02.27.07 6:00 AM CST
• Politics
• Stephen Randall
It's not just Hollywood showering Barack Obama with cash. There’s also a move afoot in Kenya, a country poor enough that David Geffen could probably buy it, to raise money for the candidate many Kenyans call their “son.” Shashank Bengali, who covers Africa for the McClatchy Newspapers, writes in his blog that what makes this unusual is that Obama is pro-gay rights and pro-abortion, two issues most Kenyans squarely oppose. There’s other great stuff in Shashank in Africa, by the way, which chronicles the correspondent’s daily life and social interactions, the type of information that rarely makes the newspapers.
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