Kenya believe it? Left, right focused on Obama roots
From ‘Mau Mau’ to ‘We’re stuck with the guy,’ all eyes on Africa
s Barack Obama American? Activists from across the political spectrum say we may not find out for years and it really doesn’t matter at this point.
And he should go back to Kenya.
Obama’s family links to the African nation that he’s heavily subsidized with American tax dollars during his president are well-known. As is the controversy over his birth certificate and whether he’s actually qualified to be president under the Constitution’s demand that commanders in chief be a “natural born citizen.”
The latest to dispatch Obama, at least wishfully, to the dark continent was New Black Panther Part chief Hashim Nzinga, who was stirring up sentiment during the rioting this week in Ferguson, Missouri, where a black teenager was shot and killed by a police officer.
He reportedly took over what has been planned to be a press conference by local police.
“This is a shame that as we speak the president of United States is talking to Russia, he’s talking to China, he’s talking to North Korea, he’s talking to Iraq and the Middle East about treating their people better,” Nzinga said. “But as he look[s] out the window at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, he’s watching the black man, who built the White House, shot down like dogs.
He said Obama is from Kenya, calling him a “Mau Mau.”
Nzinga said, “He need[s] to go back to his roots and stop people from killing Africans in the streets.”
Meanwhile, on the conservative end of the spectrum come the comments from Marine Lt. Bill Cowan, a Fox News analyst on terrorism.
In a speech responding to a question about whether Obama had proven his constitutional eligibility to hold the presidency, he said, “You may be right. You may be absolutely right. Is he legitimate? We don’t know. And we may not know for another 100 years. The problem is we are living in the real world.”
He said, “Even if tomorrow someone found a real legitimate birth certificate somewhere else that said he couldn’t be our president, the legal process to push that through and get him out would far exceed the rest of the time he has in office.
“We’re stuck with the guy,” he said.