“Tell Obama we want guns”

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

Amidst the riots taking place in the sprawling slums of Kenya, the rioters are occupied with something from the US – Barack Obama.

Obama, whose father is a Kenyan, is a favourite son of the nation that erupted into violence after the hotly contested elections in December.

Well, according to the BBC he’s a bit more than a “favorite son”;

Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga has said he is a cousin of US presidential hopeful Barack Obama.

Mr Odinga told the BBC’s The World Today that Senator Obama’s father was his maternal uncle.

Mr Obama’s father – a Kenyan also called Barack – met and married his American mother when they were students at the university of Hawaii.

So what would Luo tribesmen like from Obama?

“We are supporting him here. We want him to win the election,” said Mohammed Noor, 27.

“Did you know that Obama’s father is also Luo?” he added.

Behind Noor, young men yelled: “Tell Obama we want guns!”

I wonder if arms shipments are included in that nebulous “change” that Obama is always mentioning.

It must be that “sirens’ call” that Rick Moran wrote about at the Right Wing Nut House today. If Obama’s song can pull them in all the way from Africa, maybe we need something a little sturdier than a mast.

Category: Foreign Policy, Politics