Sen. Barack Obama Electrifies Kenyans

[Omaha Steve]

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Sen. Barack Obama Electrifies Kenyans
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Aug 29, 4:47 PM (ET)

By TOM MALITI

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - During a visit to his father's homeland, Sen. Barack Obama electrified the thousands of Kenyans who thronged every stop of his tour.

Some hoped for promises of largesse, others to bask in the glory of a successful African-American politician, but all wanted to see the man they consider a local kid made good.

"Simply by coming here, he was making a very important statement. He was telling all Kenyans, and especially our youth, that the sky is really the limit," columnist Dominic Odipo wrote in Kenya's oldest newspaper, The Standard.


US Senator Barack Obama, left. planting an African Olive Tree at Uhuru Park Naiorbi, Monday, Aug. 28, 2006, On the right is Nobel Peace laureate, Wangari Maathai. (AP Photo/Sayyid Azim)


This despite the fact that Obama never lived in Africa - he was born in Hawaii, where he spent most of his childhood raised by his mother, a white American from Kansas - and he barely knew his father, an economist from the western Kenyan village of Nyangoma-Kogelo.

[MidwestTransplant]

1. Electrifies! How dare a United States Senator torture Kenyans.

[Ian David]

2. Bush has been electrifying assorted brown people for years now. n/t

[Ian David]

3. Soon, as the climate continues to change due to Global Warming...

Kenya will become a lush, land of plenty...

And Sally Struthers will be begging the world to feed the starving, bloated children of America for only one Kenyan dollar per day.

The sky is the limit!

Thank you, Mister Bush! We Like You!

[gratuitous]

4. Compare and contrast, class: Bush and Obama

Obama plays to enthusiastic crowds in Kenya; George W. Bush turns away a nun from his "private" worship service in a New Orleans church for security reasons.

[warrens]

5. He's electrifying a lot of people

It may have been a cheap shot, but going after African govts for corruption is a good move. First, it's wildly true and proveable. Second, it shows he's not just some guy looking for a photo op.

I think there is a good chance he might be running for president in two years.

[applegrove]

6. Obama is the next generation of Democratic Leaders. Glad the old

war horses are the ones stepping into career ending battle with the nuts in the WH...........are they? Gore & President Clinton a bit. Lieberman has.. even if he hasn't figured it out yet. Anyone else? All the retired people who have given up jobs to be able to speak the truth. Bill Moyers et all.