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Originally Posted by crowonapost
See it really doesn't matter. In Kenya politicians can say many things. Two because of the nature of tribalism in Kenya...everyone is considered family no matter how distantly related. Does it matter? No. Because it's symbolic. What it really represents is pride in having one of their own being involved in the greatest nation on earth. A man of a country, a continent & race that has been much maligned for decades by Western powers. To them it is a great pride. That is all.
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I know I read all that, but again, even though the writer wrote tons of stuff, he never said that Obama wasn't the man's cousin.
It was one of those things I thought would have been said simply, then he could have added the stuff about it being "tribal" so in a tribal sense true, but in skimming it, the writer never once really came out and said it wasn't true. The more I read the article, the stranger it became.
Again, I only skimmed the article, so might have missed it, but my point on Obama is there. If an important international politician was claiming both of those things (direct relation and support), I would go out of my way to clarify whether or not that was true.