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02 November 2008

The Audacity of Goat

Besides Ndege, other religious figures in the area have pulled for an Obama victory as well.

At Kit Mikayi, a sacrificial rock shrine 20 miles from Kisumu, about a dozen people have visited on the senator's behalf, according to Jennifer Okot, an elderly villager who lives near the shrine.

Customarily, those seeking large blessings sacrifice a goat by swinging it by its legs so that its head and neck are bludgeoned against a large rock in a naturally occurring enclosure between two massive boulders that serves as the shrine's sanctuary.

The goat's demise incurs the blessings of the rock shrine's god, said Caroline Odhiambo, a 24-year-old who tends to the shrine.
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UPDATE: Manifesto destiny
"Bill Ayers is more than Obama's ghost writer; he is Obama's speech writer."
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