He's forging a new alliance with John Kerry:
Posted on 09/20/2009 10:25:17 AM PDT by Baladas
Is it that officially the USA recognizes Mwai Kibaki and not Raila Odinga as the legitimate President of Kenya?
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ke.html
Clearly the stated reason is fake. The President of Kenya is the head of state and the head of government.
He can’t afford to have another communist show up in his little circle of life...and this one a relative....for whom he campaigned. They don’t want “Odinga” and “Obama” in the same news story. Glenn Beck might investigate and report.
Throwin the head homeboy under the bus.....terrible just terrible.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_South_Africa
The President of the Republic of South Africa is the head of state and head of government under South Africa’s Constitution. From 1961 to 1994, the head of state was called the State President.
So who is the President? And how does this idea of a coalition fit into this scheme.
He's forging a new alliance with John Kerry:
Must be some family feud.
Obama is afraid that, sometime during the luncheon, Odinga will stand up, tap his crystal glass with his spoon, face Obama and say - “WHOOZ YER DADDY??”
I thought we were talking about Kenya.
The State Department’s web site says this:
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/2962.htm
On February 28, 2008, President Kibaki and Raila Odinga signed a power-sharing agreement, which provided for the establishment of a prime minister position (to be filled by Odinga) and two deputy prime minister positions, as well as the division of an expanded list of cabinet posts according to the parties’ proportional representation in parliament. On March 18, 2008, the Kenyan parliament amended the constitution and adopted legislation to give legal force to the agreement. On April 17, 2008 the new coalition cabinet and Prime Minister Odinga were sworn in.
It falls short of declaring Odinga head of state or head of government though.
I stand corrected; state.gov does declare the Kenyan President head of state and the Prime Minister head of government.
The mistake was in the orginal invite. Odinga should not have been invited to a HOG affair any more than Nancy Pelosi should.
More like Al Gore with a gun.
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