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(U.S. President Barack Obama is hugged by his half-sister Auma Obama)
By JULIE PACE
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) Fulfilling the hopes of millions of Kenyans, Barack Obama returned to his father's homeland Friday for the first time as U.S. president, a long sought visit by a country that considers him a local son.
The president spent the evening reuniting with his Kenyan family, including his elderly step-grandmother who made the trip to the capital of Nairobi from her rural village. U.S. and Kenyan flags lined the main road from Nairobi's airport, and billboards heralding Obama's trip dotted the city.
"I don't think that Kenyans think of Obama as African-American. They think of him as Kenyan-American," said EJ Hogendoorn, deputy program director for Africa at the International Crisis Group.
Obama's link to Kenya is a father he barely knew, but whose influence can nonetheless be seen in his son's presidency.
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AllFieldsRequired
(489 posts)of the factually challenged today.
monmouth4
(9,710 posts)Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)demosincebirth
(12,543 posts)Hekate
(90,827 posts)Rec
artislife
(9,497 posts)But I bet they all are ready to get back to a kind of normalcy. How much grace they all have shown. I am partial to little Sasha.
MBS
(9,688 posts)Solly Mack
(90,787 posts)I love that picture. Beautiful, just beautiful.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)DawgHouse
(4,019 posts)I can't imagine how proud they must be of him.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)fox snoozers and their agitators into RW racist conniption fits. He is a great POTUS in spite of the compromises he has had to make. Greater than any RWer in the last generation and Clinton the bill.
kydo
(2,679 posts)We really don't deserve him. But I thank God every day that he his our President. Obama will go down as one of our best Presidents.
Boomerproud
(7,964 posts)The train wreck that will commence on January 20, 2017 is what this country is headed for-tragic that we who are paying attention have to endure it along with the haters, crazies and know-nothings.
allan01
(1,950 posts)Historic NY
(37,453 posts)now Kenya is off the hook. I can imagine the birthers are going crazy tonight here in the US.
Demonaut
(8,927 posts)not that it makes a bit of difference in his eligibility to be POTUS