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| I'm Barack Obama's cousin says Raila Odinga |
| 2008-02-21 |
| Kenya's defeated presidential challenger Raila Odinga has claimed to be a cousin of Barack Obama and said that they had discussed his country's post-election violence. Mr Odinga, 63, said that the US senator's father, from western Kenya's Luo tribe, was his maternal uncle. Mr Odinga says that Senator Obama's late father was his uncle on his mother's side. "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. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #5 Wonder if that 'losing elections thingy' is hereditary???? |
| Posted by: Winnin B. Hard 2008-02-21 14:51 |
| #4 #2. ...and Mrs Odinga said, "For the first time in my adult life, I am really proud of my country." |
| Posted by: GK 2008-02-21 13:08 |
| #3 soooo, he is related to Cheney? |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2008-02-21 12:18 |
| #2 If Barack Obama were in Kenya today, he would "work with the leadership to bring them to a round table and find a solution to the problems that have been ravaging the country" They would hear his drivel, both sides becoming equally enraged, attack him from both sides and hack him to bits. They would then agree that the best course is to resume fighting to the death. |
| Posted by: Woozle Elmeter 2907 2008-02-21 10:29 |
| #1 Geez, Raila. Not to say I'm unimpressed, but this isn't exactly, "I'm Spartacus!"... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-02-21 09:48 |