Word: kenyans
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...blaneysblarney tweets things like this: "Now Obama, who the eurofederasts love, is happy to leave us to the mercy of the mad mullahs." The real Blaney just blogged on Obama, suggesting the President might have done better in pitching for the Chicago Olympics "to play up his Kenyan heritage (and, as some allege, the country of his birth)." Blaney says that it's precisely because the impostor is doing a good job of imitating him that he decided to act. "If it was a parody, if it had been set up saying 'I'm bored today...
...Wednesday, in an attempt to defuse Kenyan and U.S. anger, the much-criticized chief of the Kenyan Anti-Corruption Commission resigned. (Outrage had followed Kibaki's decision to reappoint Aaron Ringera earlier this month despite his failure to confront corruption.) Though Ringera's resignation was considered a good sign, the Kenyan government's primary response to the letters was to accuse Obama of a breach of protocol for writing to the 15 officials directly rather than to Kibaki. Instead of acknowledging the slow pace of reform, Foreign Minister Moses Wetangula suggested that actions like the U.S.'s could "precipitate...
...government's treatment of Ranneberger reflected just how unwilling it was to acknowledge that Obama might think badly of the Kenyan leadership. Ranneberger, a longtime Africa hand, was accused of turning an otherwise sympathetic Obama against Kenya with misinformation. "We appreciate the way Hillary Clinton has treated us with respect and decorum," government spokesman Alfred Mutua said in a recent interview, referring to the Secretary of State's visit to Kenya this summer. "She achieved more in two days than what the U.S. mission in Nairobi has achieved in the last two years by intimidation and threats. Our perspective...
Ranneberger is indeed outspoken - he recently opened a Twitter account, USAMB4REFORM - to tweet his thoughts on Kenya. "Despite warnings by some, I will still speak out supporting reforms in Kenya," read one. "President Obama and the Kenyan people demand nothing less...
While there was some public annoyance with Washington's action, the government's attempt to appeal to Kenyan nationalism may have backfired. Regular Kenyans seem to think that Brother Barack was only doing his familial duty. An unofficial television poll after the news of the U.S. letters broke found that 82% of respondents disagreed with the Foreign Ministry's move to summon Ranneberger. And no one is more critical of Kenya's leaders than Kenyans themselves. "The government's attitude has been that this can't be happening unless somebody's inciting Obama and that it's got nothing...