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Originally Posted by vermicious knid

The way I see it, they are purposely trying to avoid anything that could be taken as racially-based attacks. They have chosen to make an issue of his association with a white American, and ignored how Obama got cozy with the violent opposition leader in Kenya, Raila Odinga. After Odinga lost an election recently, his supporters began a campaign of ethnic cleansing, brutally murdering and raping countless people. Human Rights Watch says that violence was fomented from the top.

If John McCain and Sarah Palin really wanted to paint Obama as a Muslim, they might point out this man Obama was supporting for President of Kenya had gathered the support of Muslim leaders by agreeing to institute Sharia law. And if they were serious about painting him as a terrorist, they might explain how Odinga planned to make suspects of terrorism safe from extradition.

What's your source on this?

From factcheck.org:

"Guilt By Association


A frequent Corsi tactic is to point to some link between Obama and various unsavory persons and to imply that Obama somehow shares in their unsavoriness. He devotes an entire chapter to violent uprisings in Kenya following a disputed presidential election in 2007. The link to Obama? During a visit to Kenya in 2006, Obama and his wife, Michelle, arranged to take an AIDS test to publicly demonstrate the test's safety. While there, Obama spoke to the assembled crowd. Raila Odinga, one of the two candidates running for president, was on the stage when Obama spoke. Corsi concludes that the event constituted an endorsement of Odinga. He goes on to attribute all the violence in Kenya to an elaborate Odinga plot.

Corsi, however, offers no evidence that Obama actually did endorse Odinga. In fact, MSNBC reported that during that same trip, Obama also met with Mwai Kibaki, who was Odinga's opponent in that election, as well as with opposition leader Uhuru Kenyatta. And Human Rights Watch reported that both Odinga and Kibaki (or their supporters, anyway) had a hand in the violence that followed the election."

http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2...l_hatchet.html