There is discussion about Obama's "homecoming."
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There is discussion about Obama's "homecoming."
Kenyan Parliament On
Obama's Birth There
From Devvy Kidd
1-26-9
This is the official web site of the Kenyan Parliament:
This is from a session November 5, 2008:
http://www.bunge.go.ke/downloads/Tenth%20P...rd/5.11.08A.pdf
"Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the President-elect, Mr. Obama, is a son of the soil of this country. Every other country in this continent is celebrating the Obama win. It is only proper and fitting that the country which he originates from should show the same excitement, pomp and colour. I, therefore, seek leave of the House that we adjourn to discuss the issue...."
"What I have in mind is the famous Kennedy airlifts of the 1960s when many Kenyans were, due the friendship with the then Government and the late Tom Joseph Mboya, given the opportunity to travel to the United States of America as a result of [The Vice-President and Minister for Home Affairs] which we now have an African American of Kenyan origin being President-elect. This is momentous. At 4.00 o'clock this morning, Senator Barrack Obama called me at midnight and told me: "Mr. Vice President, could you make sure you sort out this problem?" I want to assure him that the problem has since been sorted out...."
"Kenya is going to receive a lot of attention, but let it not be negative because we are the home of the President-Elect of the USA."
"Could we allow him to move a Motion for Adjournment so we could also continue the celebrations of having a Kenyan ruling the USA?"
"..than a time when the Great America has a President-elect who has his roots in the great Republic of Kenya."
There is discussion about Obama's "homecoming."
http://drorly.blogspot.com/2009/01/obama-s...kenya-soil.html
These records are somewhere on Orly's site 'cause I've seen them:
http://drorly.blogspot.com/2009/01/ap-repo...rom-reader.html
"Excerpts of Ca Assembly show Soetoro from Indonesia receiving foreign exchange student aid. Maybe AP should stop drinking Obama cool aid for a minute or two and start serious investigative reporting about him."
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Don't read too much into this, T.
All the things said could be said about a 2nd, 3rd, or 4th generation African-American.
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