{"id":1182,"date":"2008-02-08T13:09:35","date_gmt":"2008-02-08T17:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/08\/tell-obama-we-want-guns\/"},"modified":"2008-02-08T13:10:48","modified_gmt":"2008-02-08T17:10:48","slug":"tell-obama-we-want-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1182","title":{"rendered":"“Tell Obama we want guns”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Usually, for all of my Luo News, I defer to Baldilocks<\/a>. But this story proved too good to pass up. Apparently, Barack Obama’s appeal extends beyond US borders, according to an NDTV<\/a> report;<\/p>\n

Amidst the riots taking place in the sprawling slums of Kenya, the rioters are occupied with something from the US – Barack Obama.<\/p>\n

Obama, whose father is a Kenyan, is a favourite son of the nation that erupted into violence after the hotly contested elections in December.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, according to the BBC<\/a> he’s a bit more than a “favorite son”;<\/p>\n

Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga has said he is a cousin of US presidential hopeful Barack Obama.<\/p>\n

Mr Odinga told the BBC’s The World Today that Senator Obama’s father was his maternal uncle.<\/p>\n

Mr Obama’s father – a Kenyan also called Barack – met and married his American mother when they were students at the university of Hawaii.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So what would Luo tribesmen like from Obama?<\/p>\n

“We are supporting him here. We want him to win the election,” said Mohammed Noor, 27.<\/p>\n

“Did you know that Obama’s father is also Luo?” he added.<\/p>\n

Behind Noor, young men yelled: “Tell Obama we want guns!”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I wonder if arms shipments are included in that nebulous “change” that Obama is always mentioning.<\/p>\n

It must be that “sirens’ call” that Rick Moran wrote about at the Right Wing Nut House<\/a> today. If Obama’s song can pull them in all the way from Africa, maybe we need something a little sturdier than a mast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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