Posted on 03/20/2011 7:10:11 PM PDT by YankeeReb
As U.S. and British air strikes and cruise missiles pounded Muammar Gaddafi's Libyan defences today, President Barack Obama was on a sightseeing tour of Brazil's famed City of God slum.
He was also due to visit Rio de Janeiro's iconic Christ the Redeemer hilltop statue as the biggest military intervention in the Arab world since the Iraq invasion entered its second day.
The President's wife Michelle and daughters joined him on the five-day visit to Latin America prompting the trip to be branded a 'vacation' by right-wingers.
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The White House has justified the tour as an opportunity for boosting U.S. exports and to help create American jobs, which are both considered key to his 2012 re-election chances.
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With crises rocking the Middle East and pushing up oil prices, the U.S. is taking a keen interest in the deep-sea oil reserves that Brazil is starting to tap off the Rio coast.
In keeping with his 'no-drama Obama' image, the White House wants to avoid any sense the president is being held hostage by events or unable to tend to other crucial business.
U.S. and Brazilian officials and business leaders are due to hold meetings today to discuss investment opportunities around the oil development and an expected infrastructure boom arising from Rio's hosting of the Olympics.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
freshly-painted backdrop. How nice.
Watta pansy.
22 months to go until Sarah Palin is inauguarated.
Pass it down.
Dirt, thugs, guns, killings, crime, wretched poor, smells, poor people...
no, nobama, the Destroyer, needs a freshly painted backdrop and clean smiling kids.
what public relations BS. Potemkin village???>
Ha...0bambi looks like Fn John (vietnam) Kerry without the grace
He’s just doing his “slumming” in luxury!/s;)
Ah, Brasil! Captivating vacationers for 500 years. Powdery white-sand beaches lined with palm trees stretch out for more than 4,500 miles along a deep blue Atlantic Ocean. Music-filled metropolises and enchanting colonial towns are scattered along the coast line, while dazzling sights of a unique variety flavor the inland. Visiting red-rock canyons, crystal-clear rivers, the Amazon, the Pantanal, Iguaçu Falls, and Carnaval Brasil are just a few ways to spend sun-drenched days while vacationing in old Brasil! What a great place to visit!
However, if you are the president of the U.S. while Japan’s nukes are melting down, and while Saudi Arabia is at war with Iran over Bahrain, and while your country is launching missiles at a sovereign nation without Congressional approval when the president has no constitutional authority to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation, its a really bad idea, classless, and in very poor taste to travel to Brazil with your family for a week of rest and relaxation.
Hillary’s commercial said, “It’s 3:00am and your children are asleep. There’s a phone in the White House, and it’s ringing. Something is happening in the world. Your vote will decide who answers that call. Whether someone knows the world’s leaders, knows the military, someone tested and ready to lead. It’s 3am and your children are safe and asleep. Who do you want answering the phone?”
Little did Hillary or the rest of his voters know that Soetoro was just going to let the phone ring and ring and ring.
When Obama...
When obama smiles at you
he’s off to Rio!
De Janeiro, my-oh me- oh!
When the world...
When the world is fire..
It’s off to Rio..
De Janeiro, my-oh me- oh!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kgq1g-2cQ54
(god I wish I had the talent to whip up a video...where is Jib-jab when you really need them)
It's all about positioning oneself to create buffers between oneself and whatever you know will inevitably bring home ugly pictures or otherwise put a bitter taste in people mouth. You want to be associated with the good pictures not the bad pictures. Simple-
Let Defense Secretary Gates tell the public about cuts on the Zumwald, missile defense, F22, FCS.........
Let Holder tell the public that GITMO isn't closing.
Let Sibelius tell the public about a more politically correct term to describe the so called “death panels” which indeed did happen.
Take credit and be there when political capital is to be made. Distance yourself from those events, themes and pictures than will subtract from your perception.
Remember- People vote based on name recognition and a “gut feeling.”
22 months...can’t wait for this kenyan klown to finally GTFO
Slums????
Those aren’t slums they’re Obama’s Model Cities Program.
Hmm why did the kenyan pick Brazil?
That picture looks like she just found herself downwind from a bad smell.....Just saying.
From your lips to Gods ears.
Brazils massive slums might be in our future.
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