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Obama's grandmother under 24-hour guard after Kenya break-in
Sep 12, 2008, 8:42 GMT
Nairobi - Kenyan police have set up a 24-hour guard outside the home of US presidential candidate Barack Obama's grandmother after thieves targeted her home, reports said Friday.
Obama's grandmother Sarah, 86, said burglars broke in through her kitchen door in the western Kenyan village of Kogelo and attempted to steal a solar panel from her roof.
Local police chief Johnston Ipara told the Daily Nation that two tents had been set up outside Sarah Obama's home until a permanent police station was built nearby.
'The police can stay here as long as they wish, they are most welcome,' Sarah Obama said. The senator's grandmother has expressed concerns over her security in the past.
Close relatives told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa that her life had become almost impossible since her grandson's rise to prominence, with her privacy being constantly invaded.
Sarah Obama told the Daily Nation that some people have pretended to be journalists in order to gain access to her home.
Senator Obama's father, the late Barack Obama Senior, was born in Kenya but fathered Barack while in the United States. The Democratic presidential candidate has only visited Kenya a handful of times.
His Kenyan family connections are being used for political capital, with US conservatives accusing him of failing to support his half-brother George, who lives in the Nairobi slum Huruma.
US conservative Dinesh D'Souza has started a 'George Obama Compassionate Fund' and is encouraging people to donate to pull the senator's brother out of poverty.
However, Obama's Kenyan relatives dismissed the fund, saying it was the result of negative publicity in the Western media and that no help was needed.
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In Hindsight, Hillary Looks Good as a Running Mate
By Marianne Means (abridged)
Sen. Hillary Clinton must be as bemused as her many supporters are (that's a polite word) by the excitement Gov. Sarah Palin has brought to a dull Republican ticket. It might even help the GOP win! Horrors! Why didn't Sen. Barack Obama think of this? Why didn't he summon the courage to add Clinton to his own Democratic ticket?
No real understandable reasons, or excuses, have been forthcoming. Except, of course, he was running so strongly against the old guy in white hair that he thought he didn't need any help.
'Not a good fit' was about the closest an Obama mouthpiece came to an explanation. Meaning, one assumes, that he couldn't bear a competing shining star. McCain, of course, has no such worries. He is who he is, and Palin cannot challenge that. But she is proving so popular, if the raft of recent polls are sustained, that she is becoming a big political figure in her own right. At the moment, she is still a political stunt, but a successful one. In their first ad featuring Palin, the GOP shows the pair together and an announcer proclaims, 'They'll make history,' a not-so-subtle message that she could be the first female vice president.
She is the anti-Clinton, opposed to every domestic and social policy for which Clinton has worked for decades, yet she is pulling away hordes of white female voters who refused to settle for Obama after he dumped Hillary. [...]
...The polls are unambiguous about the boost Palin gave to the GOP ticket, particularly among white women who never cottoned to Obama's cool, male attitude of superiority.
The USA TODAY/Gallup Poll showed that among registered voters McCain leads Obama by 4 points, 50 percent to 46 percent. Before the GOP convention, riding on his own convention bounce, Obama led by 7 points.
Significantly, according to the poll, more voters call themselves Republicans than before — 47 percent say they are Republicans or lean that way, 48 percent say they are Democrats or lean that way. Republicans have not been within a single point of Democrats in party identification since February 2005, after Bush's second inauguration. None of this may last. But it's not small potatoes either. Republicans are suddenly energized and hopeful, even though a dismal Bush administration and sagging economy have left them few reasons to feel that way. And Obama, who opted not to take pubic financing as McCain did, is struggling to raise the cash he needs through massive, and increasingly distracting fund-raising efforts. A Washington Post-ABC News poll reports similar reactions. Among all voters who supported Clinton, nearly a quarter say they plan to support McCain in November, although Obama has won over 78 per cent of women who were previously for Hillary.
It comes down to the self-declared independents, who now for the first time break narrowly for McCain. The score is 50 percent for McCain to 43 for Obama, not such a big margin but a revolution in the speed-dial political campaigns of today.
Wow! Clearly, Obama has been making major mistakes, the first of which was to reject Hillary. The over-the-top 'I'm the Messiah' stuff and the grandiose backdrops haven't sold well either, except with impressionable liberal college kids.
The basic Obama pitch that he could bring the country together simply by the strength of his oratory is in tatters.The McCain campaign has been doing much better, with less to work with. In fact, it has been a miracle of repositioning and risk-taking and smiles, smiles, smiles. And, it is fair to add, a lot of exaggerations, misleading comments and outright fibs.
www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/09/in_hindsight_hillary_looks_g oo.html
'The basic Obama pitch that he could bring the country together simply by the strength of his oratory is in tatters.The McCain campaign has been doing much better, with less to work with. In fact, it has been a miracle of repositioning and risk-taking and smiles, smiles, smiles. And, it is fair to add, a lot of exaggerations, misleading comments and outright fibs.'
As it has been pointed out numerous times you are a liar who supports liars who supports liars who are lying! The right wing is very proud of your hard work liar!
mom and dad married or is he just another bastard?
'Was Obama's
mom and dad married or is he just another bastard?'
Obama's father was a polygamist. He was married to someone else when he married Obamas mother.
'As it has been pointed out numerous times you are a liar who supports liars who supports liars who are lying!'
Foaming at the mouth much?
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what a sleazy soap opera..Sep 12th, 2008 - 16:36:23
Let me get this straight, this isn't the 'racist' granny who objected to being harassed for money at the bus stop that he couldn't turn his back on any more then he could throw his racist pastor under the bus... who he then threw under the bus... this is a different granny who was the mother of the polygamist who fathered Obama then split to find other gullible women.
It is probably Obamas grandma who keeps sending me e-mails from Kenya telling me I have inherited millions from someone I didn't know.
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