stephanie
06-06-2008, 11:26 AM
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By Daniel Wallis
Reuters
Friday, June 6, 2008; 10:55 AM
NAIROBI (Reuters) - A group of young Kenyans supporting Barack Obama launched what they called a worldwide campaign on Friday to defend the likely U.S. Democratic presidential nominee from smears by opponents.
Obama, whose late father was from Kenya, made history on Tuesday when he became the first African-American to win a U.S. major-party presidential nomination. The Illinois senator will face Republican John McCain at the general election in November.
Peter Mbae of Sen. Barack Obama Worldwide Supporters said the new network would organize online forums, public meetings and demonstrations to raise awareness of Obama's policies.
"We're going to march in all the major (Kenyan) towns, and then in all the African cities," he told reporters in Nairobi.
"Then we reach the whole world. It's very easy because it's a global village, and we can do things the technological way."
read the rest.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/06/AR2008060601743.html
By Daniel Wallis
Reuters
Friday, June 6, 2008; 10:55 AM
NAIROBI (Reuters) - A group of young Kenyans supporting Barack Obama launched what they called a worldwide campaign on Friday to defend the likely U.S. Democratic presidential nominee from smears by opponents.
Obama, whose late father was from Kenya, made history on Tuesday when he became the first African-American to win a U.S. major-party presidential nomination. The Illinois senator will face Republican John McCain at the general election in November.
Peter Mbae of Sen. Barack Obama Worldwide Supporters said the new network would organize online forums, public meetings and demonstrations to raise awareness of Obama's policies.
"We're going to march in all the major (Kenyan) towns, and then in all the African cities," he told reporters in Nairobi.
"Then we reach the whole world. It's very easy because it's a global village, and we can do things the technological way."
read the rest.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/06/AR2008060601743.html