“Nobody thinks that Bush and McCain have a real answer to the challenges we face. What they’re going to try to do is make you scared of me. You know: ‘He’s not patriotic enough. He’s got a funny name. You know, he doesn’t look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills.’ “
Barack Obama, July 2008
Sold by a street hawker at Westlands roundabout, Nairobi, November 2008


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December 2, 2008 at 9:05 am
Yes we can still make money out of Obama « Things Seen and Heard…
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