How Barack Obama has Betrayed the Promises He Made to His Own Father's African Village
Evening Standard - London › July 25, 2008
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The man who could be America's first black president arrives in Britain today on his triumphant foreign tour. But despite the Obama hype, the Evening Standard can reveal that the charismatic leader has failed to deliver pledges to improve life in a poverty-stricken Kenyan community he insists has a special place in his heart
IT IS an extraordinary sight to walk into a basic two-room house under a mango tree in rural east Africa and discover what is essentially a shrine to Barack Obama. The small brick house with no running water, a tin roof and roving chickens, goats and cows is owned by Sarah Obama, Barack's 86- year-old step-grandmother. Inside, the walls are decorated with a 2008 Obama election sticker, an old "Barack Obama for Senate" poster on which he has written "Mama Sarah Habai [how are you?]", a 2005 calendar that says "The Kenyan Wonder Boy in the US", and more than a dozen family photos.See the full content of this document
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How Barack Obama has Betrayed the Promises He Made to His Own Father's African Village
But this bucolic scene in his father's village of Kogelo near the Equator in western Kenya conceals a troubling reality that, until now, has never been spoken about. Barack Obama, the Evening Standard can reveal, after we went to the village earlier this month, has failed to honour the pledges of assistance that he made to a school named in his honour when he visited here amid great fanfare two years ago.
At that historic homecoming in August 2006 Obama was greeted as a hero with thousands lining the dirt streets of Kogelo. He visited the Senator Obama Kogel...See the full content of this document
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