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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (68328)	7/11/2009 8:35:49 PM
From: mph	3 Recommendations Respond to of 224748

How is Congress going to act as a check on all the Czars your guy Obama appointed?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (68328)	7/11/2009 8:51:53 PM
From: lorne	2 Recommendations Respond to of 224748

ken...Maybe hussein obama will be called as a witness..after all he was involved. Skipping over Kenya Does itinerary continue cover-up of president's political links? July 11, 2009 © 2009 WorldNetDaily wnd.com Why did President Obama avoid Kenya, the homeland of his father, on his first trip to Africa since becoming president? The answer largely rests in Obama's desire to stay as far away as possible from Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga, a fellow Luo tribesman that Sen. Obama worked hard to get elected president in Kenya's December 2007 presidential election. The White House remains engaged in full campaign-like cover-up mode, working desperately to keep the American public from knowing how close Obama's ties to radical socialist Raila Odinga truly are. International Criminal Court in Hague moves on Kenya Last week, Kenyan officials worked overtime, rushing to establish a criminal tribunal to investigate Odinga's guilt in allegedly causing his Luo tribe supporters to rise up in protest and kill some 1,300 members of the dominant Kikuyu tribe after Kikuyu President Mwai Kibaki beat Odinga in the December 2007 presidential contest. The reason the Kenyan government reportedly was in a panic was that former-U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan turned over to the International Criminal Court a sealed envelope and supporting materials entrusted to him last October by the Waki Commission, which was established in Kenya to investigate the post-election tribal violence. The sealed envelope contained the names of the individuals, including Odinga and most likely President Kibaki, the Waki Commission believed faced criminal culpability for their failure to prevent or help stop the post-election tribal violence that propelled Odinga into power. Odinga used tribal violence to gain power In the course of the tribal warfare, outraged Luo members massacred Kikuyu Christians who sought refuge in a Kenyan church in Eldoret, a small village about 185 miles northwest of Nairobi. The Luo displaced hundreds of thousands of Kikuyu throughout the country who fled in fear of their lives. As WND reported, the tribal violence in Kenya occurred during the 2008 presidential campaign in the United States, while Obama, then in New Hampshire for the primary, maintained telephone contact with Odinga. Former members of Odinga’s Orange Democratic Movement, or ODM, party told WND that when Sen. Obama visited Kenya on a "fact-finding" trip in 2006, he was carrying out part of a secret strategy that also included exploiting divisive tribal tensions and ultimately taking advantage of the rioting. In Kenya, WND obtained an ODM campaign strategy document that planned for the Odinga campaign to have won the presidential election regardless of the actual vote count, simply by alleging voter fraud had stolen the win from Odinga. The plan further called for "opportunities" for Odinga to pursue, including exploiting ethnic tensions and using "violence as a last resort" to gain power. The record shows that rather than condemn Odinga for the post-election Luo tribal violence, Obama worked with former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan and then-U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to create for Odinga a way to share the head-of-state position with President Kibaki, even though Odinga lost the election. First, Obama, Annan and Rice approached Kenya's Vice President Stephene Kalanzo Musyoka to ask him to step down so Odinga could take his place in the new government. When the vice president refused, the next suggestion advanced by Obama-Annan-Rice was that a new position of prime minister should be created for Odinga as a way of appeasing the Luo and stopping the tribal violence. This was done, even though the Kenyan constitution nowhere provides for the creation of a prime minister to serve as co-head of state. Obama shuns Kibaki Obama's first trip to Africa as president is not the first time he has avoided being seen in public with Odinga. During the U.S. presidential campaign last June, Obama refused to meet with Odinga when the Kenyan leader traveled to Washington. At that time, Kevin Kelley reported in AllAfrica.com that the "Kenyan-American presidential candidate may wish to avoid meeting with the PM due to concerns that such contact would be used to stoke rumors intended to wound Senator Obama politically." After being elected president, Obama also snubbed Odinga by refusing to host a meeting with him at the White House during a visit in May.