Posted on 07/11/2015 7:38:11 PM PDT by Steelfish
Barack Obama Goes Back To Kenya: 'It's Like JFK Going Back To Ireland'
Murithi Mutiga 11 July 2015 The silver-grey walls of the Godown Arts Centre, a sprawling converted car repair warehouse that offers a home to many of Nairobi’s most creative minds, usually feature a rotating cast of murals celebrating sports stars, freedom fighters and screen sirens such as the Oscar-winning Kenyan actress Lupita Nyong’o.
In recent weeks all those figures have been overshadowed by the likeness of one man. At the gate a whole section is taken up by a full-face painting of President Barack Obama looking into the distance and wearing a wistful expression.
In the warrens of cubicles in the theatre, the star painting is an acrylic and oil portrait of Obama, seated on a still growing tree in a lime-green jungle, striking the pose of a Roman emperor with his shoeless feet dipping into a stream. “We are very excited about his visit,” says Evans Yegon, 30, who painted the portrait. “We are just curious to see how things will be and we just can’t wait.”
Kenya is in the grip of Obama-mania. For weeks, newspapers have led with numerous articles describing preparations for the trip at the end of the month and analysing its importance. Readers have been inundated with every detail about efforts to keep Obama safe, with tales about his limousine, “a tank on four wheels” (the Star), a favourite.
Roads have been relaid, malfunctioning street lights fixed, billboards erected and the highway between the airport and the central business district boasts a new garden – although social media users have been quick to note, witheringly, that the newly planted flowers are unlikely to have blossomed before Obama arrives.
It is hard to overstate Obama’s popularity in Kenya..
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Bingo....
But wait until he starts talking about his boyfriends.
Kind of like his grandmother “Toot”?
Don’t they have some pretty tough laws over there for faggotry?
He won’t be able to help himself from mentioning it. It become part of his every speech.
JFK wasn’t born in Ireland.
He actually had a birth certificate.
He served in our armed forces.
He lost a brother in the Pacific (believe it was).
I’m not a huge fan of JFK, but comparing Obama to him in any way is a massive insult.
Except JFK wasn’t born in Ireland.
He was lost in Europe. Daddy had him lined up to be the first of four Kennedy presidents.
Yes, I know he was prepping him for the White House.
Thanks for the correction.
It seemed I remembered him not dying in the Pacific, but I didn’t remember for sure.
“He lost a brother in the Pacific (believe it was).”
It was John Kennedy who served in the Pacific- PT-109 and all that.
His older brother Joseph was a Naval aviator serving in the ETO where he was killed in ‘Operation Aphrodite’.
Thanks Pelham. Those of you who mentioned that reminded me.
I had heard it before, but I didn’t recall clearly.
I don’t think I had ever seen a reference about the operation he died in.
Oh, yeah, it’s just like it ... snicker
The planes involved were stripped down bombers packed to the gills with explosives, and remote controlled to their target. But they needed live pilots for take off and for part of the trip. Very dangerous duty. Kennedy's plane exploded over the Channel before he and his copilot parachuted.
That’s unfortunate. Thanks for the mention.
It is difficult to forget ones Vaterland.
JFK's older brother Joe died in the ETO.
Fixed.
Or just going back to visit with his mass-mudering cousin Raila Odinga whom he helped elect ...
But JFK was born in Massachusetts.Official records,available for *anyone* to see,prove that.
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