After a stolen election, ethnic cleansing and even the threat of civil warTHE decision to return Kenya's 76-year-old incumbent president, Mwai Kibaki, to office was not made by the Kenyan people but by a small group of hardline leaders from Mr Kibaki's Kikuyu tribe. They made up their minds before the result was announced, perhaps even before the opposition candidate, Raila Odinga, had opened up a lead in early returns from the December 27th election. It was a civil coup.
The planning was meticulous. All that was needed were the extra votes to squeak past Mr Odinga in what had been among the most closely contested elections Africa had ever seen. That was why returns from Central Province, Mr Kibaki's fiercely loyal Kikuyu heartland, were inexplicably held back. It was why, in some constituencies, a large number of voters seemed mysteriously to vote only in the presidential race and ignore the parliamentary ballot—despite waiting hours in the blazing sun. But the real damage was done in Nairobi, by simply crossing out the number of votes as announced in the constituency and scribbling in a higher number. Election monitors were turned away while the tallying went on. Monitors from the European Union saw tens of thousands of votes pinched in this way.
The planning was meticulous. All that was needed were the extra votes to squeak past Mr Odinga in what had been among the most closely contested elections Africa had ever seen. That was why returns from Central Province, Mr Kibaki's fiercely loyal Kikuyu heartland, were inexplicably held back. It was why, in some constituencies, a large number of voters seemed mysteriously to vote only in the presidential race and ignore the parliamentary ballot—despite waiting hours in the blazing sun. But the real damage was done in Nairobi, by simply crossing out the number of votes as announced in the constituency and scribbling in a higher number. Election monitors were turned away while the tallying went on. Monitors from the European Union saw tens of thousands of votes pinched in this way.
The reason I bring you news from Kenya, a country in a terrible state, is the complete silence heard from one Barack Hussein Obama, a candidate whose own father resides there!!! Although completely unable to corroborate this fact, an African immigrant who works for me (and a person you would be very proud to call your friend) tells me unabashedly that
Raila Odinga is actually a distant cousin of Obama!!!
Yes, the same Odinga who ran against,
and lost the election in Kenya "Floridian style."
YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST
And yet, Obama says nothing.
Is he representing, or turning white?
Mass chaos in Africa, complete bigotry in a dismal effort by FEMA to help the overwhelmingly black population effected by Hurrican Katrina, Jena 6, inner city schools eroding, mass poverty in black neighborhoods, and on and on...
yet this black leader doesn't say squat.
Troubling (OR AT LEAST CURIOUS) to say the least...
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