly some of the leadersââ¦were Al Queda sympathizers. The renditions- along with frequent police sweeps on the Swahili coast-had become an emotional issue in the presidential race. Islamic outrage had placed the incumbent, Kibaki, on the defensive and provided Raila Odinga with a tool to rally the support of Kenyaâs Muslims.â (âThe African Frontâ New York Times Magazine 12/23/2007) And, âOur government will not be held at ransom to extradite Muslims to foreign landsâ, Odinga told supporters in the coastal city of Mombassa. âThis government is behaving as if it is still a colony.ââ (âOutcome of Kenyan Election Could Impact Anti-Terror Cooperationâ CNSNews.com 10/17/2007)
So, how much of a national security concern is this? Well, actually: huge ââ¦proximity to the volatile statesâ¦including Somalia and Sudan have made Kenya especially vulnerable, in the views of counterterrorism experts, to the call for jihad. Since the early 1990s, the mosques of Mombasa and other towns have resonated with militant Islamic rhetoric. Radical imams have preached violence against Westerners, attacked the Kenyan government as the lackey of the United States and Israel and called for the implementation of Shariah. Members of the Qaeda cells that blew up the U.S. embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, Tanzaniaâ¦were recruited in mosques near the Indian Ocean beaches [in Kenya]â (âThe African Frontâ , ibid)
At no point has Senator Obama tried to distance himself from Odinga. Odinga visited Obama on a fundraising tour of the US in 2007 and it is believed that political strategist Dick Morris assisted in Odingaâs presidential campaign- gratis- at Obamaâs request (Morris only acknowledged the suggestion came through âmutual friendsâ). (âBridges Burned in US, Political Kingmaker Hits Africaâ ABC News 11/20/2007) Odinga has claimed that he and Obama speak regularly and whether this is true or notâ the similarities between their campaigns are startling. (âKenya Tests New Style of Politickingâ The Washington Post, 12/22/2007)
In fairness to Senator Obama, after Kenya erupted into violence ( and at the request of Condoleezza Rice), Obama did record a message â. â¦calling for calmâ¦â and had â..near daily conversations with the US Ambassadorâ¦and Raila Odingaâ (âThe Demons That Still Haunt Africaâ TIME magazine 1/10/2008). Perhaps not surprisingly, President Kibaki apparently declined to take his call. Kibakiâs not the only one no longer filled with enthusiasm for Senator Obamaâs brand of diplomacy. As Nicholas Kristof reported (with some surprise) in February: âYou might think that all Kenyans would be vigorously supporting Mr. Obama. But Kenya has been fractured along ethnic lines in the last two months, so now Mr. Obama draws frenzied support from the Luos ethnic group of his ancestors, while many members of the rival Kikuyu group fervently support Hillary Rodham Clinton. (âObamaâs Kenya Rootsâ New York Times 2/24/2008)
Curiously, it has been the Kenyan press (almost alone) who have realized the potential implications: â⦠this is what may be the most memorable effect of the ODMâs [Odingaâs party] post-election campaign for State House. The longer their protests last, and the less disciplined they are - or the more atrocities like Eldoret [church massacre] are conducted in the partyâs name- the more likely Kenya is to be stuck on the front pages of the worldâs media and the more embarrassment it will bring to the Senator.â (âThe Kiss of Death, How Kenya Could Spoil It For Obamaâ KenyaImagine 1/13/2008)
Clearly, Obama campaigned for someone who is corrupt, ruthless and has financial ties to terrorists. More importantly, Obama campaigned for a candidate who had the stated objective of dismantling US & Kenyan government efforts to root out Al Queda and other terrorist organizations. Organizations that had already caused the deaths of hundreds of Americans and Africans in embassy bombings. Senator Obamaâs actionsâintentional or notâwere in direct conflict with the efforts and interests of US national security. I think this raises serious questions about the judgment, maturity and readiness of Senator Obama.
Respectfully submitted,
Paula Abeles
spabeles@comcast.net Posted 10/10/2008 7:30 PMReply
"What we do know about Odinga is not good..." Who's "we?" Who wrote this article? Do you know enough about Kenya to read it with anything approaching scepticism or even neutrality? I don't think so, seeing as you've posted an outrageously flawed and dishonest article in its entirety, purportedly as proof of Obama's character. Posted 10/13/2008 05:18 AMReply
If BHO showed a real BC this matter would go away very quickly. I have Q's about BHO's authenticity primarily because he WON"T show us his true birth record. If he IS legit, why hide it???
SamFox Posted 05/21/2009 8:19 PMReply