White house extended an invitation to Kenya,to send a dignitary to an African leaders luncheon,to be hosted by Obama.
Ignoring the writting on the wall,or is it naivety,Kenya send Raila who apparently Obama has no time for.
What did we get out of te bungled opportunity,a 'disinvite'.
The message was that we should have send a leader that Obama can stand.
Forget the insinuation that the White house erred in inviting Kenya in the first place,it has all to to with our choice of dignitary.
It is not about wholesale condemnation of Kenyans.
Rather,Obama wont host those with blood of Kenyans' on their palms.
Obama knows this first hand.
Remember in early 2008,he took time off his presidential campaigns to call Raila to ask him to talk to President Kibaki in order to end the prevailing savage blood letting.
Raila ignored the call,and continued his grandstanding,unperturbed that lives continued to be lost,while he demanded that an international Mediator acceptable to him comes to negotiate him into Goverment!!!!
Kofi came much later and did just that.
Obama was smitten,as he painfully understood Raila for who he is.
You expect him to share a table with such characters!!!
Obama's memory isnt as that of Kenyan cheerleaders.
Just look at the wide berth he has given him since then.
Things arent always the way they look like
Isuni yilu yi maa me muyo - ni Mbisuu