Posted on 06/09/2011 2:00:19 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Barack Obama has come under fire for extending a formal invitation to a shamed African dictator who has ruthlessly plundered billions of dollars from his own country.
The U.S. President will today have a coveted private meeting with President Ali Bongo of Gabon in the Oval Office despite his appalling track record.
Bongo’s family has ruled the impoverished African nation with an iron fist for five decades and have used its oil riches to fund a life of outrageous luxury. Meanwhile one third of people in Gabon live on less than $2 a day and thousands starve to death each year or are forced to pick through garbage to find food.
Critics have pointed out that Gabon, with a population of 1.5 million, is the third-largest oil producer in sub-Saharan Africa.
They claim that the only reason Mr Obama has agreed to the meeting is that he wants to curry favour with an ally to secure America’s fuel supplies - regardless of who it is.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
“So, what’s the problem? Damned naysayers. They’ve got $2 a day to live on, and garbage to eat. Geez.”
His plan: to import that to America. So far, he’s on track.
The idea that Obama is a “friend of poor people” is about the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.
Exactly what I was thinking. What African country with a “dictator” is anything BUT a hell-hole? Why is Africa such a basket case? It’s not just race, because there are places like Lybia that are just as corrupt.
Ham-handed government?
That ... 'person' .... has permanently soiled the presidency with his overt contempt of the office he holds, the United States of America, we the people, and everything we as a nation stand for. And that vile anti-American ...'wife' ... of his is no better.
I don't believe in burning books or 'erasing' history. But in this case every mention of those two need to be scrubbed clean from our books, all documents, and all papers when they get booted in 2012. (like Pharaoh did with Moses)
Then, when my grandkids have kids they can tell them, 'Yes, there was a period of four years when we did not have a President. Your Great-Grandfather said it was like a Bad Dream. But everyone rejoiced when they woke up and 'it' was over.'
Anyone catch the new South Park the other night?
If you did, Obama is the crapping duck.
Thanks for the heads up!
Gabonese President Ali Bongo Ondimba (right) with his wife Sylvia at a State function. FILE | AFRICA REVIEW |
Who Wants to Marry a Millionnaire? :’)
/bingo
(or maybe /bongo)
Utterly nauseating.
Not that France has a monopoly on playing Machiavelli in Africa: Herman Cohen, Clinton’s assistant secretary of state for Africa, who was so busy in Rwanda in 1994, today has a multi-million contract to tart up the image of Mugabe. Cohen has also had contracts to promote Zaire’s Mobutu, Gabon’s Omar Bongo (whose government the state department reports is guilty of a routine use of torture), and Liberia’s Charles Taylor - an adept in the use of child soldiers and the lopping off of hands, legs, ears and lips.
—————————— “Disturbing article about Rwanda, France, UN, Belgium, Annan, and Clinton ,” by RW Johnson, UCSB , Thursday June 24, 2001
Omar Bongo hired as his lobbyists Pierre Salinger and...
...Jacqueline [Wilson] G...
who was formerly married to Joe Wilson, former Ambassador to Gabon
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