The Odinga-Obama Cousin Thing
Some readers have expressed skepticism about Raila Odinga’s claim that Barack Obama’s father was Odinga’s “maternal uncle”. To the skeptics, I offer the excerpt below from a January 11, 2008 Telegraph UK story, in which the Obama campaign confirms that Obama called Odinga on the phone on January 7 — just as Odinga claimed in his BBC radio interview — and fails to deny the cousin relationship.
In the context of Odinga’s very public claim (you can listen to his BBC radio interview, yourself), Obama’s failure to deny should either be taken as (a) ratification of Odinga’s claim, (b) temporary lack of knowledge, or (c) reluctance to offend Odinga or someone important to Odinga with a denial.
Also consider that a September 27, 2007 New York Times story quotes the Obama campaign as denying an alleged distant cousin relationship with another Kenyan candidate, Nicholas Owino Rajula. Seems that everyone in Kenyan wants a piece of Obama. That denial stands in stark contrast to the silence in response to Odinga’s claim. Here’s the Telegraph excerpt:
Mr Odinga, 63, said that the US senator’s father, from western Kenya’s Luo tribe, was his maternal uncle.
“He has called me to talk about the destabilising constitutional crisis in this country, despite being in the middle of the very busy New Hampshire primary,” Mr Odinga said yesterday.
Mr Obama’s spokesman Robert Gibbs confirmed that the senator spoke to the Kenyan opposition leader on Monday afternoon for about five minutes before going into a rally in New Hampshire, according to Associated Press.
The Democrat would-be presidential candidate is also understood to have tried to speak to President Mwai Kibaki, whose victory in December 27 elections has been widely questioned.
Mr Obama has not commented on the Kenyan opposition leader’s claim to be a relative.
Full text at the Telegraph. Against this backdrop, let’s just assume for a moment that Obama is not Odinga’s cousin. How do you cousin skeptics explain or justify Barack Obama — then a sitting U.S. Senator — campaigning in Kenya for Raila Odinga who is in bed with Kenya’s Islamic jihad? Why was Obama in Kenya, in 2006, strutting around with Odinga when there were so many important issues on the table here in the United States? For that matter, is it even ethically appropriate for a U.S. Senator to campaign for any candidate in any foreign country? Isn’t there a Senate rule against such interference by sitting Senators in foreign politics?
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Add to the Odinga cousin thing the Abongo “Roy” Obama thing — Obama’s militant Islamic older brother in Kenya. We all know, or should know, what militant Luo tribesmen have been doing in recent weeks to Christian Kikuyus. It is not pretty. Obama’s minister preaches black nationalism. “We are an African people,” the Rev. Jeremiah Wright reminds his flock, “and remain true to our native land, the mother continent.”And Obama has listened to that, apparently without exception or he would have moved on, for 20 + years. How Afrocentric will an Obama administration be? How socialist? The answer is “very.”
Farrakhan, this past Sunday, endorsed Obama. Why, after Obama disavowed any connection with him?
And how long is the William C. Ayers connection going to stay buried? The people from whose living room Obama launched his Illinois State Senate campaign are both unrepentant 1970s-era domestic terrorists, responsible with their associates for over twenty bombings. Obama has also served on a board of a non-profit with Ayers; this is not just a casual, pass-in-the-dark connection.
Maybe we need to be asking Fox and various Friends why those questions are not being raised. Are they just holding off for the general election?
Follow the money…see the ties—research–>>
Obama–>Rezko–>Nadhmi Auchi–>Saddam Hussein & Muammar al-Gaddafi–>(Pastor Wright, Louis Farrakhan, and Raila Odinga–>Sheik Abdullahi Abdi)–>Raila Odinga–>Obama–>Bill Ayers & Bernadine Dorhn–>Obama–>Rashid Khalidi–>Obama–>Rezko–>Jabir Herbert Muhammad–>Farrakhan–>Obama–>
Follow the money…see the ties—>research–>>
Please google barack obama associates.
Enough said.
What a load of lies. A sad and mad attempt to smear Obama. Are wingnuts really this desperate?
Tom —
Your message is unfortunately typical of Obama supporters. Please identify, precisely, any “lie” in the above post. Are you saying that Odinga is not Obama’s cousin? Or that Obama did not campaign for Odinga? Are you saying that Obama has not made a habit of associating himself and his brand with Marxists? Or that he did not depend on the New Party to get elected to the Illinois Senate for the first time? What “lies”? Put some thought into it, Tom, and get back with us.
K
Well, it’s interesting reading these comments NOW. The new book “The Obama Nation” came out on August 1st and it addresses everything we posted in this thread.
This is Jerome Corsi’s book, reviewed by Hannity on his show this weekend. I’ve already ordered a copy. It sounds like must reading for every voter.
To Tom and other Obama supporters: Claiming lies is not the same as refuting them. Contrary to MediaMatters, and Tom’s claims above, this is all thoroughly documented information.
Putting it bluntly, we have never had a candidate who represents more risk to the Constitution and the future of our nation.
It appears “Fox and various friends” have risen to the occasion. Since Hannity did review it, and interviewed Corsi in the process. Long overdue coverage of this scary stuff, but still welcome. Tom Sullivan, a (moderate) national talk show host with Fox, also hit Obama’s socialist agenda heavily this last week. Spent an hour on it.
Hopefully, Corsi’s book — and there is another on Obama that just came out that sounds like it’s worth the trouble — will get wide circulation.
Here is the title of the other book just out on Barack Hussein Obama, per “investigative journalist and National Review Online political reporter David Freddoso has written the book every voter needs to read: The Case Against Barack Obama: The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media’s Favorite Candidate.”
Obama is a case in himself. Let’s not make him ours. I still don’t love McCain, but he is at least a loyal American.
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