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Posted on 12/30/2010 2:11:22 PM PST by ColdOne
Lanny J Davis, a lawyer who used to work for Bill Clinton, has resigned from his job advising Mr Gbagbo, claiming that the president had stopped taking his calls, and refused one from the US president
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Good for him. I would too.
“Respected around the world unlike George W Bush” /MegaGigaDrippingSarc
ROTFLMAO...
I wonder if Mr Gbagbo has thought of claiming he was born in Hawaii and running for public office in the U. S.
He was probably U. S. educated to hate us. Isn’t that the most important thing?
At least he has Barry’s number.
Who cares about this little loser?
He will run out of cash soon enough, and the crooked military will revolt against him, likely taking power themselves, voiding the “constitution”, and setting up a “Government for the National Salvation of the Revolution” or whatever the hell they usually string together to mask that they are now an official dictatorship.
If anything we need to be wary that our own African dictator isn’t taking notes.
Why did you post so little? You do know - don’t you - that you can post up to 300 words in an excerpt?
The only call I want from Bambi is the one where he tells me that I get some ‘Obama money’.
He will run out of cash soon enough, and the crooked military will revolt against him, likely taking power themselves, voiding the “constitution”, and setting up a “Government for the National Salvation of the Revolution” or whatever the hell they usually string together to mask that they are now an official dictatorship.
For a moment there, I thought you were referring to Obama.
Restoring America’s honor.
Okay, I was wrong. He went to college in France. That should more than qualify him to hate the West.
I haven’t really kept up with events in the Ivory Coast, but the initial trouble was caused when Muslims in the North, some of them from across the border, tried to take over the country a number of years ago.
Alassane Ouattara is evidently a MUSLIM. And it should not surprise us that the Muslim-dominated UN favors him. Or that Obama favors him.
So, the current incumbent may or may not be a corrupt crook, but I suspect that he is a hell of a lot better than the Muslim alternative.
The UN has been in the Ivory Coast for years, shilling for the Muslims.
C’mon President Gbagbo, time to let someone else have a chance raping the economy and committing humanitarian outrages... you’ve had your turn.
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BBC News story identifying Alassane Ouatarra as a “Muslim outsider”:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/954870.stm
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Ivory Coast president refuses phone call from Barack Obama
The incumbent president of Ivory Coast is hardening his resistance to international pressure to stand down, even refusing to take a phone call from Barack Obama.
Laurent Gbagbo, Ivory Coast’s president Photo: AP By Aislinn Laing, Johannesburg 5:49PM GMT 30 Dec 2010
Laurent Gbagbo, who is widely viewed as having lost a recent election, is refusing to leave office despite attempts to persuade him from West African leaders and others in the broader international community.
Lanny J Davis, a lawyer who used to work for Bill Clinton, has resigned from his job advising Mr Gbagbo, claiming that the president had stopped taking his calls, and refused one from the US president.
Mr Davis said he had repeatedly tried to set up a phone conversation between Mr Gbagbo and Mr Obama which would have given the Ivorian “options for a peaceful resolution, that would avoid further bloodshed and be in the best interests of his country”.
“Unfortunately, the decision was made in Abidjan not to allow President Obama’s call to be put through to Mr Gbagbo, despite my repeated objections to that decision,” he wrote in his resignation letter, which was seen by CNN.
Mr Davis said he would continue to push for a peaceful resolution in the former French colony “but for the reasons expressed above I will no longer be able to do so as a representative of your government”.
On Thursday there was a gathering sense of imminent bloodshed in the country. Youssoufou Bamba, the new Ivory Coast Ambassador to the UN who has been appointed by Alassane Ouattara, Mr Gbagbo’s rival, said his country was “on the brink of genocide”.
Francis Deng, the UN’s special adviser on genocide prevention, said allegations that the Abidjan homes of Mr Gbagbo’s opponents “had been marked to identify their ethnicity were extremely worrying”.
Meanwhile, Mr Gbagbo’s Youth Minister called on followers to seize the Golf Hotel where Mr Ouattara and Prime Minister Guillaume Soro are operating a ghost government, protected by 800 UN peacekeepers.
Charles Ble Goude was quoted by a pro-Gbagbo newspaper as saying that Mr Ouattara and Mr Soro have until Saturday to leave.
“From January 1, I, Charles Ble Goude and the youth of Ivory Coast are going to liberate the Golf Hotel with our bare hands,” he told a cheering crowd of hardline supporters in Yopougon.
Anne Ouluto, Mr Ouattara’s spokesman, said Mr Ble Goude was aiming to “replay the scenario of 2004”, when his Young Patriot supporters marched on a hotel defended by French troops and provoked clashes in which at least 50 demonstrators were killed.
The election victory of Mr Ouattara, Mr Gbagbo’s rival, was endorsed by the international community but Mr Gbagbo said his lead in the polls was fraudulent and has clung to power.
Attempts by West African leaders to persuade him to step down have been met with stonewalling and, with their threat of military action if he does not, fears of major clashes are growing.
Alain Le Roy, the head of the United Nations force, accused Gbagbo’s state media of “inciting hatred” against UN troops, claiming they were arming and transporting Mr Ouattara’s supporters.
“They know that the United Nations will have no choice but to protect the president and to protect the president’s election victory, so it’s provocation. It’s a pretext to create an incident,” she said
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hehehehe does that help?
oh, I thought you were talking about 0bama
Frankly, I’m happy to see the little ‘Rat brown noser Lanny Davis hit a rough patch. If there are two Clinton-clingons that really push my OFF button, it’s Lanny Davis and Bob Beckel. And for some reason beyond my powers of comprehension, Sean Hannity can’t seem to get ENOUGH of Beckel! It gives me brain cramps!
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