Obama's African Kin Wonder: "Where's the Money?"

From Boston.com:

KOGELO, Kenya - After Barack Obama was elected to the US Senate in 2004, a delegation from the remote African village where his father was raised journeyed to Washington, seeking financial help. But Obama offered them advice, not money.

Now that Obama has moved to the White House, expectations of financial benefit have grown even greater in this tiny hamlet where water is still delivered to thatched huts on the backs of donkeys.

“There are still those who are waiting for him to send millions,’’ said Nicholas Rajula, a Kogelo businessman.

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Dreams alone seem to be sustaining those counting on an economic boom in this rural corner of western Kenya, near Lake Victoria, where the American president’s father - also named Barack Obama - grew up and where many of his relatives remain.

Dreams are the currency here? You mean it isn't Hope?

In Kogelo, the village where Barack Sr. was raised, there is no restaurant or post office to speak of. Two hours from the nearest city, it is not on most maps.

What? No government services? No Barackracy? That just won't do!!!!

Some relatives have also set up foundations, trying to raise money for development projects using the Obama name. And strangers are suddenly a common sight in the market, attracted by safari companies...

This may be your chance to bag your very own Obama, folks.

A tourist hotel is planned.

So let me get this straight... There's no water, and its a community of thatched huts but they're actually talking about building a hotel???? I repeat: AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

But what is missing is a direct infusion of cash from Obama or the US government, say local residents and members of the extended Obama family, some of whom say they have relayed funding requests through e-mails and letters to Washington.

The only way these cats are going to get any money from old Unca Barack is if he taxes the American people for it. He' s not going to give a dime out of his own pocket, even though a dime would probably go quite a long way in this little village.

The story goes on, but I don't have the heart to relay it. It's about more Kenyans wondering why the cash from Barack hasn't come pouring in yet.