Hey, it's a legitimate inquiry! It's at least as legitimate as any question Mewl Gingrich (born Newton Leroy McPherson, jr.) raises about Obama. Using Newt logic, Abraham Lincoln in his lifetime made almost as many visits to Kenya as President Obama has. In addition, after moving about in their early lives both Lincoln and Obama eventually settled in Illinois. You can LOOK IT UP ON THE INTERTUBES. And, you know, we can't be sure that Mr. Lincoln did not have relatives on the Dark Continent somewhere. Mr. Lincoln never mentioned any. Nor, did any of his family. But, they never said he did not have any out that way either.
Finally, no one can find a copy of Mr. Lincoln's birth certificate. Oh, there's some piddling stuff about birth certificates not having been invented yet; but, that is obviously some retro-socialist government conspiracy to suppress the truth.
To be fair and balanced, it is true that Mr. Lincoln's earlier speeches and writings evinced an attitude which was, while not exactly hostile to the Negro, certainly properly Republican. But, Mr. Lincoln eventually formed a close bond of friendship and respect with Frederick Douglass AND issued the Emancipation Proclamation. If that isn't the darkest kind of Kenyan Anti-Colonial evidence, what is?
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