To honor Obama's commitment.

It seems that Barack Obama made a promise to the folks in his ancestral village back in Kenya.

He would help them support their school, which was in need of financial assistance to stay open and educate the children.

They named the school after him.

He did absolutely nothing to fulfill his pledge.

Barack Obama, the Evening Standard can reveal, after we went to the village earlier this month, has failed to honour the pledges of assistance that he made to a school named in his honour when he visited here amid great fanfare two years ago.

At that historic homecoming in August 2006 Obama was greeted as a hero with thousands lining the dirt streets of Kogelo. He visited the Senator Obama Kogelo Secondary School built on land donated by his paternal grandfather. After addressing the pupils, a third of whom are orphans, and dancing with them as they sang songs in his honour, he was shown a school with four dilapidated classrooms that lacked even basic resources such as water, sanitation and electricity.

He told the assembled press, local politicians (who included current Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga), and students: "Hopefully I can provide some assistance in the future to this school and all that it can be." He then turned to the school's principal, Yuanita Obiero, and assured her and her teachers: "I know you are working very hard and struggling to bring up this school, but I have said I will assist the school and I will do so."

Following his promise, the school officials made an ambitions proposal to improve the school they had renamed in Obama's honor, totaling some $125,000. However, according to the school's principal, "Senator Obama has not honoured the promises he gave me when we met in 2006 and in his earlier letter to the school. He has not given us even one shilling."

It seems that he gave his African relatives and their neighbors hope that there might be some change in the education of their children -- and yet his empty promises have come to absolutely nothing as he pimps his African heritage in his presidential campaign and best-selling books. I guess that all of it is just words, just speeches.

But conservative blogger Baldilocks (whose life and ancestry intersects with Obama's in a very interesting way) has been moved to take action to actually do what what liberal politician Barack Obama won't -- honor the commitment made by Barack Obama to improve the lives of one African village that honored him. She has established Save Senator Obama Kogelo School, Inc., a non-profit intended to keep Senator Obama's promise since he apparently has no intention of doing so.

I whole-heartedly endorse this effort, and consider it a matter of honor on behalf of the United States. While Barack Obama puts his naked ambition first, we bitter, fearful, xenophobic Americans who reflexively cling to our religion and guns need to put the children of village of Kogelo, Kenya first on his behalf. And for the record, she has graciously indicated that she will welcome donations from liberals, including supporters of Senator Obama. Who knows -- maybe Senator and Mrs. Obama might feel moved to support the effort.

To support this worthy effort, click here.

H/T Gateway Pundit

UPDATE: New allies to the cause -- Michelle Malkin, The Other McCain, Stuck On Stupid (twice)

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