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Raila dragged into attack on Obama
Prime Minister Raila Odinga and Senator Barack Obama.
Posted Friday, August 15 2008 at 22:28
The elder Obama’s death in a Nairobi car accident was caused by his drunkenness, Mr Corsi writes.
Much is made of the Muslim heritage of the senator’s father. Mr Corsi writes that “the Obama family in Africa is a Muslim family of the predominantly Christian Luo tribe in the predominantly Christian country of Kenya.”
By repeatedly drawing connections between Senator Obama and Islam, Mr Corsi is playing upon anti-Muslim sentiments in the US that remain widespread and acute in the aftermath of the 2001 terror attacks on New York and Washington.
Senator Obama is in fact a practising Christian, but Mr Corsi implies that this religious affiliation may be a façade.
The Obama Nation delves into Kenya’s history, mainly through an account of the tribal and political roles played by Jomo Kenyatta, Tom Mboya and Oginga Odinga.
Despite the publisher’s claim that Mr Corsi carried out “meticulous research,” he gets some facts wrong in his analysis of Kenyan politics.
He says, for example, that the Orange Democratic Movement took its name from the “Orange Revolution” in Ukraine rather than from the fruit used as the ballot symbol for opposition to the constitutional proposals rejected in a 2005 referendum.
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Submitted by doctezPosted September 04, 2008 07:15 AM
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Submitted by billc
Mr Corsi must be brilliantly observant: anybody who fails to strongly refute claims of an association with Raila should not dream about being President of the US.Those images of the bafoon loughing at dead bodies in a Nairobi morgue following his last years disastrous greed for power will explain my sentiments. The thin Senator had all the time to distance himself from such madness as he did the church. With the revelation of Obama Nation, now its too late. Forget it Obama.
Posted August 20, 2008 02:11 AM -
Submitted by alwaqt
The book is only #1 in New York City, not the US. With enough dollars, it is trivial to manipulate this bestseller list.
Posted August 19, 2008 07:54 PM -
Submitted by bayaaus
That is just what we say in swahili,' dua la kuku halimpati mwewe'. Let them write and say all that rubbish but Obama is on the right track.
Posted August 19, 2008 11:42 AM -
Submitted by zait
Whats all this about? Why defend Obama while Americans are reading the Obama Nation making millions for Corsi?Obama is running for presidency in america and thats how they do their politics!Lets focus on Kenya.
Posted August 18, 2008 09:40 PM
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Yes we can. Obama is outspoken,just like Agwambo our Kenyan hero.He is too brilliant tey try to be like him but they cant.So they hate,prejugde and character assasinate. Ni wale wale tu.Wolves in sheepskins.Obama is getting to White house this winter by the grace of God.