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Anatomy of a Failed Presidency!

An article from “American Thinker” by Dr. Geoffrey P. Hunt

Barack Obama is on track to have the most spectacularly failed presidency since Woodrow Wilson.  In the modern era, we’ve seen several failed presidencies–led by Jimmy Carter and LBJ.  Failed presidents have one strong common trait– they are repudiated, in the vernacular, spat out.
Of course, LBJ wisely took the exit ramp early, avoiding a shove into oncoming traffic by his own party.  Richard Nixon indeed resigned in disgrace, yet his reputation as a statesman has been partially restored by his triumphant overture to China.

But, Barack Obama is failing.  Failing big.  Failing fast. And failing everywhere: foreign policy, domestic initiatives, and most importantly, in forging connections with the American people. The incomparable Dorothy  Rabinowitz in the Wall Street Journal put her finger on it: He is failing because he has no understanding of the American people, and may indeed loathe them. Fred Barnes of the Weekly Standard says he is failing because he has lost control of his message, and is overexposed.  Clarice Feldman of American Thinker produced a dispositive commentary showing that Obama is failing because fundamentally he is neither smart nor articulate; his intellectual dishonesty is conspicuous by its audacity and lack of shame.
But, there is something more seriously wrong: How could a new president riding in on a wave of precedented promise and goodwill have forfeited his tenure and become a lame duck in six months?  His poll ratings are in free fall.  In generic balloting, the Republicans have now seized a five point advantage.  This truly is unbelievable.  What’s going on?

Obama Bows to Emperor, First to Break Protocol in U.S. History

[webmaster: Would someone please help Obama to keep his head up. It's disgusting.]
Sunday, November 15, 2009 11:14 PM By: Daniel Ruddy

President Obama created a new presidential precedent when he bowed to the Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko Saturday.

No president of the United States in the more than 230 years since the country was founded in 1776 had ever bowed to a member of royalty. That was until Barack Obama’s presidency.

In April, President Obama bowed to the Saudi king during the G-20 meeting. At the time, Obama’s deferential bow was somewhat obscured, and the White House insisted that the president simply had leaned forward to shake the king’s hand.

But the president’s recent demonstration of royal deference to the Japanese emperor and empress suggests his earlier action was no aberration.

What should we make of this? Is it trivial to worry about what on its face could easily be interpreted as nothing more than a polite gesture by our president to respect the culture of a country?

Expose Obama & ObamaCare

(c) 2009 ExposeObama
Make no mistake about it: the chaotic situation Gratzer describes in Canada is exactly the one that awaits you and your family if Obama and his political soul mates have their way.

It’s up to use to stop them.

When you told Barack Hussein Obama and Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid that the American people wanted no part of their health care schemes… they tried to shove it down your throat.

Without even bothering to read the legislation, liberals in Congress twisted arms, called secret meetings, made deals and frantically dashed to sneak ObamaCare past you before leaving on vacation.

But then… to add insult to injury… even after you caught them red-handed… they had the audacity to tell the American people that they want the time to go home and regroup so they can hit us again when they come back into session.

They essentially said, let us go back home and make some more deals… have some more secret meetings… twist some more arms… and we promise, we’ll come back in a month with a version of ObamaCare that you’ll really like.

They must think the American people are fools.

Of course… they probably still won’t bother to actually read the legislation… and it would come as no great shock if they tried to sneak it past again once they rolled back into town.

That’s why we need to send a message to Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama… and we need to send it now.

When it comes to ObamaCare… The American people don’t want your Retreat… The American people want your Defeat.

The American people don’t want your so-called health care legislation delayed… the American people want it gone.

The American people didn’t ask you to regroup just so you can could back and hit us again. We’re not going to give you a single solitary inch or let you take a breath. We’re going to press you… we’re going to press our advantage… right here and right now.

Starting today, you will come to know that your attempts to transform America into a socialist country are over. The madness ends… now.

Today is the day you start losing and the American people start winning.

With your help, that’s the message we’re going to send right now.
ObamaCare: Is It The American Dream Or An American Nightmare?

During on of his press conferences, Barack Obama actually had the nerve to blame Republicans for blocking his bizarre health proposals.

Can you imagine that?  Democrats have majorities in the House and Senate, but Obama blames the GOP. Disingenuous? Or just plain dishonest – take your pick.

Obama’s health agenda is in trouble because the American people – that’s you – think it’s too expensive, too restrictive, too much about politics… and too little about improving people’s health and extending their lives.

The head of the Congressional Budget Office, Douglas W. Elmendorf, rained heavily on Obama’s parade. He said the proposal legislation would not reduce costs… and that it would sharply increase costs.

The secret is out: the sham health care proposals Barack Obama and his congressional cronies are peddling will bankrupt our nation, force you into an inferior government-run health plan, and endanger your family’s lives and health.

Remember what Obama said in assuring you about your private health insurance and physician choices under ObamaCare?

"If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period. If you like your health care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health care plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what."

When Obama said that, his nose presumably grew faster than Pinocchio’s.

Obama has the disturbing habit of feigning ignorance. And true to form, he did it when confronted with the scary words on page 16 of the proposed so-called health care legislation:

“Except as provided in this paragraph, the individual health insurance issuer offering such coverage does not enroll any individual in such coverage if the first effective date of coverage is on or after the first day of Y [Year 1].”

That congressional gobbledygook basically means you’ll lose your private insurance – forever – if you change jobs… or your insurer modifies the plan… or if your employer tries either to change insurers or stop offering coverage altogether.

Of course, it also means it would be prohibitive for new private insurers to enter the game. And it means the private insurers now in business can never grow. It means the private insurers will simply fade into history.

So, if you now have a plan that’s the equivalent of sailing first-class, the government will use its power to shove you and your family down below deck into steerage – where you can join the teeming masses stuck with the so-called “public option.”

Here’s a quick description of what health care would be like under that public option: imagine if obtaining essential medical treatment was like going down to the DMV, getting in an endless line, and waiting there… essentially forever. That’s “change” nobody can believe in.

ObamaCare will turn the American Dream into the American Nightmare. We can’t let it happen.
Health Care “Reform” … or Something Much More Ominous?

Do any of the leftist scams masquerading as health care proposals really have anything to do with improving health care?

No more than the government takeover of the banks… and AIG… and General Motors had to do with improving banking, insurance, and the automotive industry

As Mark Levin told his fellow radio-talk show host Sean Hannity; Obama is seeking “a massive transfer of liberty and property from the American people to the government.”

Former Texas Congressman Dick Armey told Fox News that the Democrats’ health care proposals are not about better care… not about greater access to care… and not about lower health care costs.

Instead, Armey said the liberals are involved in a power grab, seeking control over one-sixth of our country’s economy.

What on earth is Obama really up to? Is he merely trying to tear down our America… and build a new one more to the liking of the radical left?

Apparently, he was dead serious when he bad-mouthed the United States all over the world. And seizing health care is only the next step in his relentless march to socialism.

Perhaps the key question is: Do they – Obama and his fellow Marxists - really want to destroy private insurance and private health care in America?

If you believe the answer to that is no, please read the following from the proposed health care legislation:

"The [Health] Commissioner shall establish a grace period whereby, for plan years beginning after the end of the 5-year period beginning with Y1, an employment-based health plan in operation as of the day before the first day of Y1 must meet the same requirements as apply to a qualified health benefits plan under section 101, including the essential benefit package requirement under section 121."

Translating this into English, it means all private health plans in America must be comparable to the government’s public option. Most experts believe that, after a few years, private insurance would have gone the way of buckboards, spittoons, and corsets.

After five years, your private insurance plan - if it still exists - would be indistinguishable from the public option.

Frankly, it’s now or never for us to stand up to the leftists, academic pinheads, and self-important “czars” who are playing Russian Roulette with our economy, our freedom, and our health.

Use the button below to send your urgent and personalized Blast Faxes to Barack Hussein Obama and each and every leader of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives.

Tell them the proposed health care legislation now boiling like a witch’s brew in Congress is a monument to deceit and political cynicism, a recipe for rationing, human suffering, and medical mediocrity. Tell them that the American people want freedom of choice. Tell them that a government-run system will bankrupt our nation and harm its people. And finally, tell them that the American people do not want ObamaCare delayed. We want ObamaCare killed and buried so deep that it can never again rear its ugly head.

Obama’s Real Goal: A Socialistic Single-Payer System…

It’s now clear that all the rhetoric about “public options” and the like is obviously a smokescreen for Barack Obama’s real goal: to establish a European and Canadian socialist “single-payer” system.

That’s where the single-payer is supposedly the government, but is actually the taxpayer – that’s, you. But even though you’re the one who pays, the government takes control over every detail of the care you get – and more often, don’t get.

Every time you take a Tylenol or get a wart excised, some far-away bureaucrat will have determined whether you really have a headache… or if the growth is unsightly enough to justify removal.

George Will brilliantly analyzed Obama’s real intentions in a Washington Post Op Ed:

“The puzzle is: Why does the president, who says that were America ’starting from scratch’ he would favor a "single-payer" - government-run - system, insist that health-care reform include a government insurance plan that competes with private insurers? The simplest answer is that such a plan will lead to a single-payer system.

“Conservatives say that a government program will have the intended consequence of crowding private insurers out of the market, encouraging employers to stop providing coverage and luring employees from private insurance to the cheaper government option.”

How would that affect the overwhelming majority of people who are happy with their private insurance plans?

Will notes:

“The Lewin Group estimates that 70 percent of the 172 million persons privately covered might be drawn, or pushed, to the government plan. A significant portion of the children who have enrolled in the State Children’s Health Insurance Program since eligibility requirements were relaxed in February had private insurance. “

The raw, unchecked power of government – the kind that allows it to fire CEOs of private companies and dictate compensation – would remove any trace of a level playing field… and drive your insurance company out of business.

Once again, George Will hits the nail on the head:

“Government is incapable of behaving like market-disciplined private insurers. Competition from the public option must be unfair because government does not need to make a profit and has enormous pricing and negotiating powers.”

It’s absolutely critical to stop Big Government’s relentless – and mindless – effort to bulldoze a health system that has served our nation so well.

Obama’s Fanatical Effort to Canadianize Our Health System…

Of course, we’ve been told for years that the best single-payer system in our hemisphere is Canada’s.

And many believed it until we started hearing the horror stories.

Invariably, these stories deal with people, often women, who were not near enough to death – or unbearable agony – to qualify for care in Canada.

Many of the Canadian we see telling their stories wouldn’t be alive if they hadn’t been able to pay for needed care across the border… in the United States.

Why does Canada, like its counterparts in Europe, ration care? They do so for the same reason ObamaCare will practice rationing: not enough doctors, not enough hospitals, and not enough money to service the hordes seeking care from good old Uncle Sam.

The bad news is that this health care would not really be government-provided… you’d pay for it with your hard-earned tax dollars. The really bad news is that it probably wouldn’t be available when you needed it the most anyway.

Listen to Dr. David Gratzer, a Canadian-trained physician now practicing in the United States:

“I trained in emergency rooms that were chronically, dangerously overcrowded… all across Canada. I met a middle-aged man with sleep problems who was booked for an appointment with a specialist . . . three years later; a man with pain following a simple hernia repair who was referred to a pain clinic . . . with a two-year wait list; a woman with breast cancer who was asked to wait four more months . . . before starting the lifesaving radiation therapy.”

Gratzer continues:

“According to the government’s own statistics, some 1.2 million Canadians could not get a family doctor. In some rural areas, town councils resorted to lotteries: the winners would get appointments with the only general practitioners around.”

Make no mistake about it: the chaotic situation Gratzer describes in Canada is exactly the one that awaits you and your family if Obama and his political soul mates have their way.

It’s up to use to stop them.

Obama speaks streams of vomit

This is a special report to the people and governments of the world. Obama DOES NOT represent the people of the United States. He is part of a small elite group of politicians and money mongers that are trying to control the world. He is a liar and a fraud. He has hidden his past and refuses to reveal who he really is. Do not believe anything he says. He will lie to make it convenient for himself and his groupees.

If you are Muslim and like his recent speech then please make him a citizen of your country and keep him there. He is one of you. He is not one of us. He has only one goal and that is to take over the world as a one world government. He will do it by lying and saying whatever is necessary.

He is like a 3 year old child that has no ability except to lie. His wife is the same way. No not believe either one of them. His ability to run the government of the United States is non-existent. He has no idea what he is going and neither does his buddies from Harvard. They are just playing games with the American people. His entire cabinet and officials are made up of criminals and crooks.

The American people are fed up with his life, attitude, and record. If he is allowed to continue on the path he is on then he will intentionally destroy the United States. Osama bin Laden will be proud of him. The American people will remove him from office and he will be remembered as a bad taste from a bad hangover.

(c) copyright 2009 Ray Holt

From Russia … America, you are losing it.

American capitalism gone with a whimper . . . . .

It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.

True, the situation has been well prepared on and off for the past century, especially the past twenty years. The initial testing grounds was conducted upon our Holy Russia and a bloody test it was. But we Russians would not just roll over and give up our freedoms and our souls, no matter how much money Wall Street poured into the fists of the Marxists.

Those lessons were taken and used to properly prepare the American populace for the surrender of their freedoms and souls, to the whims of their elites and betters.

First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture, rather than the classics. Americans know more about their favorite TV dramas than the drama in DC that directly affects their lives. They care more for their "right" to choke down a McDonalds burger or a BurgerKing burger than for their constitutional rights. Then they turn around and lecture us (Russia) about our rights and about our "democracy". Pride blinds the foolish.

Then their faith in God was destroyed, until their churches, all tens of thousands of different "branches and denominations" were for the most part little more then Sunday circuses and their televangelists and top protestant mega preachers were more then happy to sell out their souls and flocks to be on the "winning" side of one pseudo Marxist politician or another. Their flocks may complain, but when explained that they would be on the "winning" side, their flocks were ever so quick to reject Christ in hopes for earthly power. Even our Holy Orthodox (Russian Orthodox) churches are scandalously liberalized in America.

The final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama. His speed in the past three months has been truly impressive. His spending and money printing has been a record setting, not just in America’s short history but in the world. If this keeps up for more than another year, and there is no sign that it will not, America at best will resemble the Wiemar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe.

These past two weeks have been the most breath taking of all. First came the announcement of a planned redesign of the American Byzantine tax system, by the very thieves who used it to bankroll their thefts, loses and swindles of hundreds of billions of dollars. These make our Russian oligarchs look little more than ordinary street thugs, in comparison. Yes, the Americans have beat our own thieves in the shear volumes. Should we congratulate them?

These men, of course, are not an elected panel but made up of appointees picked from the very financial oligarchs and their henchmen who are now gorging themselves on trillions of American dollars, in one bailout after another. They are also usurping the rights, duties and powers of the American congress (parliament). Again, congress has put up little more then a whimper to their masters.

Then came Barack Obama’s command that GM’s (General Motor) president step down from leadership of his company. That is correct, dear reader, in the land of "pure" free markets, the American president now has the power, the self given power, to fire CEOs and we can assume other employees of private companies, at will. Come hither, go dither, the centurion commands his minions.

So it should be no surprise that the American president has followed this up with a "bold" move of declaring that he and another group of unelected, chosen stooges will now redesign the entire automotive industry and will even be the guarantee of automobile policies. I am sure that if given the chance, they would happily try and redesign it for the whole of the world, too. Prime Minister Putin, less then two months ago, warned Obama and UK’s Blair, not to follow the path to Marxism, it only leads to disaster. Apparently, even though we suffered 70 years of this Western sponsored horror show, we know nothing, as foolish, drunken Russians, so let our "wise" Anglo-Saxon fools find out the folly of their own pride.

Again, the American public has taken this with barely a whimper…but a "freeman" whimper.

So, should it be any surprise to discover that the Democratically controlled Congress of America is working on passing a new regulation that would give the American Treasury department the power to set "fair" maximum salaries, evaluate performance and control how private companies give out pay raises and bonuses? Senator Barney Franks, a social pervert basking in his homosexuality (of course, amongst the modern, enlightened American societal norm, as well as that of the general West, homosexuality is not only not a looked down upon life choice, but is often praised as a virtue) and his Marxist enlightenment, has led this effort. He stresses that this only affects companies that receive government monies, but it is retroactive and taken to a logical extreme, this would include any company or industry that has ever received a tax break or incentive.

The Russian owners of American companies and industries should look thoughtfully at this and the option of closing their facilities down and fleeing the land of the Red as fast as possible. In other words, divest while there is still value left.

The proud American will go down into his slavery with out a fight, beating his chest and proclaiming to the world, how free he really is. The world will only snicker.

Stanislav Mishin

Eligibility remains focus of Supremes’ conferences

Dispute posted on docket twice after Electoral College votes in
Posted: December 26, 2008 10:40 pm Eastern, © 2008 WorldNetDaily

A second conference has been posted on the docket for the U.S. Supreme Court over the issue of Barack Obama’s eligibility to occupy the White House, this one scheduled a week after Congress is to review the Electoral College vote tabulation.

The latest issue posted is a request for an injunction on the election results pending the resolution of a petition for a writ of certiorari filed by attorney Philip J. Berg, a case that is docketed for a similar conference among the justices on Jan. 9.

Berg’s original case raises questions about Obama’s eligibility and his injunction request first was filed early in December. It was submitted to and rejected by two different justices before it came before Justice Antonin Scalia on Dec. 18. Then just before Christmas the docket was updated to reflect that the motion had been "distributed for conference of January 16, 2009."

On Berg’s Obama Crimes.org website, he said Congress is scheduled to hear the Electoral College results on Jan. 8. Then on Jan. 9 there’s the conference scheduled on Berg’s case itself, with the injunction issue to be addressed a week later.

WND has reported Berg’s case, one of the first legal challenges to Obama’s eligibility to reach the Supreme Court, alleges he cannot constitutionally be inaugurated.

"I know that Mr. Obama is not a constitutionally qualified natural born citizen and is ineligible to assume the office of president of the United States," Berg said in a statement on his ObamaCrimes.com website.

"Obama knows he is not ‘natural born’ as he knows where he was born and he knows he was adopted in Indonesia; Obama is an attorney, Harvard Law grad who taught Constitutional law; Obama knows his candidacy is the largest ‘hoax’ attempted on the citizens of the United States in over 200 years; Obama places our Constitution in a ‘crisis’ situation; and Obama is in a situation where he can be blackmailed by leaders around the world who know Obama is not qualified," Berg’s statement continued.

"The Supreme Court has listed the case of Berg vs. Obama for ‘conference’ on January 9," the website said.

"I am appalled that the main stream media continues to ignore this issue as we are headed to a ‘Constitution Crisis,’" Berg wrote. "There is nothing more important than our U.S. Constitution and it must be enforced. I am concerned that our courts have not yet decided to look into the merits of our allegations."

WND previously reported on a case brought by Cort Wrotnowski. It fell by the wayside when the justices heard about it in conference but refused to give it a further hearing. That was the same fate handed to a case brought by Leo Donofrio. Both challenged Obama on essentially the same issue: allegations that dual citizenship based on a father who was a British subject and a mother who was an American minor disqualified him for office.

Where’s the proof Barack Obama was born in the U.S. or that he fulfills the "natural-born American" clause in the Constitution? If you still want to see it, join more than 190,000 others and sign up now!

The high court previously turned down a request from Berg to stop the Electoral College from selecting the 44th president until Obama documents his eligibility for the office.

As WND has reported, more than a dozen lawsuits have been filed over Obama’s eligibility to assume the office of the president, many have been dismissed, while others remain pending.

The cases, in various ways, have alleged Obama does not meet the "natural born citizen" clause of the U.S. Constitution, Article 2, Section 1, which reads, "No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President."

Some of the legal challenges have alleged Obama was not born in Hawaii, as he insists, but in Kenya. Obama’s American mother, the suits contend, was too young at the time of his birth to confer American citizenship to her son under the law at the time.

Other challenges have focused on Obama’s citizenship through his father, a Kenyan subject to the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom at the time of his birth, thus making him a dual citizen. Such cases contend the framers of the Constitution excluded dual citizens from qualifying as natural born.

Several details of Obama’s past have added twists to the question of his eligibility and citizenship, including his family’s move to Indonesia when he was a child, his travel to Pakistan in the ’80s when such travel was forbidden to American citizens and conflicting reports from Obama’s family about his place of birth.

A partial listing and status update for several of the cases surrounding Obama’s eligibility to serve as president is below:

* Philip J. Berg, a Pennsylvania Democrat, demanded that the courts verify Obama’s original birth certificate and other documents proving his American citizenship. Supreme Court conferences on the case and its motions are scheduled Jan. 9 and 16.

* Leo Donofrio of New Jersey filed a lawsuit claiming Obama’s dual citizenship disqualified him from serving as president. His case was considered in conference by the U.S. Supreme Court but denied a full hearing.

* Cort Wrotnowski filed suit against Connecticut’s secretary of state, making a similar argument to Donofrio. His case was considered in conference by the U.S. Supreme Court, but was denied a full hearing.

* Former presidential candidate Alan Keyes headlines a list of people filing a suit in California, in a case handled by the United States Justice Foundation, that asks the secretary of state to refuse to allow the state’s 55 Electoral College votes to be cast in the 2008 presidential election until Obama verifies his eligibility to hold the office. The case is pending, and lawyers are seeking the public’s support.

* Chicago attorney Andy Martin sought legal action requiring Hawaii Gov. Linda Lingle to release Obama’s vital statistics record. The case was dismissed by Hawaii Circuit Court Judge Bert Ayabe.

* Lt. Col. Donald Sullivan sought a temporary restraining order to stop the Electoral College vote in North Carolina until Barack Obama’s eligibility could be confirmed, alleging doubt about Obama’s citizenship. His case was denied.

* In Ohio, David M. Neal sued to force the secretary of state to request documents from the Federal Elections Commission, the Democratic National Committee, the Ohio Democratic Party and Obama to show the presidential candidate was born in Hawaii. The case was denied.

* In Washington state, Steven Marquis sued the secretary of state seeking a determination on Obama’s citizenship. The case was denied.

* In Georgia, Rev. Tom Terry asked the state Supreme Court to authenticate Obama’s birth certificate. His request for an injuction against Georgia’s secretary of state was denied by Georgia Superior Court Judge Jerry W. Baxter.

* California attorney Orly Taitz also has brought a complaint alleging Obama is not a "natural born" citizen and has written an open letter to the Supreme Court asking for the issue to be resolved.

Last month, WND reported the worries over a "constitutional crisis" that could be looming over the issue of Obama’s citizenship.

"Should Senator Obama be discovered, after he takes office, to be ineligible for the Office of President of the United States of America and, thereby, his election declared void," argues the Alan Keyes case pending in California, "Americans will suffer irreparable harm in that (a) usurper will be sitting as the President of the United States, and none of the treaties, laws, or executive orders signed by him will be valid or legal."

With such high stakes potentially at risk, WND earlier launched a letter campaign to contact Electoral College members and urge them to review the controversy.

That followed a campaign that sent more than 60,000 letters by overnight delivery to the U.S. Supreme Court when one case contesting Obama’s eligibility for the Oval Office was pending.

A separate petition, already signed by more than 190,000 also is ongoing asking authorities in the election to seek proof Obama was born in the U.S. or that he fulfills the "natural-born American" clause in the Constitution.

WND senior reporter Jerome Corsi had gone to both Kenya and Hawaii prior to the election to investigate issues surrounding Obama’s birth. But his research and discoveries only raised more questions.

The biggest question was why, if a Hawaii birth certificate exists as his campaign has stated, Obama hasn’t simply ordered it made available to settle the rumors. The image his campaign posted online has been rejected by critics since it is a "certification of live birth," not a birth certificate, and under Hawaii law at the time such certifications were given to parents of children born outside the state.

The governor’s office in Hawaii said there is a valid certificate but rejected requests for access and left ambiguous its origin: Does the certificate on file with the Department of Health indicate a Hawaii birth or was it generated after the Obama family registered a Kenyan birth in Hawaii?

Obama’s half-sister, Maya Soetoro, has named two different Hawaii hospitals where Obama could have been born. There have been other allegations that Obama actually was born in Kenya during a time when his father was a British subject. At one point a Kenyan ambassador said Obama’s birthplace in Kenya already was being recognized.