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In reply to the discussion: NBC’s Jansing on Obama Meeting African Leaders: Helps That ‘He’s from Kenya’ [View all]stone space
(6,498 posts)2. Meh...sounds like she just misspoke. It's minor.
It would escape attention entirely and pass without notice were it not for the teabaggers/birthers having raised our attennas for such comments.
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
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NBC’s Jansing on Obama Meeting African Leaders: Helps That ‘He’s from Kenya’ [View all]
Garthem
Aug 2014
OP
She said "The fact that he is from Kenya..." does not sound like she misspoke. She had to be
AlinPA
Aug 2014
#32
As an African American Shits not funny to me shows still how some white people are ignorant
bigdarryl
Aug 2014
#3
White people make mistakes. Guess what? Black people make mistakes, too. (nt)
stone space
Aug 2014
#40
Maybe now, before that Qaddafi called Obama 'son of Africa' multiple times, look where it got him
jakeXT
Aug 2014
#6
One of the other people on the show corrected her. Jansing called it a fact that he is from Kenya.
AlinPA
Aug 2014
#33
I watched the video, but didn't see any mention of her hs grade in civics. (nt)
stone space
Aug 2014
#43
This is a RW talking point, why does the many in the GOP believe Obama is from Kenya.
Thinkingabout
Aug 2014
#23
How can you say she misspoke when she actually said "The fact that he is from Kenya..."?
AlinPA
Aug 2014
#34
Imagination is a wonderful thing. There are whole political parties built on it. n/t
jtuck004
Aug 2014
#51