Katy Gabel
4 November 2008
staff blog
AllAfrica's Katy Gabel captures the anticipation in Kisumu, just hours before the polls will start to close in the United States.
12 am East Africa Time: It's still early, but Kisumu residents are setting up for a late night of waiting for returns from the United States.
A large screen has been installed in the city's largest public park, and MSNBC is available at a number of the city's bars and restaurants. I'm watching muted footage from an American television station with a medley of locally-produced songs praising Obama playing in the background. "Tomorrow will be somewhat chaotic," one bar patron tells me.
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Kenya's blessing? Please. A 'Kenyan' (there is no Kenyan nation) who made President elect Barack Obama's mother a single parent, abandoning the young boy to a life without a father. No, you can't do that; that which even a animal cannot do: abandon its issue.
Where have you been these past two years?
"There are no peoples---whether black, white, brown, whatever. THERE IS THE HUMAN RACE."
GET IT?
Before you bring houlier than though attitude do you know what happened between obama parents? Has Obama complained of neglect? Why did he have to go to kogelo to see his step grand mother? Was he forced to? If you dont have answers to these quesitions just shut up. You might have been the ones who were spreading propaganda about obama that he is a terrorist an antchrist etc.
The rhetorical topos of your questions---silly and wrongheaded questions, really---is called by lawyers "leading questions." May I return the favor? Do you have answers to your boneheaded questions? If you don't, then S H U T U P, SHUT UP, a zillion times.
Unlike you, I'll stick with intersubjectively available facts:
1. PAPA OBAMA did not raise President elect Barack Obama. Now, do YOU know why he did NOT raise his own son? If you don't, may I suggest you SHUT UP?
2. If my father ain't around when I need a father in my life, I would feel that he neglected me; fortunately, despite the spagetti spine of the Kenyan 'father,' Obama was raised by his 'white' mother and 'white' grandmother. Do you know what "neglect" connotes in the United States? It rocks in zone pathological. And, if so, and thus it is, do you imagine that a saavy politico like Obama, a supreme operator in the rough and tumble of Chicago politics, would announce to the world that he was neglected by his father? Moreover, a former President of the Harvard Law Review knows that when a fact is obvious, as here---his father's vile behavior--one does not make an issue thereof.
3. As for the visit to Kogelo, do you wish to allocate the sins of Obama's father to his paternal grandmother? I would hope not, for I am sure Grandma at Kogelo taught Papa Obama not to abandon his son. Or, do you think otherwise?
Finally, may I remind you that the word "terrorist" is not to be deployed lightly in the USA? Accordingly, your last sentence in your obscurantist post supra is a question for the United States Department of Homeland Security and the many, many, many versions of "Christianity," for if there is no ONE CHRISTIANITY, it is wrongheaded to stammer the lexeme "ANCHRIST." [SIC].
Best Regards.
Thank you to all the great and wonderful people of Kenya. Your blessing brought about a change never before seen in the history of our country, the United States of America. I am sure you carry the joy of knowing the truth of America as the land of freedom exists in everyone here and that your knowledge of that truth gives you the strength to carry you and your country to the same situation. Again, thank you and God Bless... Robert