Barack Obama and Raila Odinga -- Did the Illinois senator violate the Logan Act

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Barack Obama and Raila Odinga -- Did the Illinois senator violate the Logan Act in campaigning for his "ethnic cleansing" cousin's bid for the Kenyan presidency?

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From: PaulFVillarreal
Added: October 06, 2008

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The American electorate deserves answers on the relationship between Barack Obama and his supposed Kenyan cousin, Raila Odinga.

These links will provide you with a general overview of the deeply troubling actions of Barack Obama as he unsuccesfully set out to help get his purported cousin Raila Odinga -- a man the Kenyan government called a "genocidist" -- elected as the President of Kenya:

"Obama's Logan Act Violations: Kenya 06, World Tour 08"
http://texasdarlin.wordpress.com/2008...

"Barack Hussein Obama Needs to Be Charged with The Logan Act"
http://blog.barofintegrity.us/2008/09...

"Is he who he says he is?"
http://blog.hill4pres.com/2008/02/19/...

"Senator Barack Obama, A Kenyan Tribal Elder and Kenyan 'Community Organizer' [Street Agitator]"
http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/en...

"Odinga says Obama is his cousin"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/717...

"Obama's Cousin Wont Let Us Go After Terrorists"
http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/05/...

"The Kenya government accuses Raila Odinga of Genocide and Ethnic cleansing"
http://africanpress.wordpress.com/200...

"Great... Obama's Cousin Charged With Ethnic Cleansing"
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/200...

"Odinga denies 'ethnic cleansing'"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/719...

"Kenya's killing fields" -- Various posts on the Obama/Odinga/Muslim extremists connections by Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs blog. Highly recommended.
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/at...

"Raila Odinga defends the Eldoret Massacre"
http://kenyangenocide.blogspot.com/20...

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[darrels joy]

Obama Supporting Odingas Communist Sharia Ticket in Kenya


This is some really damning video , if you don't know what Obama is about , just watch this and you will know .
Obama even advised Odinga , it's easy to tell . watch the video carefully and you will notice some of the striking resemblances Of Obama's current logos and posters , to posters in Odinga's campaign. Change .

Odinga lost his bid for the presidency of Kenya , and this resulted in massive riots and a bloodbath ensued ,the violence of rampaging rioting muslims caused for the incumbent to break down and compromise in a power sharing deal with Odinga .

Are we to expect the same if Obama loses the election in November ?

Better get a Gun permit and start packin' , because if Obama loses , Americans may just need to defend their homes and lives against an outrageous onslaught of crazed leftist thugs.

http://pythios.blogspot.com/2008/10/...communist.html
video & shortcuts to more video

[SuperScout]

I sincerely pray for any crazed leftists thugs to attempt to step foot on my property. They will meet their Maker long before they expected to. And yes, I have a CHP, and pack.

Barack Hussein Obama, the bastard son of a Kenyan socialist and bigamist, violated the Logan Act, which specifically prohibits the type of actions and behavior he practiced when he went to Kenya.

[darrels joy]

HYMAN: Obama's Kenya ghosts
COMMENTARY:
About 50 parishioners were locked into the Assemblies of God church before it was set ablaze. They were mostly women and children. Those who tried to flee were hacked to death by machete-wielding members of a mob numbering 2,000.

The 2008 New Year Day atrocity in the Kenyan village Eldoret, about 185 miles northwest of Nairobi, had all the markings of the Rwanda genocide of a decade earlier.

By mid-February 2008, more than 1,500 Kenyans were killed. Many were slain by machete-armed attackers. More than 500,000 were displaced by the religious strife. Villages lay in ruin. Many of the atrocities were perpetrated by Muslims against Christians.

The violence was led by supporters of Raila Odinga, the opposition leader who lost the Dec. 27, 2007, presidential election by more than 230,000 votes. Odinga supporters began the genocide hours after the final election results were announced Dec. 30. Mr. Odinga was a member of Parliament representing an area in western Kenya, heavily populated by the Luo tribe, and the birthplace of Barack Obama's father.

Mr. Odinga had the backing of Kenya's Muslim community heading into the election. For months he denied any ties to Muslim leaders, but fell silent when Sheik Abdullahi Abdi, chairman of the National Muslim Leaders Forum, appeared on Kenya television displaying a memorandum of understanding signed on Aug. 29, 2007, by Mr. Odinga and the Muslim leader. Mr. Odinga then denied his denials.

The details of the MOU were shocking. In return for Muslim backing, Mr. Odinga promised to impose a number of measures favored by Muslims if he were elected president. Among these were recognition of "Islam as the only true religion," Islamic leaders would have an "oversight role to monitor activities of ALL other religions [emphasis in original]," installation of Shariah courts in every jurisdiction, a ban on Christian preaching, replacement of the police commissioner who "allowed himself to be used by heathens and Zionists," adoption of a women's dress code, and bans on alcohol and pork.

This was not Mr. Odinga's first brush with notoriety. Like his father, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, the main opposition leader in the 1960s and 1970s, Raila Odinga is a Marxist He graduated from East Germany's Magdeburg University in 1970 on a scholarship provided by the East German government. He named his oldest son after Fidel Castro.

Raila Odinga was implicated in the bloody coup attempt in 1982 against then-President Daniel Arap Moi, a close ally of the United States. Kenya has been one of the most stable democracies in Africa since the 1960s. The ethnic cleansing earlier this year was the worst violence in Kenya since that 1982 coup attempt.

Mr. Odinga spent eight years in prison. At the time, he denied guilt but later detailed he was a coup leader in his 2006 biography. Statue of limitations precluded further prosecution when the biography appeared.

Initially, Mr. Odinga was not the favored opposition candidate to stand in the 2007 election against President Mwai Kibaki, who was seeking his second term. However, he received a tremendous boost when Sen. Barack Obama arrived in Kenya in August 2006 to campaign on his behalf. Mr. Obama denies that supporting Mr. Odinga was the intention of his trip, but his actions and local media reports tell otherwise.

Mr. Odinga and Mr. Obama were nearly inseparable throughout Mr. Obama's six-day stay. The two traveled together throughout Kenya and Mr. Obama spoke on behalf of Mr. Odinga at numerous rallies. In contrast, Mr. Obama had only criticism for Kibaki. He lashed out against the Kenyan government shortly after meeting with the president on Aug. 25. "The [Kenyan] people have to suffer over corruption perpetrated by government officials," Mr. Obama announced.

"Kenyans are now yearning for change," he declared. The intent of Mr. Obama's remarks and actions was transparent to Kenyans - he was firmly behind Mr. Odinga.

Mr. Odinga and Mr. Obama had met several times before the 2006 trip. Reports indicate Mr. Odinga visited Mr. Obama during trips to the U.S. in 2004, 2005 and 2006. Mr. Obama sent his foreign policy adviser Mark Lippert to Kenya in early 2006 to coordinate his summer visit. Mr. Obama's August trip coincided with strategizing by Orange Democratic Movement leaders to defeat Mr. Kibaki in the upcoming elections. Mr. Odinga represented the ODM ticket in the presidential race.

Mr. Odinga and Mr. Obama's father were both from the Luo community, the second-largest tribe in Kenya, but their ties run much deeper. Mr. Odinga told a stunned BBC Radio interviewer the reason why he and Mr. Obama were staying in near daily telephone contact was because they were cousins. In a Jan. 8, 2008, interview, Mr. Odinga said Mr. Obama had called him twice the day before while campaigning in the New Hampshire primary before adding, "Barack Obama's father is my maternal uncle."

President Kibaki requested a meeting of all opposition leaders in early January in an effort to quell the violence. All agreed to attend except Mr. Odinga. A month later, Mr. Kibaki offered Mr. Odinga the role of prime minister, the de facto No. 2 in the Kenyan government, in return for an end to the attacks. Mr. Odinga was sworn in on April 17, 2008.

Mr. Obama's judgment is seriously called into question when he backs an official with troubling ties to Muslim extremists and whose supporters practice ethnic cleansing and genocide. It was Islamic extremists in Kenya who bombed the U.S. Embassy in 1998, killing more than 200 and injuring thousands. None of this has dissuaded Mr. Obama from maintaining disturbing loyalties.

Mark Hyman is an award-winning news commentator for Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc.
http://www.washtimes.com/news/2008/o...-kenya-ghosts/



ASSOCIATED PRESS Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga is calling President Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe an "embarrassment" to Africa and would support the forced removal of the ruler.

[SEATJERKER]

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...We have nothing to fear by letting the lambs elect an associate of this man to "lead" this Nation,...

...WE HAVE EVERYTHING TO FEAR BY LETTING THE LAMBS ELECT AN ASSOCIATE OF THIS MAN TO "LEAD" THIS NATION,...

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[darrels joy]

On Thursday I posted an article titled, "Comprehensive Review of the Most Current, Hard-Hitting Arguments Against Obama." One of the arguments this article discussed, regarded the Marxist, Raila Odinga, leader of the socialist "Orange Democratic Movement" of Kenya. Odinga is the self-admitted leader of a bloody coup. After his loss in the Presidential election in Kenya in 2007, his followers committed mass murder. My article cited two sources - the Washington Times, and a video available on Canada Free Press - to the effect that Obama had campaigned on behalf of Odinga in 2006. I asked:

American Liberals: given that Obama campaigned on behalf of Odinga - a Marxist, a murderer as the leader of the bloody coup attempt, and a leader of genocide - is it possible that Obama has the same values that you have; has the same goals for America that you have; is it possible that you can vote for such a man?

POLITICO: "NO REAL EVIDENCE" FOR OBAMA-ODINGA REPORTS

It so happened that later that day, Politico posted an article titled, "Cover this! Inside the nastiest '08 rumors." One of the 'rumors' they addressed was Odinga:

A third popular Obama "tip" has to do with Raila Odinga, the Kenyan prime minister and former opposition leader who claimed that Obama was a distant cousin.

The reports surfaced after a political crisis in Kenya in which many international observers believed the vote was stolen from Odinga. As the international community rallied behind the opposition, Obama spoke to Odinga briefly on the telephone.

The media has ignored stories about the relationship between the two men because there's no real evidence that one exists. But the story, which comes in many varieties, suggests that Obama campaigned for Odinga and funneled money to his campaign and that they're close allies.

Was it possible the Washington Times article had it all wrong?

MANY REPORTS CONFIRM THAT OBAMA GAVE SUPPORT TO ODINGA

I spoke to Mark Hyman, author of the Washington Times article, by phone. Hyman stated that Politico must not have done a Lexis/Nexis search to confirm or deny the statements made in Hyman's article, as had they done so, they would have seen reports to confirm the statements made by Hyman in that article.

I do not have a Lexis/Nexis account, so I did a Google news search.

From the Chicago Sun-Times, 8/29/2006:

Obama appeared with opposition leader Raila Odinga -- a Luo running for president -- at stops on Saturday in his father's native district.

From Newsweek: 9/11/2006:

In South Africa, [Obama] scoffed at Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang's home remedies for AIDS. He blasted Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe, whose schemes have made a violent mess of his country. And he hit the government in Khartoum for the genocide in Sudan. But his most unrelenting critique was of Kenya. He took the government to task for violating freedom of the press, lectured its citizens on the folly of tribalism and slammed government corruption in a nationally televised speech: "While corruption is a problem we all share, here in Kenya it is a crisis."

Prominent visitors have criticized Kenyan corruption before. But hearing the message from Obama was different. For he was seen not only as a fellow Kenyan standing up to power, but also as a Luo standing up to a Kikuyo--the dominant ethnic group to which President Mwai Kibaki belongs and against which Luo resentment runs deep. And worse, in the government's eyes, at least, he was seen as siding with the opposition--in particular with Raila Odinga, a powerful kingmaker and Luo whose Orange Democratic Movement has been a painful thorn in Kibaki's side. "It is very clear that the senator has been used as a puppet to perpetuate opposition politics," sniffed Kibaki spokesperson Alfred Mutua.

From Investors Business Daily, editorial, 7/18/2008:

Like Obama's father, Odinga was a member of the Luo tribe of Kenya. His son, Raila Odinga, ran for president in 2006. That year, Obama traveled to Kenya and appeared with Odinga at rallies where he criticized the pro-U.S. government Odinga wanted to oust.

When he lost the election the next year, despite Obama's tacit endorsement, angry Odinga supporters crying fraud sparked riots that resulted in some 1,500 deaths. Amid his ancestral country's civil unrest, Obama took time out from the campaign trail to phone Odinga to voice his support.

From The Economist, 9/2/2006 (no link):

Predictably, Kenyan politicians jostled to bathe in Mr Obama's light. The senator did his best to divide time between government and opposition. The embattled president, Mwai Kibaki, had looked forward to being seen at last with a squeaky-clean politician. He was said to be mortified when Mr Obama informed him that Chicago television crews accompanying him had been "shaken down" for hefty bribes at Nairobi airport. And Mr Obama was made into something of a mascot by Raila Odinga, a populist who hopes to succeed Mr Kibaki in next year's elections.

Photos are available from Obama's trip to Kenya, showing Obama lending Odinga the support of his presence:

As confirmed by these multiple sources, Obama did lend the support of his personal presence to campaign appearances made by Odinga.

IS IT REASONABLE TO SAY THAT OBAMA "CAMPAIGNED FOR" ODINGA?

But as quoted above, The Economist states that Obama "did his best to divide time between government and opposition." Could it be that Obama even-handedly gave both sides his support? If that is the case, it would be inaccurate to say Obama "campaigned for" Odinga.

To examine this question, I used the site AllAfrica.com, which permits search and retrieval of articles from a number of local African publications. A subscription is required; I have saved pdf copies of the articles referenced here. These records show that Obama attacked President Kibaki, while working to boost Odinga. On his first full day in Kenya, Obama met with President Kibaki, and slammed Kibaki publicly:

The Nation, Aug. 26, 2006, reporting on events of Aug. 25th, 2006

US senator Barack Obama leaves the Nairobi State House escorted by President Kibaki and Health minister Charity Ngilu after the visiting senator held a meeting with the President yesterday morning.

What Kenya needs, he said, is a transparent government that encourages development and deals with what he described as "ordinary corruption".

"I'm talking about the customs officers having to ask for bribes or the policeman who flags you down or the officer who licenses a business. The mindset has to change so that the creativity and potential of the Kenyan people can pay off," Mr Obama, who also spoke of his joy on returning to Kenya, said.

He added: "I told President Kibaki when he spoke to me about encouraging foreign investors, that corruption was a major impediment."

The East African Standard, Aug. 26, 2006, reporting on events of Aug. 25, 2006

Visiting American Senator Barack Obama believes Kenya does not yet have a transparent government that encourages development and war against corruption.

Speaking to journalists after talks with President Kibaki at State House, the man whose visit has caused a sensation in Nyanza where his father was born and buried, revealed he told the President as much.

"Kenya does not have a transparent government that encourages the fight against corruption. At every level the people have to suffer over corruption perpetuated by government officials."

Obama continued his attacks on the Kibaki government on August 28th. The Nation Aug. 29, 2006, reporting on events of Aug. 28, 2006:

And in a direct challenge to the Kibaki Administration, Mr Obama went on: "We're starting to see the Kenyan people want more than a simple change of the guard, more than piecemeal reforms to a crisis that's crippling their country.

"They are crying out for real change, and whether one voted Orange or Banana in last year's referendum, the message that many Kenyans seemed to be sending was one of dissatisfaction with the pace of reform, and real frustration with continued tolerance of high-level corruption."

In a ringing declaration the senator from Chicago - tipped by many to become the United States' first black president - said: "We have the opportunity to muster the courage to fulfil the promise of our forefathers and lead our great nations towards a better future.

"In today's Kenya - a Kenya more open and less repressive than in my father's day - it is courage that will bring the reform so many of you so desperately want and deserve.

"I wish all of you luck in finding this courage in the days and months to come, and I want you to know that as your ally, your friend and your brother, I will be there to help in any way I can."

In his speech at the Taifa Hall, Mr Obama celebrated the freedom won from British in the 1960s and went on: "The reason I speak of the freedom that you fought so hard to win is because today that freedom is in jeopardy. It is being threatened by corruption.

"But while corruption is a problem we all share, here in Kenya it is a crisis - a crisis that's robbing an honest people of the opportunities they have fought for; the opportunity they deserve. Instead of unifying the country to move forward on solving problems, it divides neighbour from neighbour.

"It is painfully obvious that corruption stifles development it siphons off scarce resources that could improve infrastructure, bolster education systems, and strengthen public health," he added.

Having given the support of his presence to Odinga, and having slammed Kibaki, it appears reasonable to say that Obama "campaigned for" Odinga.

ADDITIONAL EVIDENCE OF A POLITICAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN OBAMA AND ODINGA

Politico stated that "there's no real evidence" of a relationship between Obama and Odinga. The assistance Obama gave Odinga, would appear to be a political relationship. Is there any additional evidence of a political relationship between Obama and Odinga?

The Nation, Aug. 16, 2006:

...it is known that Liberal Democratic Party's presidential hopefuls Raila Odinga and Kalonzo Musyoka, and their Kanu colleague in the Orange Democratic Movement, Mr William Ruto, have made trips abroad focusing on the United States in the past few weeks.

...Mr Odinga, who met with Kenyans in the US, also held talks with Senator Barack Obama, who has a Kenyan ancestry. The Lang'ata MP also travelled to Australia recently, where he addressed various groups.

The Nation, Sep. 4, 2006

It was Mr Odinga who persuaded Mr Obama to visit Kenya, and everybody saw how the Senator electrified crowds and unified the country. Forget about misguided people in government who think he should have come here and kept quiet. Never has Kenya been the focus of so much international public attention as in the period when Senator Obama and his family visited the country.

The Nation, Aug. 25, 2006, reporting on events of Aug. 24, 2006:

United States Senator Barack Obama arrived in the country last evening for a six-day visit.

It must have been one of the surreal images in Kenya preceding the visit of Senator Barack Obama - Key opposition leader Raila Odinga returning from a visit to the US, and on arrival at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport proudly displaying a photograph of him posing with the Senator.

If it had been any other US Senator, Mr Odinga probably would not have made much of having been granted an audience and a photo-op. But then because of Mr Obama's Kenyan roots, his name has resonated deeply within Kenya once he became the only serving African-American member of the US Senate.

And it strikes a particularly deep cord in Mr Odinga's political constituency, where Barack Obama's father was from.

And from Time Magazine, January 7, 2008:

In the days since his Iowa victory, Obama has had near-daily conversations with the U.S. Ambassador in Kenya or with opposition leader Raila Odinga. As of late this afternoon, before his rally in Rochester, N.H., Obama was trying to reach Kenyan President Kibaki.

Bear in mind that these "near-daily conversations" came after the mass murders conducted by Odinga's followers.

CONCLUSION
Obama's support for and relationship with Odinga is a well-documented fact. I repeat my conclusion from my original article:

American Liberals: given that Obama campaigned on behalf of Odinga - a Marxist, a murderer as the leader of the bloody coup attempt, and a leader of genocide - is it possible that Obama has the same values that you have; has the same goals for America that you have; is it possible that you can vote for such a man?

POSTSCRIPT
Politico reporters Jim VandeHei and John F. Harris recently admitted that they were biased in favor of Obama, and said, "So what?" The answer to "so what" in this case, appears to be that the bias of Politico led it to inaccurately claim that a well-documented story, damaging to their preferred candidate, was an unfounded rumor.

http://www.bigpicweblog.com/exp/inde...tiple_reports/