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.
Thanks for gathering and publishing this information.
I just have to ask one question of EVERYONE on this post: Are you scrutinizing McCain and Palin to the degree that you are scrutinizing Obama? I certain don’t think that Obama is perfect, no Presidential candidate is. I think that you will find equally scary things in McCain and Palin’s past as well.
John M,
There are scary things in McCain’s past, but the difference is the scary things happened to McCain not that he did the scary things.
John –
Actually, yes we have examined John McCain’s past very thoroughly. There’s something for almost everyone. But none of the negatives in McCain’s past — which extends nearly 30 years longer than Obama’s — compares even remotely to the baggage carried by Obama. He has chosen to run with some of the world’s worst creeps. And many of those that he has not personally been with have endorsed his for President.
yes the scary thing is that in the short amount of time Obama has been in politics and given his age, he has managed to rack up an impressive list of horrible decisions about his associates. I don’t think it’s an accident unless you assume that Senator Obama is an utter moron which of course he is not. He simply has a more socialist agenda which might not sound “that” bad until you consider that it’s of the Ayers faction of belief which IS marxist.
Even the way he has trained ACORN comes right out of the marxist agenda, the way he has run his campaign. Long ago there was an interview with an ex KGB agent who stated that part of the agenda to get control is to have “useful idiots” made up of youth with “beautiful ideas” who are given and echo chamber of information such that even when and especially IF a bombardment of facts come at them they fall on deaf ears.
They wanted facts to be to no avail. Once in power these so called “useful idiots” and at the time he named student groups as an example and “Jane Fonda” would be the first to be supressed because they would realize they had been used and duped and rebellion or dissent would not be tolerated. Would need to be silenced. Then he sited other countries where this had already been done.
It’s formulaic, get a vulnerable group to believe in a certain ideal…fervently so that they are indoctrinated to the point that no fact can sway them. Then once in power dismiss or get rid of this group FIRST in case they should rebel against the restrictions they will face since you never intended to hold to those “ideals” to begin with.
Read Ayers, Read Marx, see how Obama trained ACORN in the bullying tactics we saw in the caucuses…then read what the Annenberg Challenge was predicated on and was supposed to accomplish.
These things are rather scary “accidents” if that’s what they are. God help us if they are not.
As someone born in Ecuador with friends and relatives in Latin America, I’m terrified watching how people in the United States are being duped just like people in Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador to put a Marxist in power.
The similarities between Odinga’s and Obama’s campaign strategies and Rafael Correa’s campaign strategies for president of Ecuador are amazing. Even the slogans (CHANGE, YES WE CAN, etc.) are the same.
Correa’s campaign of lies, manipulation and fraud seems to have been part of a plan laid out by Castro at the Marxist Sao Paulo’s forum in the 90’s to spread Marxism. Correa is now a dictator working with Chávez y Islamics. It seems Odinga’s and Obama’s campaigns also part of that plan.
Obama is a Marxist (his Black Liberation Theology is Marxist) who supports Marxist-Islamic monsters like Odinga. There is PROOF that Obama used his elected office—and taxpayers’ dollars—to support Kenya’s Raila Odinga, self touted as “Your Agent for Change,” a violent and dangerous man who made a pact with the Muslims to institute sharia (Islamic law). Odinga’s followers killed 750 people and burned a Christian church with 50 people, many of them children, inside. The mainstream media hiding these facts is CRIMINAL.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c30_1223478281
They are not accidents, Alice Paul. The strategies for a Marxists takeover are the same.
Obama loves to selectively give information about his life. He doesn’t want anyone to know that he is actually an Arab American by U.S. law. Political expediency is the name of the game for Obama and the democratic party. Any lie they can make is a good lie as long as it advances their left wing extreme socialist agenda.
He doesn’t want anyone to know that he is actually an Arab American by U.S. law.
“By law” he’s either an African-American or a white American; Arab ethnicities are classed under “white” for Census purposes.
GET HIM THE HELL OUTTA OUR GOVERNMENT! Any Jew who votes for him needs their head examined!
John M. wrote: “I just have to ask one question of EVERYONE on this post: Are you scrutinizing McCain and Palin to the degree that you are scrutinizing Obama?”
In the cases of McCain and Palin, the media is taking the time to dig up and expose anything and everything they can find (and even some things they can’t find). In the case of Obama, the media is looking the other way, even when parts of his past and present are screaming for attention from the media.
R wrote: “By law” he’s either an African-American or a white American; Arab ethnicities are classed under “white” for Census purposes.
I believe that Obamathing was not referring to Obama’s ethnic background, but to his citizenship, his place of birth.
If Obama was indeed born in the U.S., then why is he not willingly sharing his birth certificate? If he wasn’t born in the U.S., then why isn’t Arnold running against him?
What disturbs me is this: Obama claims during his 2 yrs political campaigning that his father arrived in the US courtesy of a “Kennedy Family Airlift” – the claim is proved false. Tom Mboya, a Kenyan hero, who in opposition to the slaughter of the Mau-Mau’s approached Kenyan Independance from a non-violent persepctive, arranged for the funding for both Obama’s Sr transport and education. After completing his education Obama Sr. returned home to betrayed Mboya, a fellow Luo Tribesman. Documentary proof can be found in Obama’s critism of Mboya and Mboya’s Planning in an East Africa Journal (1965) less than one year after his return to Kenya. Obama, like his brother in law, Oginga Odinga, was a Soviet Marxist and KPU (Kenyan Peoples Union) member. Obinga was arrested, but not charged in Mboya’s killing, by President Kenyatta. While there are those who suggest that Kenyatta was behind the killing – Communist publicatons justify the killing of Mboya by refering to a mythical Mboya – CIA link . Instead of reporting the sanitized political spin Obama’s machine produces – the Press should explore the role his family may have played in the killing of Kenya’s version of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
See: http://mcauleysworld.wordpress.com/2008/10/28/barack-obama-the-unauthorized-biography-obamas-factual-family-story/
John — whether anyone here has examined McCain -Palin to the degree we are examining Obama is not the question. That has been done.
McCain and Palin have been gone over by the Obama-owned mainstream media, down a gnat’s eyelash.
Obama has been given a cart blanche by that very same media. This IS the equal examination of the candidates, which is sadly lacking without the conservative blogs, Sean Hannity, Limbaugh and friends. We, and they, comprise the REAL “fairness doctrine.”
Obama is not merely “imperfect.” He has the longest list of creepy friends and endorsers of any candidate in American history, the greatest arrogance, and the longest list of dumb choices. People are rightly scared out of their wits by him. More and more people are examining him like we are, instead of being charmed by the voice and the phony mystique. We hope and pray enough do so in time to prevent the disaster of his election.
I’d take Arnold any day over this turkey. And I don’t like Arnold.
Antonio is right on. The methods of Marxists are the same the world ’round. They have not changed since the days of Stalin. Obama matches up. ACORN with its bully tactics is no different than communist goon squads in Romania. And wherever else this has happened.
Anyone who has read at all widely on the subject of Marxism knows that Obama and his brownshirts fit the pattern. Intimidation, vote fraud, payoffs, it has been done over and over again.
If things don’t change dramatically immediately after the election, don’t fall asleep. That is where they want you, asleep.
It builds.
Saul Alinsky was training so-called community organizers in the 70s. He published Rules for Radicals, the community organizers’ bible, in 1971. The ACORN movement has been at work for at least twenty years.
Now one of their own, their anointed, is poised to move into the White House. Antonio would probably agree that now they will pick up the pace.
I believe that Obamathing was not referring to Obama’s ethnic background, but to his citizenship, his place of birth.
If he was really born in Mombasa, the son of a black African father, why would he be classed as “Arab-American”? Any way you slice it, the “Arab-American” comment doesn’t make one iota of logical sense.
The government of Kenya officially classified Obama’s father ’s ethnicticity as Arab. Obama is Arab-American. His father, grandfather and great grandfather were Arab, hence they use the name Hussain to show the Arab background and distinguish themselves from black African. This is an Arab naming custom. Look it up. (Arab naming patterns) The claim of Black African can only come from his great grandmother who was a black African. His father also was a citizen of the Great Britain at the time of Obama’s birth because Kenya did not receive it’s independence until 1963 and he was born in 1961. History doesn’t lie. He was also adopted by Lolo Soetoro-Ng, an Indonesian citizen, his step-father, while living in Indonesia in order for him to go to school there, as a requirement of Indonesia. Schoolmates claimed he was in school with them until the 9th grade, in Jakarta and was returned to Hawaii in order to go to highschool, while living with his grandparents. The information is out there if you do some research. Odinga said he is his cousin through his maternal side, which I believe would be Barack Hussein Obama Sr.’s sister. I’m sure research would prove or disprove it. Why should it be a secret to American’s? Either he is or he isn’t. Most research indicates he is.