Obama throws his Kenyan cousin under the bus, now.

[Manedwolf]

Is there anyone this man knows who is LEFT? How does the bus even move with so many bodies under it now?

No plans for Odinga-Obama meeting

Story by KEVIN J. KELLEY in Washington, DC
Publication Date: 6/16/2008

Senator Barack Obama is absent from the list of dignitaries with whom Prime Minister Raila Odinga is scheduled to confer during his current visit to Washington.

Prime Minister Raila Odinga during a recent visit in London. Photo/FILE
Peter Ogego, Kenyas ambassador to the United States, told the Nation on Sunday that an Odinga-Obama meeting is not in the programme of official talks that get underway on Tuesday.

The PMs plane is due to touch down at Dulles International Airport shortly after 3pm Washington time.

Mr Odinga has said he is a cousin of Mr Obamas, although the senators representatives deny that the two men are related.

The Kenyan-American presidential candidate may wish to avoid meeting with the PM due to concerns that such contact would be used to stoke rumours intended to wound Senator Obama politically.

Right-wing extremists have been circulating baseless claims on the Internet that Senator Obama is closely allied with Prime Minister Odinga, who is described by the Obama-haters as both an Islamist and a socialist.

 Mr Odingas visit will focus on efforts to promote US investment in Kenya and to win additional assistance for the country from the American government and the World Bank. Efforts will also be made to persuade Americans that it is again safe to visit Kenya, Mr Ogego said.

 The PMs round of confirmed appearances begins Tuesday morning with a talk at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank. He is then scheduled to be honoured at a luncheon co-hosted by the Kenya embassy and by the Corporate Council on Africa, which includes most of the US corporations that do business on the continent.

According to Mr Ogego, the PMs schedule will include the signing of two key agreements between Kenya and the US. These are the Kenya US open skies agreement set to be signed on Wednesday and the Kenya US Peace corps agreement which will be signed on Thursday.

The open skies agreement will involve the Kenya Airports being granted category A status by the US aviation authorities so as to allow Kenyan-registered planes to land in the US and vice versa.

Mr Ogego said that this agreement will allow Kenya to promote its trade, tourism, horticulture and agriculture.

As a key indication of return to normalcy, the US Peace Corps is expected to announce during Mr Odingas visit that its volunteers will soon resume their work in Kenya.

The visit is very important in that this is the first time a senior official of the Kenya Government is coming to the US after formation of the Grand Coalition, Mr Ogego said. Mr Odinga will tell US officials such as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that Kenya is back on course and the coalition is working, the ambassador added.

He will also meet and address Kenyans in the US as well as the US House Appropriations committee; the Sub-committee on State, Foreign Operations and related Programmes and House Foreign Relations Sub-committee on Africa and Global Health and USAID officials.

 Earlier today, Mr Odinga arrived at Heathrow Airport, London, on transit to the US. He was received by the Kenyan High Commissioner in London, Mr Joseph Muchemi. The PM is accompanied by the US ambassador to Kenya Michael Ranneberger and several Cabinet ministers.

(Additional reporting by the PM Press Service)
 

http://www.nationmedia.com/dailynation/nmgcontententry.asp?category_id=1&newsid=125450

[longeyes]

They're not under the bus, they're riding on top, under a tarp.  They'll be back after November if B.O. triumphs.

[AZRedhawk44]

Dear sir:

Allow me the honor of introducing myself to you.  I am the prince-regent Prime Minister Raila Odinga of Kenya.  It is of the utmost urgency that I contact you, and likewise of the same degree of urgency that we keep our conversations private.  Forces in my country conspire to rob me of a considerable wealth and I would like to transfer these monies to your holding, to be later retrieved upon my successful evacuation from the country.

If you did not know, we are cousins in blood and in philosophy, seeking the betterment of our fellow countrymen here in Kenya.  I am the custodian of the General Development funds of the Kenyan Tree-Planting Foundation in the First Bank of Kenya, a sum totalling $8,456,322.17 in United States currency.

If you would be so kind as to write me back with your banking information I will have my agents begin the funds transfer.

Yours in profundidity,

Raila Odinga Esq.

[Bigjake]

ahahahhha LMAO 

[agricola]

As an aside, if Obama's campaign bus was to run over an innocent child during the course of the election campaign, would the campaign bus be thrown under itself?

[yesitsloaded]

The children of capitalist pigs are never innocent. Be a good Komrade and move along with the proletariat revolution. Hope is Change, Hope is Change, Two legs bad , Four legs good, Two legs bad, Four legs good.

[roo_ster]

As an aside, if Obama's campaign bus was to run over an innocent child during the course of the election campaign, would the campaign bus be thrown under itself?

The philosophical conundrum of hte hour.

[Balog]

The only sure way for McCain to win; prove Obama is related to certain Nigerian politicians who need to transfer a lot of money out of the country....

[yesitsloaded]

Maybe the Obama campaign is just a plot to raise a lot of money to ship over to Nigeria.

[RaspberrySurprise]

As an aside, if Obama's campaign bus was to run over an innocent child during the course of the election campaign, would the campaign bus be thrown under itself?

Something tells me a black hole would form at the site and swallow everything withing five miles of the incident.