Did someone say bongo?
Posted on 06/16/2009 4:26:57 AM PDT by Loyalist
LIBREVILLE (AFP) - Dozens of people jeered French President Nicolas Sarkozy as he arrived at the funeral of Gabon's President Omar Bongo Ondimba on Tuesday.
Security guards quickly formed a cordon around Sarkozy as he went into the presidential palace to join other leaders from French-speaking Africa at the funeral for Bongo, who led his oil-rich nation for 41 years.
Several hundred people were allowed into the courtyard to watch leaders arriving and some applauded Sarkozy but boos soon took over. Dozens of people hurled insults such as "We don't want you -- leave!" at the French president.
One man in the crowd told AFP: "You French, you come here to eat Gabon. All the presidents who have come to this palace have left again with their pockets full and then you criticise us."
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Why did he jeer at it? Answer: he didn't and the headline writer needs to get a new job.
I’m very sorry to hear that Gabon’s President Omar Bongo Ondimba has passed...
...because now the U.S. has the president with the goofiest name.
Sarko should've replied "That's what I plan to do, just after this event is over. And we won't be doing any refugee admittance or foreign aid anymore either."
Did someone say bongo?
LOL
He should have brought his hot wife.
They wouldn’t have booed her.
stoked-up rage against colonialism that spews it’s bitter venom for decades hence (the same reason Obama keeps flipping the bird to the Brits)
Sarko basically thinks Africans are a bunch of losers. He’s said as much several times. Instead of complaining, Africans could attempt to do something that could be interpreted as winning. One mustn’t forget that his party did very well in the European elections. Africans should remember that.
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