Barack goes "Home"

Senator Barack Obama is touring Africa to bring attention to the Aids epidemic in Africa, meet with African leaders and re-connect with his father's Kenyan homeland. He got a rousing reception in Kenya; apparantly Kenyans are as hungry for inspiring leaders as Americans are. Obama is also taking the trip because he is on the Senate subcommittee for African affairs. Might he have also chosen a far off place to look statesman-like for a certain election in 2008?