Everybody knows me as Illai Kenney but my full name is Illai-Akia Scheherazade Kenney. I am not Muslim. Illai is from the Bible meaning exhaulted/most high. Akia was the name of a Japanese friend of my grandfather’s, and Scheherazade was a woman of exceptional intelligence, wisdom and bravery that saved her own life and that of 1000 virgins by telling spellbinding tales during dark Arabian nights and thus educated a king. These are qualities that my mother wished for me and why she gave me these names. When we first went to Africa I was proud to wear African clothes and even as a young girl I understood the meaning of standing in the Door of No Return at Goree Island. So let’s examine the meaning behind Barack Hussien Obama.
Barack is of Hebrew origin, and its meaning is “flash of lightning”. In the Bible (Judges 4:6) Barack is a valiant fighting man who cooperated with the prophetess Deborah to win victory in a battle against overwhelming odds. I could stop there but the world is fixated on Hussein which is Arabic meaning good or handsome. So you see Barak was destined to be a good and handsome man that would rise like a flash of lightning to win victory in a battle against overwhelming odds.
There’s no doubt the memo about a private conversation between Senator Obama's economic adviser and Canada's Consul General mysteriously linked to the press just in time for the primaries, had an impact on the outcome in Texas and Ohio. I have to wonder if that mischievous Billy boy had a hand in the mystery. Here’s the clincher, seems the Canadian government wants to set the record straight. Both Clinton and Obama reassured Canada on trade: reports
OTTAWA (AFP) — US presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton's campaign, while rapping rival Barack Obama for telling US voters he is anti-NAFTA and saying otherwise to Canada, tried to reassure Canada too, local media said Thursday.
A top aide of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper meanwhile was identified as the likely source of an alleged leak that provoked a diplomatic fiasco involving both US Democratic presidential contenders.
Last month, Harper's chief of staff, Ian Brodie, purportedly made impromptu remarks to journalists about Clinton's US presidential bid, said Canadian reports.
The offhand comments apparently sought to downplay the potential impact on Canada of Clinton and Obama's attacks on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) during stops in the US state of Ohio.
Brodie told reporters that the Clinton campaign had called the Canadian embassy in Washington to tell officials to take her anti-NAFTA rhetoric "with a grain of salt," said local media.
Around the same time, a news agency reported that a Canadian government memo detailed a meeting between Obama's chief economic advisor Austan Goolsbee and officials from the Canadian consulate in Chicago.
The memo reportedly said Goolsbee noted Obama's attacks on NAFTA should not be taken out of context, citing fiercely protectionist sentiment in Ohio about the pact and political positioning as a motivation. Read the full story here
Hillary Clinton's campaign is looking more like Shakesphere's play "Much Ado About Nothing" each day. Her campaign tactics -from the constant innuendos to the blatant attacks on Barack Obama - clearly demonstrate that they will rely on deceit and deception as a means to an end.
WashingtonPost.com and CNN.com fact checkers did some digging to find out how Hillary Clinton stands up to her claim to have 35 years of experience. If this is what 35 years of foreign policy experience looks like, I have a suggestion. I have a list of women who have attended meetings abroad, made numerous speeches at UN Conferences, brought together coalitions of women, and traveled to over 30 different countries - I suppose they all qualify to run for President based on their "experience." Perhaps my list should be considered for the VP slots available.
According to CNN, "In some cases, CNN found a lack of clarity on her real involvement in foreign policy affairs."
Clinton stated on CNN's American Morning on Wednesday, "I helped to bring peace to Northern Ireland," but the "The Fact Checker" by Michael Dobbs at the Washington Post wrote:The Facts
It is true that Hillary visited Northern Ireland more times than Bill. By my count, she went there six times between 1995 and 2000, while he went four times. But she accompanied her husband as first lady on those four occasions, so they were hardly "independent" visits. (She would sometimes fly in a day early to give a lecture.) She made two visits by herself to the province, in May 1999, when she was the keynote speaker to a women's conference, and a 12-hour trip in October 1997, when she gave a lecture at the University of Ulster.
...Hillary is making a lot more of her Northern Ireland role on the campaign trail than she did in her memoir "Living History." As the Boston Globe recently noted, her stories of bringing Protestant and Catholic women together have become more dramatic with each retelling. The claim that she brought Catholics and Protestants together "for the first time" seems dubious. This would not be the first time that she has mixed up her chronology...
The Pinocchio Test
Hillary Clinton seems to be overstating her significance as a catalyst in the Northern Ireland peace process, which was more symbolic than substantive. Read the article here From CNN.com
Kosovo
"I negotiated open borders to let fleeing refugees into safety from Kosovo," she (Clinton) said on CNN's American Morning.
[FACT]
In May of 1999, she was in Macedonia visiting refugee camps near the Kosovo border and meeting with Macedonia's president and prime minister.
Sources with knowledge of her visit say she discussed the refugees' plight with those leaders. It's not clear how much she helped since CNN reported at the time that Macedonia reopened its border to Kosovar refugees before Clinton's visit....
China
"I've been standing up against, you know, the Chinese government over women's rights and standing up for human rights in many different places," she (Clinton) said on CNN's American Morning.
[FACT]
During a 1995 visit to Beijing, at a time when her husband's administration was trying to press China on human rights, Sen. Clinton made a speech condemning abuses. Read it here CNN noted in the article that a "former National Security Council official in the Clinton administration says Clinton didn't attend NSC meetings."
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