Hmm, they back Zelaya, but Niger’s President has gone too far?
We are so screwed.
The durn Chinese will start colonizing Africa one of these years.
PS - Go to youtube and look up “hitler nigerian email”
parsy, who is not related to Nigerian Royals
does this !@%^&*#@$! idiot have any clue what the!@#$&*(&%$#@! he is doing? i swear his foreign policy ideas are just stupid. it’s like they put several option on a dart board and just throw a dart when something comes up. i am really starting to hate this !@#$^&*(*^%#@! okay i feel better now.
Obama meddling again.
Why is it that democrat presidents always want to involve our troops in wars in Africa..where we have no strategic or national security interests?
I think this headline is exceptionally racist.
I thought 0bowdown supported leaders undermining the rule of law? He seemed to be supporting that in Iran and he came right out and said so about Zelaya.
Will Obama make up his mind?
Niger's main opposition leader, Mahamadou Issoufou, the runner-up to Tandja in elections in 1999 and 2004, was briefly detained on Tuesday after calling for the military to disobey orders.
Uhhhh, that's almost exactly what Zelaya did. Slightly different actions but it's a different country.
Is Zer0 still snorting coke or what?
Obama? Rule of law? Hahahahaha.
Niger is where Joe Wilson sipped tea and the opposition appears to be a socialist (though sometimes foreign political parties’ names are confusing).
Its clear that Zaleya of Hondoras contributed far more to Obozo’s Campaign Fund than the jerk from Nigeria did! Whats unfair about that?
On 25 May 2009, the Constitutional Court, made up of appointed judges, released a ruling that any referendum to create a new constitution would be unconstitutional, and further would be a violation of the oath the president had taken on the Koran (a serious matter in Niger, which is overwhelmingly Muslim). [emphasis mine]
I think this administration doesn’t quite know what the hell is going on.
And not a damn thing to say about the nutjobs hanging people in Iran.
He’s moving fast after his major scew-up on Honduras before the press notices that our President came out last week favoring the concept of Presidency-for-Life in Latin America.
Because national leaders can only get away with that sort of thing if they're supplying the State department with cocaine.
Since I don’t trust Obie, I’m going with the Niger leader on this one... without seeing any details
Pot, meet Kettle.
I’ll bet Mamadou Tandja has a birth certificate.
What a confusing foreign policy agenda there is in Washington nowadays? Does it change daily?
Obama is undermining the rule of law right here in the U.S.. His plan is to destroy property rights, capitalism, and freedom. His various violations are not just due to inexperience or incompetence, they are premeditated.
Hey, Obama, remember we shouldn’t be “meddling” in the affairs of foreign governments. So what if some leader decides to murder millions of his own citizens (Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, etal). It is none of our business to be meddling because it’s up to the citizens of those countries to fix their own problems. So no more moral support for victims of oppression please. It’s none of our business if other countries are ruled by despots and encourage their youth to hate the west. I mean it’s not like they’ll crash airliners into our skyscrapers killing thousands in the effort. (smirk)
Ah, heck... whatcha expect?!
BO and his cronies know — and care — as much about the constitutions or laws of other countries as he does of our own constitution...
The dude’s just a frickin’ moron!
The White House is underming the rule of law???
Because if he was a communist, the administration would be backing his efforts.
Mr. Pot, meet Mr. Kettle.
By 2016 at the latest, it will happen here.
By then we will have been destroyed via the provisions in th climate control law so that nobody notices.
And this is different from appointing numerous czars in what way?
The mindset of the current administration (and the state department always) is pretty transparent. No collectivist left behind.
In Honduras, the guy trying to subvert the constitution in order to run for an illicit additional term is an avowed Marxist with close ties to Hugo Chavez - his party is in good standing with Socialist International. Obviously the current US administration supports the wannabe usurper.
In Niger, the guy trying to subvert the constitution in order to run for an illicit additional term is a pro-market reformer who slashed the nation’s external public debt by cutting government spending. Tandja’s main opposition party is some “worker’s party” affiliated with the Socialist International, and it was previously behind imprisoning Tandja (as a leader of the peaceful political opposition) when they ruled Niger several years ago, having captured power in a violent coup). Obviously the current US administration supports the political opposition, and not the wanna usurper.
(though, I cannot understand why Tandja does not simply just step down after his term ends and allow the current PM (Seyni Oumarou, who supports Tandja) to run for president while Tandja transparently provides “counsel”).
sounds like meddling to me...
White House Nigers actions worrisome.
Lots of racists out there it seems.
“Niger leader undermining rule of law - White House”
“U.S. ‘leader’ undermining rule of law without birth certificate”
I hear Prince Manfred, 332nd in line the throne of Liechtenstein, uses Brasso on his royal ring. Watch for “statement of concern” by 0bama in 5..4..3..2..
The U.S. government should stop backing the dictator wannabe, Zelaya.
“Niger leader undermining rule of law - White House”
Kenyan in White House undermining rule of law.
There, I fixed it.
Niger President Mamadou Tandja
Obama's policy of 'selective meddling' in action again.
Scratched off of Obama's selective meddling list are: Iran, Syria, Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Saudi Arabia, Libya, Vietnam, Red China, Russia, .......& on & on
Somebody tell that Reuters editor you can’t call a black man that, even if you misspell it.
Tandja responded to the rejection by Niger's highest court of his plan to seek at least another three years in power by sacking the judges and naming a new Cabinet.By contrast, in Honduras, a would-be dictator was lawfully removed by that country's supreme court, and its order was carried out by the military -- and the Obamanation objected. After the lawful Kenyan elections, Obama campaigned for his bloodthirsty Moslem murderer of a cousin.
0bama is oh-so-willing to interject himself into the internal matters of Honduras and Niger, but somehow giving vocal support to the Iranian freedom movement is “meddling?”
Oh, zer0. You’re not fooling us.