ok so someone says Odinga is Obama's cousin, but there is no evidence for this (and we seem to be talking about something mroe remote than second cousin at best anyway)
someone says Obama campaigned for Obama, but we have no evidence for this for all I know odinga claims to be my cousin too... ::shrug:: On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Jerry Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Didnt I post a snopes on this the first time you posted it?" > > Dana, > > I do not know if you posted a snopes link or not. I never saw one, but I > don't read every post. Sometimes I don't read cf-community for weeks at a > time. > > The snopes article does not deny that Odinga claimed Obama is his cousin. I > have never claimed that Odinga is Obama's cousin. All the snopes article > does is verify what I the link that I posted: That Odinga claims Obama as > his cousin. The snopes article verifies that Obama made public > appearances with Odinga in 2006. > > The money donation thing I'll concede since an Obama spokesman said he > didn't give money to Odinga. I'll concede that Obama didn't ask Dick Morris > to help Obama either since Morris said he did it of his own free will. > > Back to the nature of this thread, it was suggested that people might find > it newsworthy that Obama has relatives in Kenya. Likewise, some people > might find it newsworthy that the formerly imprisoned for insurrection, > communist, muslim prime minister of Kenya, whose followers rioted and killed > many Christians after he lost an election, claims to be Obama's cousin, > especially considering that Obama has contacted him and given speeches with > him. Obviously you don't. > > Here is a link to a CBS2 news clip at youtube that shows excerpts of Obama > in Africa. Part of the clip talks about the president of Kenya accusing > Obama of campaigning for Odinga: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpvLV3d1Eq4&eurl > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:280243 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
