Ladies and Gentlemen,

In all honesty, Pat Robertson with other special interest groups are making life for President Obama unbareable. They have resolved to make life for President Obama extremely very difficult that they resolved to block all his policies so that Reform Recovery should fail and that, they want their Country back. They have refused to join with Obama even with constant call from Obama to come together to work as a team to fix things, They decided to block Obama all through the way. They want President Obama to fail in all his agenda including that of Foreign Policy Partnership for Development.

Before President Obama took office, the Republicans ruled for 8 years and left the Office in very bad shape which caused Economic Meltdown. When Obama took Office, he has struggled since then without the Special Interest support to help him fix the broken peaces and to steady the economy from collapse. President Obama and a few other Democrats struggled to secure the Country from total collapse to a manageable level while surrounded by two International Wars as well with serious National Disasters/Calamities that which could not be avoided.

I feel I should bring this case to the open for common mwanainchi to look at both sides of the coin critically to have a judgemental mind. It is a choice between moving Forward or Backwards, considering, the Republican Special Interest groups have nothing tangible to offer (except bribery to the Religious Leaders) other than promote corruption and the spilling of blood to gain valuable from Natural Resources and Land through corrupt deals while living Kenya/Africans to continue to soil in EXTREME POVERTY. When President Obama has an offer for Partnership Development to promote African value to meet challenges of the Global Market where poverty will be a thing of the past. The Prescription balance here are such that, those of the Special Interest Republican Group headed by Pat Robertson are to continue to bring Kenya and Africa BACKWARDS, while those Foreign Police for Partnership for Obama are to move Kenya/Africa FORWARD. Which one will you choose?

As a matter of concern, I feel that those Religious Leaders have let Kenya and Kenyans down. They choose to ashame thewhole AFRICAN CONTINENT for the crave of money and denied our only Blessed son, The African Pearl and a Hero. Which God are these Church Leaders worshiping. Are we on the right path serving the true God or we have lost our ways in following these Religious Leaders. The True God will not let us trash our own for the love of Blood Money.

President Obama is Our Sunshine, He is our lamp on the HillTop. I will stand by him and support his Agenda for Reform for Recovery in the US as well as those of Foreign Policy even with “Oluth Kuon”.

We Love President Obama and May God continue to Bless and Protect him and his family so he can endure forces that hate him or harm him. May God give him strength so he continue to focus in the Mission ahead of him for the Good of God’s people.

Thank you President Kibaki for taking that major step to leave a legacy and to save your people from death bed of poverty, may God Bless and Keep you well. You have taken a step to save many souls from perishing. May our God have favour fro you and your family.

God Bless you all and may he provide you all with a discerning favour and wisdom.

Best Regards,

Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com

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“Yes” campaigns in Meru

standardgroupkenya | July 10, 2010
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As the President is aware that a lot of Corrupted foreign monies is involved in the NO campaigns ..But the President & P.M. are AFRAID to touch the Churches because a lot of Churches all over the? World are financed by Exteremists Foreign NGOs

Kibaki says foreigners funding the ‘No’ team

By Standard Team

President Kibaki has accused the opponents of the Proposed Constitution of receiving funds from foreigners to disparage the document.
The President, speaking at a ‘Yes’ rally in Meru, dispelled fears that there was a likelihood of violence after the August referendum. He warned inciters that they would be dealt with firmly.

Vice-President Kalonzo Musyoka, Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta and several Cabinet ministers and MPs accompanied the President.

Kibaki dismissed the view that if passed, the new constitution would render the Provincial Administration jobless as “pure lies by misguided people.”

“We know some of these people have been given money by foreigners to rock their own country. Why should you use money given by people outside the country to peddle lies?” posed the President at Kinoru Stadium.

This is the first time that the President is launching a direct attack on the ‘No’ proponents in the referendum campaigns.

During his earlier public meetings, Kibaki has always called for tolerance among people with different views on the constitution. On Saturday, the President said Kenyans should be allowed to vote with their conscience during the August referendum.

But he also reiterated the need for Kenyans to embrace each other despite political differences, saying the country was more important than individuals.

Other leaders present during the rally were Cabinet ministers Anyang’ Nyong’o, Kiraitu Murungi, George Saitoti, Amos Kimunya and Fred Gumo.

US Congressman to probe on ‘No’ camp funding

By David Ochami

A visiting US Congressman says he will seek investigation of Republican and rightwing Christians funding the ‘No’ camp.

Rhode Island’s Patrick Kennedy argues Kenya’s fundamentalist Christians have successfully harnessed the US rightwing to their agenda through a campaign of misinformation and half-truths.

“The moral outrage of the Church should be on infant mortality occurring from preventable causes and poverty,” Kennedy said.

The nephew of slain US President JF Kennedy says he will write to the Congress Oversight Committee next week seeking a full disclosure of groups funding opponents of Kenya’s Proposed Constitution and amount of money donated.

“We will write to the Committee on Oversight to ask for a hearing on all money donated to the ‘No’ campaign,” he said and added that about $250,000 has been disbursed to the ‘No’ coffers.

He added: “We will seek a subpoena to bring in folks involved. We need to know who they are.”

And Minnesota’s Keith Ellison, also visiting Kenya, says he will support such hearings. Elison is the first Muslim to be elected to Congress.

Kennedy’s disclosure in Nairobi on Friday comes amid reports that Republican opponents of President Barack Obama intend to introduce a Motion in the House of Representatives, to censure the US President for allegedly supporting the proposed charter, which fundamentalist Christians allege supports abortion.

The congressman added that Republicans hope to use the divisive issue of abortion “to make the President look bad.”

“Abortion is extremely polarising in America and opponents of President Obama are using it to attack the President,” Ellison said on Friday.

They said if Kenyan Christian clergy are pro-life, they ought to support the proposed laws because the biggest threat to life is lack of clean water and other basic amenities.

US lawmakers in Kenya

A group of US congressmen has been visiting our country this past week where they held various meetings with political players. They went as far as any other US official has gone to back the enactment of the proposed constitution.
Unknown to many Kenyans, there is a sideshow to the big local fight for the draft law that is playing itself out in Washington DC. You hear about it intermittently from reports that certain congressmen sitting on the Africa sub-committee of the US House of Representative’s Committee on Foreign Affairs have been lambasting the Obama administration for supporting a Kenyan draft law that “legalises” abortion (the monopoly for untruths is by no means confined to Kenyan provocateurs).

And there are the scattered reports of US-based evangelical churches allegedly funding their Kenyan counterparts on the ‘No’ side. The most vocal US politician concerning our draft law is New Jersey congressman Chris Smith, the top Republican on the Africa sub-committee.

It so happens that virtually all the US politicians busy trashing our draft constitution are Republicans.

In this campaign abortion is just an excuse. In fact, I doubt very much if they care a hoot about the draft constitution, which they most likely have not read.

They are driven purely by domestic US politics. For them, the Kenyan battle over a new constitution has opened another useful front in their deadly political war against Obama.
A defeat for the ‘Yes’ side in the referendum will come in handy for the Republicans. It will embarrass the Obama administration, which is correctly perceived to be in support of the new constitution.

Obama’s family connection to Kenya has certainly not escaped the Republicans, which is why fighting him right here matters considerably to them.

I doubt they would care if it were a place like Gabon or Brunei holding a referendum. They badly want to politically wound him on “home ground,” so to speak.

It’s hard to believe it, but there is a fringe movement in America that still claims Obama was born in Kenya and therefore not eligible to be president; only US-born candidates need apply.

I referred earlier to events in Kenya as a sideshow because the main battle between Obama and his right-wing enemies is being fought in America itself. The enactment earlier this year of Obama’s signature legislation, the Healthcare Bill, brought the confrontation to a head.

Other battlefronts were opened when Obama supported a trillion-dollar financial bailout for beleaguered banks and vehicle manufacturers.

It is difficult for somebody sitting in faraway Kenya to imagine the raw animosity Obama generates among rightwing Republicans.

It is no exaggeration to say that probably no other president from the Democratic Party has ever excited as much hatred from American conservatives as Obama is doing.

They have painted the man as a “socialist” because of the money he has committed for the bailouts and what is likely to be spent on healthcare reform. There are darker innuendoes to the “socialist” tag they have given Obama which the Republicans won’t say in public.

But one thing is clear: they will do anything under the sun to stop him being re-elected in 2012. And judging from the commotion they are causing, they could as well succeed.

In this crusade the Republicans are enjoying the enthusiastic support of evangelical groups. Or rather, it is the Republican politicians who are following the anti-Obama trail charted by the evangelicals.

Unlike in Kenya, these groups are particularly powerful in the US. They have become the dominant force in the Republican party and in the so-called Red states.

Moreover, they have loads of money and very well-organised grassroots structures.
Republican senators and Congressmen defy them at their own peril. Abortion is a pet peeve for these US evangelicals, and no wonder the Republicans have taken it up.

A phobia against Islam is another thing that defines the evangelicals. The confluence of these two issues in Kenya’s constitutional debate naturally explains where their sympathies — and perhaps money — are being directed.

The success of the right-wingers in the US has bred an urge to export their brand of ideology overseas; they should not be underestimated. It looks certain Obama dispatched Vice-President Joe Biden to Kenya to seek to counter the poison being spread from Washington DC about our draft law.
gwarigi@ke.nationmedia.com

US dollars fuelling Church campaig
By KEVIN J. KELLY, SUNDAY NATION Correspondent in New York
Posted Saturday, May 1 2010 at 21:00

In Summary

Washington–based anti-abortion group says it is donating ‘tens of thousands of dollars’ to help defeat Kenya’s proposed constitution
The churches say they have no foreign source of cash in their campaign against the draft law but one of them is getting ‘tens of thousands of dollars’
An American-based group opposed to abortion has said it is donating “tens of thousands of dollars” to help defeat Kenya’s proposed constitution.

The American Centre for Law and Justice’s Jordan Sekulow, told the Sunday Nation that his Washington-based organisation is working through its office in Nairobi to tell Kenyans that the draft constitution would allow “abortion on demand”.
It is the first revelation of foreign funding given to church leaders in Kenya to campaign against the draft constitution.
The American Centre for Law and Justice is a non-governmental public interest law firm founded in 1990 by the controversial televangelist Pat Robertson well-known in Kenya for his programs on the Christian Broadcast Network.
Information available on the Internet indicates the centre has an annual budget of about $14 million (about Sh1 billion).
Mr Robertson stirred up a barrage of criticism with his remarks that Haiti had “made a pact with the Devil” that earned them the earthquake that left more than 250,000 Hatians dead
in January.

Extreme right
The “deal”, according to Mr Robertson, was made by the black inhabitants of the Caribbean island nation in order to gain freedom from their French masters in 1804.
Mr Robertson and Mr Sekulow are behind the Washington-based NGO that has established a centre in Nairobi to work against the proposed draft and to develop a strategy for Christians to lobby Parliament over future law reforms.
In America they are referred to as the extreme Christian right and favour conservative social policies and very limited or no government role in the economy.
Kenyan church leaders have vowed to fell the proposed law because, in their view, it does not affirm religious freedoms and, according to their interpretation, it does not expressly outlaw abortion.
The American organisation’s outlet in Kenya is the East African Centre for Law and Justice.
A statement on the US organisation’s website on January 27 this year announced the centre’s establishment and says, “This is only the beginning. The EACLJ will be a centre that will change the landscape of legislation for all Kenyans and eventually all of East Africa’s citizens.”
It is signed by Executive Director Joy Mdivo and Bishop Mark Karuki of the Deliverance Church Kenya.
The revelations come a day after NCCK secretary-general the Rev Peter Karanja said the organisation was not receiving foreign funding to run its No campaign. The Deliverance Church is not a member of the NCCK.
Reached on Saturday evening, Bishop Kariuki told the Sunday Nation he did did not wish to comment on the donations until after he had spoken to Mr Sekulow.
Activists associated with similar groups in the United States are also shipping brochures to Kenya in an attempt to persuade voters to reject the proposed constitution because of a provision that would permit abortion when a woman’s life is in danger.
Although the Constitution guarantees the right to life, and the draft provides that life begins at conception, church leaders have vowed to fight it because of its provisions on abortion and kadhis’ courts.
They object to the section of Article 26 that empowers doctors to end a pregnancy if it endangers a woman’s life or she needs emergency treatment.
The section reads: “Abortion is not permitted unless, in the opinion of a trained health professional, there is need for emergency treatment, or the life or health of the mother is in danger, or if permitted by any other law.”
Christian leaders are also opposed to the retention of kadhis’ courts in the proposed constitution under Article 169 and 170. The courts have limited authority to arbitrate disputes over personal status, marriage, divorce or inheritance where all the parties are Muslims and agree to take the case to a kadhi.

The anti-abortion movement in the United States argues that the wording of the Kenyan draft constitution would in practice make abortion much more widely available in Kenya.
Under the Penal Code, the current Constitution permits abortion when a woman’s life is judged by a medical professional to be in danger.
The head of the New York-based Centre for Reproductive Rights has asked Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to encourage the Kenyan government “to ensure that the new constitution does not undermine access to safe and legal abortion services, which are crucial to protecting women’s basic rights”.
The same organisation issued a report in March estimating that at least 2,600 Kenyan women die each year as a result of unsafe abortions.
The Obama administration has expressed its support for the proposed constitution.
And although neither President Obama nor Secretary Clinton has spoken out directly on the issue of abortion in Kenya, both leaders do generally favour a woman’s right to terminate a pregnancy.
On April 3, 2010, the White House issued a statement supporting the progress made in search of a new constitution.
“We are encouraged by the strong statements made by President Kibaki and Prime Minister Odinga in support of the draft,” said White House press secretary Robert Gibbs.
“A unified effort to see this important reform element through can help to turn the page to a promising new chapter of Kenyan history. We urge all Kenyans to focus on the future of their nation and to unify in support of a peaceful and credible referendum and electoral process.”
But Mr Sekulow, the anti-abortion attorney in Washington, told the Sunday Nation that his organisation supports “99 per cent of what’s in the draft constitution.”

Promote stability
He said he recognises that the proposed document includes reforms intended to promote stability in Kenya.
Mr Sekulow and other anti-abortion campaigners in the United States argue that the draft should nonetheless be rejected because it does not unequivocally prohibit abortion.
In 2005, Mr Sekulow was named one of the “25 Most Influential Evangelicals” in America by Time magazine.
Jeanne Head, a New York-based official with the anti-abortion National Right-to-Life Committee, said that her organisation “is assisting friends in Kenya by sending them brochures” to be used in the referendum campaign.
Her organisation, the largest of its kind in the United States, is not supplying funding to groups in Kenya, Ms Head said.

Held forum
Mr Sekulow said his group is using donations from its supporters in the United States to fund the activities of the Nairobi-based East African Centre for Law and Justice, which was established early this year.
He added that he could not specify how much money might eventually be provided, but he said the amount so far numbers in the “tens of thousands of dollars”.
Mr Sekulow is a frequent guest on American television and is frequently quoted in the mainstream press.

According to the website, the East African satellite recently “held a consultative forum with members of various professions on the wording of the draft proposed to the Select Committee on the Constitution”.
“In conjunction with Deliverance Church, the EACLJ will be initiating a grassroots effort to bring to light the importance of the new Kenyan Constitution,” says the statement.