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Originally posted at Pax
Parabellum

How many “associations” must a man have to acts of atrocity before He
is called on them? Here is yet another instance of Comrade Senator
Obama having political violence firmly affixed to his name.

(via The
Other McCain)

From the Washington
Times:

About 50 parishioners were locked into the Assemblies of
God church before it was set ablaze. They were mostly women and
children. Those who tried to flee were hacked to death by
machete-wielding members of a mob numbering 2,000.

The 2008 New Year Day atrocity in the Kenyan village Eldoret, about
185 miles northwest of Nairobi, had all the markings of the Rwanda
genocide of a decade earlier.

By mid-February 2008, more than 1,500 Kenyans were killed. Many were
slain by machete-armed attackers. More than 500,000 were displaced by
the religious strife. Villages lay in ruin. Many of the atrocities
were perpetrated by Muslims against Christians.

The violence was led by supporters of Raila Odinga, the opposition
leader who lost the Dec. 27, 2007, presidential election by more than
230,000 votes. Odinga supporters began the genocide hours after the
final election results were announced Dec. 30. Mr. Odinga was a member
of Parliament representing an area in western Kenya, heavily populated
by the Luo tribe, and the birthplace of Barack Obama’s father.

All too often we have heard of atrocities such as this in Africa.
This time, Obama is linked squarely with the horrors. Obama
campaigned for this man, his cousin, in Kenya.

That Obama supported Odinga is not deniable:

Initially, Mr. Odinga was not the favored opposition
candidate to stand in the 2007 election against President Mwai Kibaki,
who was seeking his second term. However, he received a tremendous
boost when Sen. Barack Obama arrived in Kenya in August 2006 to
campaign on his behalf. Mr. Obama denies that supporting Mr. Odinga
was the intention of his trip, but his actions and local media reports
tell otherwise.

Mr. Odinga and Mr. Obama were nearly inseparable throughout Mr.
Obama’s six-day stay. The two traveled together throughout Kenya and
Mr. Obama spoke on behalf of Mr. Odinga at numerous rallies. In
contrast, Mr. Obama had only criticism for Kibaki. He lashed out
against the Kenyan government shortly after meeting with the president
on Aug. 25. “The [Kenyan] people have to suffer over corruption
perpetrated by government officials,” Mr. Obama announced.

“Kenyans are now yearning for change,” he declared. The intent of Mr.
Obama’s remarks and actions was transparent to Kenyans - he was firmly
behind Mr. Odinga.

Obama supported a MARXIST in supporting his cousin:

This was not Mr. Odinga’s first brush with notoriety. Like
his father, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, the main opposition leader in the
1960s and 1970s, Raila Odinga is a Marxist He graduated from East
Germany’s Magdeburg University in 1970 on a scholarship provided by
the East German government. He named his oldest son after Fidel
Castro.

Raila Odinga was implicated in the bloody coup attempt in 1982 against
then-President Daniel Arap Moi, a close ally of the United States.
Kenya has been one of the most stable democracies in Africa since the
1960s. The ethnic cleansing earlier this year was the worst violence
in Kenya since that 1982 coup attempt.

Obama supported Odinga even when Odinga had declared support for
racism, misogyny, and religious oppression when he campaigned for
Shariah law:

The details of the MOU were shocking. In return for Muslim
backing, Mr. Odinga promised to impose a number of measures favored by
Muslims if he were elected president. Among these were recognition of
“Islam as the only true religion,” Islamic leaders would have an
“oversight role to monitor activities of ALL other religions [emphasis
in original],” installation of Shariah courts in every jurisdiction, a
ban on Christian preaching, replacement of the police commissioner who
“allowed himself to be used by heathens and Zionists,” adoption of a
women’s dress code, and bans on alcohol and pork.

What does Comrade Obama care about? He does not seem to care about
the genocide of his cousin. He does not seem to care about the
terrorism of his friend and fellow (twice) board member Bill Ayers.
He does not seem to care about the anti-Americanism of his pastor
(until it costs him in the polls, that is)… Barack Obama has the
taint of Genocide and Terrorism upon him with these and other
“associations.”

Bill
Ayers and Bernadine Dorhn were just associations.

Tony
Rezko was just an association.

Khalid
al-Mansoor was just an association.

Jeremiah
Wright was just a twenty year association.

Michael
Pfleger was just an association.

ACORN
is just an association.

Jim
Johnson and Franklin
Raines are just associations.

Rashid
Khalidi was just an associate.

Raila Odinga, just a cousin, just an associate, just a leader of a
genocidal political party a world away. Just someone Barack Obama
thought should be elected to the highest office in the land of his
father…

When will these associations, this avalanche of bad judgments, come
home to roost?