(The Cable) -- The itinerary for President Barack Obama's upcoming trip to Africa is coming under fire for one country not on it: Kenya, the birthplace of .... um.... his father.



http://redflagnews.com/headlines/report-kenyans-rage-as-obama-skips-fathers-homeland-on-africa-trip

In a conference call on Friday, Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications Ben Rhodes told reporters that the president still has a "deep, personal, familial connection to Kenya," but "it just wasn't the best time for the president to travel to Kenya." Part of that bad timing is likely due to the March election of Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta who happens to face crimes against humanity charges at the International Criminal Court, a process the the U.S. supports.

But don't tell the Kenyans, who've been sounding off about the perceived snub on Twitter and to the local press.

"We elected our president and whether the ICC comes or goes he is our president. We have already seen what is happening to the ICC case," a Kenyan teacher told local news outlet Capital News.

"A time will come when he (Obama) will need Kenya and he needs to remember that Kenyans' lives were still going on even before he took over office from George Bush," Kenyan Mavado Ondivo told the local outlet.

Meanwhile, the Kenyan hashtag #WhyObamaWillSkipKenya has erupted on Twitter. Read more via Foreign Policy...

snubbing his Homeland?

You would think he would wanna go buy some drugs from his brother..............

Apparently some people are making a mountain out of a Kenyan mole hill.

I think its an ant hill.

He's probably worried his own people will take him out! After all, that's a lot of past "absentee voters" he's snubbing there!

I think it is a termite hill.

No, just a compost pile....

Actually, I think Obozo may be looking for a place to hide rather than on any diplomatic mission..... and there's extradition from Hawaii where he's buying his $6M home for retirement that we get to pay for..... that he may not get to enjoy if his fraud falls apart, or the world court wants his war criminal arse......

He's staying as far as he can from DC right now it seems.....

It's funny to think that it may be Obozo rather than Snowden on the run....

And Kenya doesn't want him back either! Hard to go home a failure....

yes, each group wants to be the one he gives special attention to,,,,one trip does not a life make or break,,,

I still think he looks an awful lot like MalcomX

All Presidents usually travel, where they want to travel.


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