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Obama: Brazil's democracy an example to Arab world
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution / The Associated Press ^ | March 20, 2011 | Jim Kuhnhenn

Posted on 03/20/2011 1:47:27 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

RIO DE JANEIRO — As U.S. warplanes pounded faraway Libya, President Barack Obama praised Brazil's transition from dictatorship to democracy as a model for the Arab world where decades of stability enforced by strongmen is giving way to an uncertain but potentially brighter future.

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He said those protesters showed how a popular revolt could produce a thriving democracy. And without specifically mentioning the military action he authorized just a day ago in Libya, the president drew a connection to the events there and throughout the Middle East.....

(Excerpt) Read more at ajc.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Military/Veterans; Politics; Travel
KEYWORDS: barrysriovacation; brazil; libya; obama
Excuse me: Isn't Brazil's current president a communist?
1 posted on 03/20/2011 1:47:31 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It is a democracy..if you count the anti-Obama protesters who wanted to kick the kenyan out of Brazil.


2 posted on 03/20/2011 1:48:51 PM PDT by max americana
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Brazil is a commie dictator but I can understand his love for it.

Pray for America


3 posted on 03/20/2011 1:49:44 PM PDT by bray (Hey Country Club, hold your noses this election!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

A much better example than burkas.

4 posted on 03/20/2011 1:50:26 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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"Excuse me: Isn't Brazil's current president a communist?"

Plus she is a retired terrorist.

5 posted on 03/20/2011 1:51:57 PM PDT by Truth29
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To: Paleo Conservative

C’mon, that has to be propaganda. It can’t be Brazil, they have tops on ;)


6 posted on 03/20/2011 2:07:13 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (The Tree of Liberty did not grow from an ACORN!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Really, Mr President? Brazil is an example to the Arab world only? How about you spend a few moments studying what has led to its strong economic growth, Mr President.

Important steps taken since the 1990s toward fiscal sustainability, as well as measures taken to liberalize and open the economy, have significantly boosted the country’s competitiveness fundamentals, providing a better environment for private-sector development.[19]

Just a thought there, Mr President.

7 posted on 03/20/2011 2:16:14 PM PDT by Robwin
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What a moron and telling these people we will buy their oil??? We have our own if that Punk gets out of the way.


8 posted on 03/20/2011 2:21:08 PM PDT by Cheetahcat ( November 4 2008 ,A date which will live in Infamy.)
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To: Paleo Conservative

I think the islamists might object to such beauty, they like their women covered head to toe. Their boys on the other hand, they might like in those outifts.


9 posted on 03/20/2011 2:52:14 PM PDT by milwguy
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To: Truth29; Lurker; hiredhand

Not to worry....Erkel Mugabe is inside his blue cone of silence aka SCIF Tent pitched inside his hotel room when playing his war games on his Wii !

http://www.kgoam810.com/rssItem.asp?feedid=112&itemid=29646782


10 posted on 03/20/2011 2:53:12 PM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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Excuse me: Isn't Brazil's current president a communist?

If not.....a real good impersonation...........

:}

11 posted on 03/20/2011 2:57:04 PM PDT by AwesomePossum (I have never looked this forward to a November II........)
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12 posted on 03/20/2011 3:06:27 PM PDT by Bean Counter (Stout Hearts!I)
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To: Squantos
Snort. I'm sure that there are all kinds of security features in that tent to block signals, but it makes Obama look like Qaddafi with the Wal Mart version of a tent instead of Qadaffi’s finery.
13 posted on 03/20/2011 3:06:55 PM PDT by Truth29
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Tall and tan and young and lovely
The girl from Ipenema goes walking
And when she passes
Each one she passes goes ‘ah’.”


14 posted on 03/20/2011 7:33:37 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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Astrud Gilberto and Stan Getz: THE GIRL FROM IPANEMA - 1964 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJkxFhFRFDA


15 posted on 03/20/2011 7:55:41 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet ("You cannot invade the US There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass." Yamamoto)
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To: Las Vegas Ron; Paleo Conservative

Topless and nude sunbathing is actually banned in most of Brazil.


16 posted on 03/21/2011 6:46:40 PM PDT by Clemenza (Remember our Korean War Veterans)
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