Nairobi , Kenya – President Barack Obama’s at his visit to Kenya said that he suspects that some of his critics back home, particularly those who don’t believe he’s American, think he’s in Kenya “to look for my birth certificate.”
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Well, “that is not the case,” he joked at a state dinner in his honor hosted by President Uhuru Kenyatta and his wife, Margaret.
Obama also joked that the occasion amounted to a “somewhat unusual Obama family reunion” because siblings, aunts, uncles and a grandmother from his father’s side of the family attended.
His late father was born in Kenya. Obama was born in Hawaii. He released a copy of his birth certificate several years ago but that hasn’t quieted the doubters.
Obama is on his first visit to Kenya as president.
The President also said that the U.S. and Kenya are working to launch direct flights between the countries.
Obama says eliminating multiple legs of travel to get from one place to the other would be a boon for business and tourism.
Kenya’s $1 billion tourism industry has suffered in the wake of mass assaults carried out in recent years by the al-Shabab extremist group, which is based across the border in Somalia.
Obama says the U.S. Transportation and Homeland Security departments are working with Kenyan officials on the protocols and security issues that must be settled before direct flights can begin.
He declined to say how soon that might happen, but said progress is being made.
Alas President Obama is 3/5 of “class.” The last 3 fifths!
A kenyan son, an American president = an unmitigated disaster.
Who cares WHERE you born? We know where your heart and allegiances lie, and that is more important than the random happenstance of where one is born. Where is your sympathy, your loyalty, your roots? Where is your worldview? How DO you view the country that you were born in, from a father who hated everything and the west stood for.
We have paid a steep price for this presidency, but not because where he was born, but where is and how he seems himself.
its not a joke