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Someone! Please!

We all saw this "I saw with my own two skeptical eyes last Thursday the enormous patience and trust that the people of Kenya were willing to invest in the democratic process? I was there myself, going from polling station to polling station, to record this moment, this ridiculously awesome expression of the popular will. I saw them: the grandmothers and the dreadlocked young men, the mothers with children strapped to their backs, the guy in the wheelchair, the wide-eyes schoolkids watching their elder brothers and sisters exercise their constitutional rights. I saw them, and rejoiced..." we did, did we not, just to get this "the sheer bare-faced effrontery of fraud meant to thwart the popular will and carried out in naked defiance of international observers and Kenyan media" we were all sitting infront of the TV, with our mouths wide open, tears streaming down our eyes as " Kikuyus think we are about, saying complacently that “we” won the election when even Eur...