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“Tea party pokes fun at Obama’s rivals”–Daily Nation

Posted on April 22, 2010 by Ken
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Tea party pokes fun at Obama’s rivals

Kenyan Tea Party–a fun public relations idea for DC–just too bad that they would pick as their Kenyan headliner one of the prime reputed suspects in the current ICC investigation.

 

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