Barack Hussein Obama is a symbol for hope, and a role model for up coming politicians or New Leaders who can change the way this continent is run by following his footsteps but Mr. Carson in February was pushed to explain America’s position regarding the candidacy of two politicians who are charged with crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court. He had a simple answer:
“We live in an interconnected world,” he said, “and people should be thoughtful about the impact that their choices have on their nation, on the region, on the economy, on the society and on the world in which they live. Choices have consequences.”
During Barack Obama's campaign for president and in the years following his election, many conspiracy theories have been circulated, asserting that he is not a natural-born citizen of the United States and consequently, under Article Two of the U.S. Constitution, is ineligible to be President of the United States.
Some of these theories allege that Obama's published birth certificate is a forgery—that his actual birthplace is not Hawaii but Kenya.
Barack Obama, father Hussein Obama a Luo from Nyang’oma Kogelo, Nyanza Province.In a June 2012 interview at her Kenyan home, his father's stepmother Sarah Obama was asked: "Some people want to believe that the president was born in Kenya. Have these people ever bothered you or asked for his birth certificate?" Her response was: "But Barack Obama wasn’t born in Kenya. In the interview, Obama's paternal step grandmother stated that after Barack Obama Sr. and Ann Dunham were married, she received a letter at her home in Kenya announcing the birth of Barack Obama II, who was born August 4, 1961.
President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama visited the La General Hospital in Accra, Ghana in 2009. President Barack Obama promised to visit his father's homeland of Kenya before the end of his presidency but of the 51 country visits Obama made in the last four years, America's first black president spent less than a day in sub-Saharan Africa. Obama is likely to spend more time in Africa in his second term.
Now Obama is skiping his father land Kenya and will visit Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania few Kilometers away from Kenya .
Both Clinton and President George W. Bush took extended trips through Africa in their second terms. Clinton visited six countries in sub-Saharan Africa; Bush visited five. Obama's only visit to sub-Saharan Africa as president was a stopover of less than 24 hours in Ghana. While a U.S. Senator, Obama visited Ethiopia and Kenya, where he has several relatives.
And then there's the promise Obama made: "I'm positive that before my service as president is completed I will visit Kenya again," Obama said in a June 2010 interview with Kenya's state broadcaster.
sidents do take special pleasure in traveling to places where they have ancestral ties," Doherty said, noting visits by Presidents Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and even Obama to Ireland, where each had family ties. "Given the large role that Africa plays in the family history of President Obama, I'd be really surprised if he didn't travel there in the second term."
It' certainly the case that presidents of both parties in America spend more time in countries that have long traditions of clean democratic elections,I would not be surprised if the aftermath of the Kenyan elections in 2007 and ICC case added to the president's team's hesitance to send him to Kenya."
See video clip how Kenyans feel about Obama second trip to Africa
"He is a Kenyan who many people want to see in person. I am proud that he is a Kenyan and that he is the president of a superpower," said Sam Ochieng, a political leader in Nairobi's largest slum, Kibera.Obama's lack of time in Africa reflects compelling global priorities, not a lack of importance for Africa.
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