Posted on 08/04/2010 11:23:30 AM PDT by Nachum
The Obama administration faced an embarrassing diplomatic blunder today after it was forced to pull a warning about racism in Spain - just as the First Lady arrived in the country for a summer holiday. Staff at the U.S. State Department removed the contentious advice to travellers, which included the phrase 'racist prejudices could lead to the arrest of Afro-Americans who travel to Spain,' on Monday. The First Lady landed in the Costa del Sol this morning for a break with her youngest daughter Sasha, nine.
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The list, ping
Lol...now we know why birthday boy sent her...
African-Americans with 30 Secret Service agents should be alright. Why visit a bunch of racists who have replaced the French as champion surrender monkeys.
P.S. You don't go on a grueling trip for a break...You go to your room with a good book.....
I swear that Obama has a whole department for “Quick and Stupid over reaction”
wht does she need a break from? BO?
How many wide-bodies besides Air Force 2 and how many transports to haul the ground vehicles were required for yet another vacation? Who's paying for it -- no need to ask of course.
Why all the way to Spain. Why?
Costa del crime? The south of Spain has battled a reputation of gangsters and corruption
Oh.. it's a Chicago thing. Never mind.
I guess the lifted the ban on Anglos in any Black neighborhood in the USA, too, right?
Moron PC Libs.
Obama and this administration is just obsessed with race.
It is completely Assinine and a real danger to those who are in fact discriminated against.
At some point the rest of us are going to raise an eyebrow the next time racism or bigotry is called and that will be all we do.
Yawn.
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