Posted on 02/11/2017 2:03:21 AM PST by blueplum
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A former prime minister who holds dual Somali-U.S. citizenship was elected Somalia's president on Wednesday, declaring a new "era of unity" as he took on the daunting task of bringing the long-chaotic country its first fully functioning central government in a quarter-century.
[snip]Thousands of jubilant Somalis poured into the streets, chanting the new president's name as cheering soldiers fired into the air. "Somalia will be another Somalia soon," said Ahmed Ali, a police officer celebrating in the crowd.
[snip]The new president represents a generation of Somalis scattered abroad by conflict who cautiously have begun to return to help their homeland recover. Most of the candidates in the election held dual citizenship. Farmajo, who is in his mid-50s and holds degrees from the State University of New York in Buffalo, was prime minister for eight months before leaving the post in 2011.
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Golda Meir was a US citizen and Prime Minister of Israel.
Awesome, all the ones here should return immediately and begin the process of building up their country.
Trump could offer free airfare and a bag lunch, that would work for me.
Does this mean that we will have to send the Marines to rescue him when things go bad?
And make Somali the 58th state? Let CNN rescue him, they know the beaches well.
We can blame the media and Congress for the silence, lies, and non-vetting; also Romney, McCain, GOPe, and voter fraud for Obama’s election. But that’s the price our nation had to pay in order to get Trump.
Anyone know if he’s leftist or conservative?
No doubt. What irony that Trump forced Obama to manufacture a birth certificate claiming he was birthed upon US soil... does not matter, because his so called daddy was never a US citizen.
Isn’t that cute. Somalia tries its own little Barack Obama.....only here’s the thing, Somalia....the scam only works if it is a Somali elected President in the United States, not the other way around....what a bunch of doofs.
The prognosis isn’t good. Most of the foreign peace keepers are pulling out and El Shabab is going to take over. So even more refugees are on the way.
Mohammad Farah Aidid’s son, Hussein Aidid, was a Marine. We already sent him to Somalia. He took over as warlord of the Habar Gidir when daddy got killed.
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Is this the first time a US citizen has been elected president of another country?
In 1893, Sanford B. Dole became the President of Hawaii, in a coup.
I 1836, Sam Houston was elected President of the Repubic of Texas.
There may be others.
We should pray for his success. We have many Somalis who would and should return home because they do not assimilate into our society.
AND GET THIS: He traveled back and forth from Texas to the Sudan on YOUR
tax dollars. Refugees travel to their homelands paid by your tax dollars is mandated
under current immigration law in our country......applies to all Muslim refugees.
The father campaigned, promising an avalanche of US foreign aid to
Muslim Sudan, if elected. Father is second left holding bottle.
Anyone know if he’s leftist ....He’s Muslim. All said.
If the right people were running them, they should be importing rather than exporting refugees.
Adamskus of Lithuania was a two-term President of his country after spending approx 30 years working as an administrator for the EPA in Chicago. He got elected by the Lithuanians because of his promise to forge close ties with the West, particular the USA whose government he knew quite well having been a US citizen and longtime bureaucrat, manager, and then director.
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