[Gena Bukin]

Did the paper EVER correct their “mistake”?

Yes.

Left’s (sic) face it, Obama is not ‘our own’ By Wallace Kantai, Sunday Standard Sunday, July 4th, 2004.

"It is looking increasingly likely that Barrack Obama will be elected in November as Senator of the State of Illinois. The number of prospective voters has increased after his presumptive opponent in the election was felled by accusations of sexual impropriety.

Simultaneous with Obama’s rising stature is the increasing desire by Kenyans to identify with him. Typical newspaper headlines and messages flying around the Internet tend to lead with the theme "Kenyan-linked", or "Kenyan-American", or even, erroneously, "Kenyan-born".

People like identifying with winners, especially when they can be linked to them in a direct way. However, Kenyans are mistaken in attempting to claim Mr Barrack Obama as one of their own..."

[Yaelle]

Thanks.